Perth and Kinross Council hopes to make the lives of these dwelling in properties with frequent areas a lot simpler with a brand new app.
The free-to-download Shared Repairs app goals to make it simpler for personal owners to organise shared repairs in communal zones, resembling entrance methods.
The app, developed by PKC companions at Novoville, permits customers to create a ‘digital tenement’ which connects homeowners to handle repairs and upkeep all inside the app.
Points needing restore or upkeep can then be reported to fellow shared tenement homeowners, and quotes and contractors could be discovered and employed immediately by the app.
House owners can use an in-built voting system to pick their most popular contractor.
House owners will pay their share of the associated fee immediately by the app, quite than one proprietor having to co-ordinate these funds.
The app is free to obtain from each the App Retailer and Google Play, however comes with a two per cent additional price chargeable on the fee stage to contractors at completion of a profitable restore or upkeep venture.
The additional price is used to facilitate the fee to the contractors by the app and is added onto the bill whole.
The thought to make use of expertise to make it simpler for homeowners to deal with shared repairs was born from the Scottish Authorities’s CivTech Accelerator programme.
Housing and social wellbeing committee convener Councillor Tom McEwan stated: “There are flats throughout Perth and Kinross in determined want of repairs to frequent areas, which have been stalled for years due to the difficulties in bringing collectively all of the totally different homeowners concerned.
“I’m happy that the council has seemed for a brand new modern answer to that age outdated downside.
“Along with our Lacking Shares Scheme, which helps folks discover different homeowners and might even assist with funding, the Shared Repairs app will make it a lot simpler for homeowners to take care of and enhance their properties.”
Louis Daillencourt from Novoville stated: “As a rustic, we have to do a greater job taking care of our home constructed setting.
“It’s not simply because our buildings look nice and are a part of our heritage: it’s additionally much more price efficient to take care of buildings than to restore them.
“We're very blissful that Perth and Kinross Council acquired in contact with us to make the Shared Repairs app obtainable to residents there.
“The council already gives nice service with their lacking share group, and it’s nice to have the ability to help them for the advantage of everybody within the space.
“At Novoville Shared Repairs, our purpose is easy: present a digital place the place all of your restore and upkeep works could be progressed sooner, safer, and in a extra handy means than ever earlier than.
“We’re grateful for Perth and Kinross Council for supporting this imaginative and prescient and dealing with us to lift consciousness about it.”