Your home needs to be maintained while you live in it. Here you can learn more about interior maintenance, what rules apply, and who pays for what.
There are two different schemes for interior maintenance, an A scheme and a B scheme. The vast majority of housing associations operate an A scheme, which obliges you to maintain the home while you live in it. You pay for the work yourself.
Interior maintenance of your home is typically
- Painting of walls and ceilings
- Upholstering
- Floor treatment
Two interior maintenance schemes
You can see in the maintenance regulations adopted by your housing department whether your home is subject to an A or a B scheme. You can find the regulations on your department's website. Contact the Haderslev service center if you are in doubt.
An employee from the real estate office checks, among other things, whether the floor has been properly renovated before a new resident moves into the home.
Scheme A: Your home is in normal condition when you move in.
If your home is covered by an A scheme, it is in what is known as normal condition when you move in.
- You have the maintenance obligation while you live there. This means that you must ensure – and pay for – painting the walls and ceiling, possibly wallpapering, and floor treatment when/if needed.
- When you move out, you must pay for normal repairs so that the home is ready for the next residents, exactly as it was made ready for you before you moved in.
- When you move, you must pay to have your home restored to normal condition. However, for each month you live in the home, the housing department takes over 1% of the obligation to pay. When you have lived in the home for 100 months (8 years and 4 months), it is therefore the housing department that pays for normal renovation when you move out – i.e. painting the ceiling and walls, possibly wallpapering and any necessary cleaning or craftsmen.
- If you have poorly maintained on your home, you are the one who must pay for the repairs, regardless of how long you have lived there. Poorly maintainence on the home covers, for example, wear and tear on floors, holes in doors, lack of cleaning – including behind a stove – or if you have not maintained the home at all while you have lived there, for example by painting continuously. It is the inspector who decides whether you have poorly maintained the home.
B-scheme: Your home is not in normal condition when you move in
If your home is covered by a B scheme, you move into it as is – it is not in a normal condition.
- The home has a maintenance account that you can use to paint walls and ceilings, possibly wallpaper, and treat floors while you live there – when necessary and there is money in the account. This is done by agreement with the property office.
- Please note that the maintenance account closes on the day you terminate your tenancy. If you would like to paint or do similar work afterwards, this will be at your own expense.
You do not have to pay for normal repairs when you move out. - If you have poorly maintained your home, you must always pay for the repairs.
– The amount in the maintenance account
As residents, you help decide at the department meeting how much should be saved for maintenance of the homes in your department. The amount of the maintenance fee depends on the size of the home you live in. You set an amount per m2.
