Alemania - don't know whereabouts you are in JBR but our sector has an area with slides, swings, etc. I thought there were facilities like this in other sectors too. The older children play on the big communal grassed areas.
Can you not fold your pushchair and keep it in the guest toilet?
My neighbours have a bike and quad bike parked outside of their apartment. I can't tell you how much me and my husband hate it. It clutters up the shared area, takes space and looks ugly. I get that storage is limited, but its the same for all of us. I only buy what I know I can store and would never buy an oversized bike. I know a pushchair is different, but honestly collapsing and opening a pushchair takes about 2 seconds to do and you can easily fit it under a bed or something - mine is in the laundry room along with my daaughter's bike and scooter.
Maybe your flat is different, I don't have any laundry room. I wouldn't mind if neighbours park a bike or stroller outside, it would still be many meters away from our door. If people really need these things every day (which your neighbours probably don't), there's just no other way.
My neighbours have a bike and quad bike parked outside of their apartment. I can't tell you how much me and my husband hate it. It clutters up the shared area, takes space and looks ugly. I get that storage is limited, but its the same for all of us. I only buy what I know I can store and would never buy an oversized bike. I know a pushchair is different, but honestly collapsing and opening a pushchair takes about 2 seconds to do and you can easily fit it under a bed or something - mine is in the laundry room along with my daaughter's bike and scooter.
My stroller was not blocking anything for anyone. Now inside the flat it's blocking the entrance door, because there's no other place to put it in this appartment! There's a difference between storing sofas and stuff and parking a small stroller outside the own appartment door, where nobody except us is walking.
That's perfectly normal. [b'>Most apartment buildings will request you do not store or leave items in the public areas, such as hallways, stairwell [/b'>etc.
It's a hazard to people using those areas, people can block exit areas, especially fire exits. Not saying you would, but others quite possibly will.
We're not allowed to do this in our apartment block, and I also have a pushchair and kids bikes. I just have to fold my pushchair up and store when not using the best I can. The bikes, I just have to leave near the door.
We had a fire alarm in our building a few weeks ago and it was so annoying dodging past all the things people had left in the fire escape. Some people think its a bike shed.
Same in our building last year, give them a month and then put it out there again ;)
Ayzzy it's not a corridor, there's a huge amount of space (as much as a studio appt). I wouldn't mind it if my neighbour had a stroller there near the back door, it's not blocking anything. In fact my next door neighbour threw her OH out about 8 months ago and 2 of his cases are still near her back door :)
I have my little boys bike in the laundry room.
edited by Alismum on 27/01/2013
I think that's what I'm going to do after some time: put it back outside. Having the stroller in the appartment since yesterday. Cannot open 2 doors. The worst thing is that my child is trying to roll it around the flat. I could collapse it, but doing it 3 times a day is irritating. We are only 2 appartments sharing a huge common area. Back in Germany our neighbours even used to have all their shoes outside the door :)) and nobody complained.
The spacious common areas here in JBR could really be made useful for tenants. It just came into my mind recently, that on the whole huge Plaza Level there is not a single free playground for kids. Somewhere in Europe there would be numerous of them on such a vast area where so many people live.
Oh you are right Amelia if there are 5 appts sharing one area it could be a fire hazard.
Our building was notified this time last year with the circular (before the Tamweel fire) and they only checked for about a month after the notice (if that).
Pity they didn't make a storage cupboard for each appt in the communal areas in JBR, there is definitely room for it, the area outside the back door is huge.
Also there doesn't appear to be an area for bikes that I am aware of unlike in our last building in the marina which had an allocated spot for bikes in the underground parking. When my eldest had his bike, I went and asked JBR management where he could park it and they said he could tie it to the rubbish skip in the parking area!!!
OP what about the balcony, could you put it there under a plastic sheet?
<em>edited by Alismum on 27/01/2013</em>
We too are in JBR and it has always been that the management has not allowed tenants to keep things in the common areas, their reason being that it is a safety issue and not one of having items stolen. The directive from Taziz may be in the wake of the Tamweel fire on JLT.
On our side of the building there are only two apartments, but on the other side there are about five with the same size landing as ours and if each of those tenants kept a pushchair, a bicycle or a piece of furniture outside their door, it would certainly be a hazard. They have to apply one rule to the whole of the building.
<em>edited by amelia on 27/01/2013</em>
Same in our building last year, give them a month and then put it out there again ;)
Ayzzy it's not a corridor, there's a huge amount of space (as much as a studio appt). I wouldn't mind it if my neighbour had a stroller there near the back door, it's not blocking anything. In fact my next door neighbour threw her OH out about 8 months ago and 2 of his cases are still near her back door :)
I have my little boys bike in the laundry room.
<em>edited by Alismum on 27/01/2013</em>
I saw many strange things kept in the common areas, like furniture, diving equipment etc. I can understand that these belong to the storage. But a small buggy, which stands by the wall not obstructing any fire equipment or exits and not bothering anyone... These are not the same things. In my flat there's no corridor, so it will stand practically in the living room (2 m away from the dining table), blocking the exit and the WC doors. It's more of a hazard in the flat than outside the door. And I don't have a car. In Germany I never had such problem. People leave buggies either downstairs in the common areas or in a special common room for bikes and strollers.
I don't think someone will come to 34th floor to steal my buggy...
That's perfectly normal. Most apartment buildings will request you do not store or leave items in the public areas, such as hallways, stairwell etc.
It's a hazard to people using those areas, people can block exit areas, especially fire exits. Not saying you would, but others quite possibly will.
We're not allowed to do this in our apartment block, and I also have a pushchair and kids bikes. I just have to fold my pushchair up and store when not using the best I can. The bikes, I just have to leave near the door.
There are warnings hanging everywhere in Bahar 1, that tomorrow Taziz will start removing all items from common areas. I sent Taziz an e-mail asking them, where I should park my stroller, which I use every day, in the flat with no store room and no entrance area. (In my living room, maybe?) I got a very dry, official answer, that according to their "Constitution" (What a word! Is JBR a state already?) nothing is allowed in the common areas. They also offered me to rent a storage from them! For one stroller, used every day!
Do you believe, that our strollers will all really be gone this week? Did you see such warnings in other buildings and clusters?