Owners and Obligations
To help you navigate your way through the minefield of common property ownership, we have identified the most frequently discussed points and placed these into an alphabetical list of common ownership topics. To find out more, please click on the relevant topic and you will be redirected to the relevant section of the Under One Roof website where you will hopefully find the answers to any questions you may have.
Buildings and Repairs
The repair and maintenance of your property is vital to ensure its longevity and value is retained. We appreciate that when being informed of works required to your property you may be unsure as to where these works are, what the quotations refer to and ultimately how they affect you. To assist you in understanding the make up of your property and to show you why and how maintenance is undertaken, we have listed the most frequently discussed maintenance points and placed these into an alphabetical list of building parts and repair processes.
To find out more, please click on the relevant topic and you will be redirected to the relevant section of the Under One Roof website where you will hopefully find the answers to any questions you may have.
Homeowners guide to common ownership
Access to your flat
Acoustic Engineers
Action on antisocial behaviour
Alterations and improvements
Antisocial tenants
Appealing decisions
Architects
B
Below tolerable standard (BTS)
Building contracts
Buying a flat
Buying and selling
C
Changing your Title Deeds
Clerk of works
Closing orders
Common building insurance
Common repairs
Community mediation
Contact your Council
Contacting owners
Council help with antisocial behaviour
Cracks
D
Damp
Dealing with damage
Dealing with noise
Defending a small claim
Difficult conversations
DIY building surveys
Dormer windows – who pays
E
Effective meetings
Energy and Heating
Enforcing a judgement
Enforcing repairs yourself
Estate landscaping
F
Finding a trades firm
Finding the money
Floors and Ceilings – Modern
G
Garden maintenance
Get professional help
Get your building surveyed every 5 years
Getting advice
Getting quotes
H
Health and safety
How the Council enforces repair
How the Council recovers costs
How to find your Title Deeds
I
Identify required work
Individual repairs
Inform owners and make decisions
Informal changes to shares paid
Is the noise excessive?
J
Joint owners
K
Keeping accounts
Keeping common areas clean and tidy
Know your neighbours
Know your responsibilities
L
Legal Glossary
Listed building and conservation area
M
Maintain your gutters
Maintenance or improvement
Maintenance plans
Missing shares
Mutual repairs
N
Notice of Potential Liability for Costs
O
Organising repairs
Other powers to enforce repairs
Owners Association Sample Constitution
Owners’ Associations
Owners’ meetings
P
Paying for repairs
Pipes and leaks
Plumbing Leaksv
Police help with antisocial behaviour
Precast Concrete and System Building
Private landlords
Problems with Title Deeds
Problems with your builder
Property Factor’s Code of Practice
Property Factors (Managers)
Providing evidence
Public health nuisance/abatement
Q
Quantity surveyors
R
Repairing standard for private landlords
Repairs and flat sales
Rules that apply to all flats
S
Self factoring
Selling your flat
Shares where flats have been enlarged or split
Sharing costs according to Tenements Act
Sharing repair costs
Solicitors
Stair Tread Cracks
Structural Engineers
Surveyors
T
Taking legal action
The loft – who owns it?
Tracing absentee owners
Trade Associations in Scotland
Typical Ways Costs Are Shared
V
Voting
W
What are Title Deeds
What to look for in Title Deeds
What is “responsibilty”
What is Anti Social Behaviour
Whose agreement do we need?
Work notice
Work on site
Y
Your building’s rules checklist
Homeowners guide to repair and maintenance
Asbestos
Asphalt flat roofs
B
Balconies
Bay and oriel windows
Below ground level
Bitumen felt flat roofs
Bressumer and other large beams(O&O)
C
Cast iron gutters (rhones)
Central valley double roofs
Chimneys
Cladding (O&O)
Close and common stair
Close/entrance Floor
Close (Stair) Wall
Cracks
D
Dormer window repairs
Drainage
Drainpipes
E
External Brick and Block walls
Eternal Stone Wall Features
External Walls
F
Flashings
Flat roofs
Floors and ceilings
Front and back close doors
G
Gable walls
I
Internal walls
J
Joists
L
Lead
Lead roofs
Lintels
Liquid applied flat roof
Lofts
Low rise and high rise flats
M
Metal flat roof finishes
Modern estates
Moulded gutters
Mullions
Mutual and gable chimneys
N
Non-traditional wall types
O
Older brick and render flats
P
Paint removal from stone/masonry
Parapet Gutters
Party walls
Pointing
R
Rear walls
Render and harling
Roofs
Rot and insects
Ridges and Hips
S
Services
Single membrane flat roof finishes
Skews
Skylights and cupolas
Slate roofs
Stairs
Stone defects
Stone gutters
Stone tenements and villas
Stone tenement structure
T
Tiled roofs
Timber kit construction
W
Wallhead chimneys
Windows
