Generally, owners will pay the maintenance fund when buying a house, so the elevator is broken and the property department will use the maintenance fund to repair it. If the elevator is under warranty, the developer will ask the elevator manufacturer for repair. If the elevator exceeds the warranty period, it shall apply for special residential maintenance funds for elevator maintenance. The housing maintenance fund is used for large and medium-sized repair and renovation projects of the main structure, public parts and public facilities and equipment of the house after the warranty period expires. The main load-bearing structures of houses include foundation, internal and external load-bearing walls, columns, beams, floors and roofs. Public parts refer to outdoor walls, hallways, stairwells, corridors, etc. Public facilities and equipment refer to water supply and drainage pipelines and equipment, power distribution cables and equipment, elevators, public lighting, fire-fighting facilities, green spaces, roads, non-operating parking garages, public cultural and sports facilities and other facilities and equipment used by owners in houses and related supporting areas. The maintenance fund is managed by the Housing Authority, and the application process is complicated.

1, conditions for using maintenance funds; Must inherit, earmarking. You know, the maintenance fund belongs to all owners, so it can only be used for the maintenance of public parts in special communities. After the warranty period expires, public facilities and equipment cannot be used for special purposes such as maintenance, renewal or transformation, nor can they be used for other projects.

2. When the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development promulgated the Law on the Use of Maintenance Funds, it also clearly pointed out that the use place of public maintenance funds must be property warranty and overhaul of public parts.

legal ground

According to Article 281 of the Civil Law, the maintenance fund of the building and its ancillary facilities belongs to the owner. With the consent of the owner, it can be used for local maintenance, renewal and transformation of elevators, roofs, external walls and barrier-free facilities. The collection and use of maintenance funds for buildings and their ancillary facilities shall be announced regularly.

In case of emergency, if the building and its ancillary facilities need to be repaired, the owners' assembly or the owners' committee may apply for the maintenance funds of the building and its ancillary facilities according to law.