Do the real estate companies have a law that forces them to clean buildings at certain intervals? No. Our building has become dirty after not being cleaned for a year and is infested with bird droppings. So I gave ADCP (the real state company handling our building) a call. The person there told me he’d send someone to assess the building. a few days later I gave that person another call, his reply was that the person who came to assess foud that the building does not need cleaning. I can barely look out of my window which has become smitten with dirt and bird droppings. we can’t clean them ourselves because the windown type is the one that open inside out. And its not just the windows anyway, the walls of the building itself are dirty and decorated with bird droppings.
so is there a law that enforces building cleaning for the sake of the ‘city image’? No. If owners want their buildings clean and well maintained, they get a private company to do it. If we don’t keep calling ADCP and fight with them until they find that the dirt on the building is worthy of being cleaned, or if we don’t have an owner that wants the building clean as a private initiative, then buildings will never be cleaned here.
Our building is not in a poverty stricken area (not that those areas don’t deserve being clean), this is in Abu Dhabi downtown, marketed as prime location, 2 bedroom flats in these buildings cost up to 170,000 AED.
But what about the cleaning of the building from the inside? Are there any laws for that? There is no system in these real estate companies that ensures that elevators, stairway halls, and everything gets cleaned. ADCP supplies the ‘security’ guy with detergent containers and is asked to mop the entrance. That’s it. We pay him a bit extra to clean the outside pavement, and he says he’s just doing it for us. Using the stairway hall of our building and any other, is like going into a derelict mansion.
Again, why is all this cleaner in Dubai, in prime areas and non-prime areas?
