Co-ownership: Station to the arnak at the insulation, beware of false controllers

False controllers of the insulation of the heating pipes of buildings are trying to convince the co -owners to start work. Their objective: to garner aid, without carrying out the stagger.

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Member of the union council of his condominium, in the Paris region, Damien received a strange visit a few days ago. “An individual rang in my house by claiming to be mandated by the State to achieve a Land controlbut without being able to present me any proving for it ”he relates to Capital. The calorificing consists in isolating the heating and domestic hot water pipes, in the common areas of a condominium, in order to limit heat loss and, therefore, to reduce the energy consumption of the building.

These works are eligible for energy saving certificates (EEC), public aid for energy renovation buildings. Assigned to the craftsman, it allows him to considerably reduce the cost of the work he charges the condominium, or even to cancel it.

An email sent at 4:50 p.m. for control the next day

Loading works, this is undoubtedly what Damien’s visitor intended to offer him after a so-called control of theInsulation of heating and hot water pipese. Works that would have given him entitled to the help of the EEC and that he would never have done. “This man assured me that the condominium trustee had been warned by email of his intervention ”continues Damien. To whom the trustee confirmed having received an email but “The day before, at 4:50 pm”.

A timely time to notify a check -up control visit, was worried about the trustee, also judging the suspicious approach. Especially since the visit did not really have a reason to be, the insulation of the heating and domestic hot water pipes having been carried out only four years ago.

A scam at 80,000 euros

Damien then prays his visitor to leave. Instead of complaining, “He called for his so-called responsible and passed it to me. This man adopted an aggressive tonea little threatening, insisting on the obligation of control ”says Damien. Who does not allow himself to be dismantled and, helped by the guardian of the building, ends up obtaining the false controller that he leaves the premises.

“By inquiring with real controllers of energy renovation work, I learned that the individual in question is good a fraudsterwhich is also used to pretending to be the trustee with co -owners, in order to obtain access to the common areas ”indignant Damien. At least does he have the satisfaction of having thwarted this “Attempted scamWho could have brought big to its author. “We talk about 80,000 eurosanyway”Damien figure, on the basis of the stallifies carried out four years ago.