Are leaking batteries still dangerous after ten years?
I live on the top floor of a high-rise building. When I go up the stairs, I come to a door that leads to the attic. From this room, another door leads out to the flat roof.
This is the first door, which is locked in a special way, although I don't know what this type of locking is called. Below the doorknob is a cube-shaped box that can be slid up and down. When it's up, it's directly below the doorknob, so you can't push it down and open the door. Locked in this position, the box closes the door.
For years, I didn't know what was in the box. Then one day, I came to the box, and the plastic cover was lying on the floor. Someone had removed it. I saw that there were leaking batteries inside. They were probably AA batteries. Unfortunately, I didn't remove the batteries at the time; that was a mistake.
Then, with great difficulty, I managed to get the lid back on, so I put it back on.
To get out onto the roof, I have to grab this small box containing the leaking batteries and push it down. I'm not sure if this is safe, and I'm not sure if I should try opening the box and removing the old batteries.
Now, some of you might be wondering what these batteries are for. I don't really know. It looks like a surveillance camera to me. There are also two small lights on the front of the little box, perhaps motion detectors, which, of course, are no longer flashing.
So is it dangerous to touch this box after ten years, and what will it look like after twenty years, in the future?
Yesterday, I tried to open the box with a knife through the narrow slot, but it didn't work. I'll have to buy a suitable tool.
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The box is an emergency opening (so that you can get to the roof in case of emergency) but then there is an alarm to see who is on the roof.
The part is broken and the batteries do not take risks!
But what do You on the roof when it has to be secured?
I’ve been living here for 30 years and I’ve got a light dome out on the roof. I’m gonna have to get out of there, that’s more beautiful.
First of all, you are not talking about your dome of light, but about an actually secured escape door in the stairwell, which, of course, should not allow everyone to enter the roof. The house administration should repair the lock and replace the batteries.
Second:
No. Even if your apartment has a light dome, you do not have the right to consider and enter the roof as your special property. Flat roofs are usually sensitive. If you walk around them or even put furniture on them, they can be leaked – to the disadvantage of all housers.
Such devices are generally used when there are risk of falling or starving. You have a light dome, but it does not include roofing…….
But you’re right, the twilight plates could also take damage by running around.
The roof was warmed a few years ago. The pebbles do not press on the bitumen, but on the insulating plates. Other people also go out there, for example the chimney sweeper. Then they have installed a lightning dissipation system, and other craftsmen have already done a lot and have walked around without something leaking.
Not exactly, because the pebbles can press through the bitumen board and make the roof skin leak.
In Germany, the cleaning and maintenance of the lighting dome would be in the responsibility of the house administration and thus the owner community – no reason for you to enter the roof.
According to the dialect, I find you rather in Austria or Switzerland, no idea how it is. The house seems rather neglected. Well, I’m gonna push you the thumbs that you don’t have a thick roof skin in the apartment at some point. This is really harmful to health, unlike a few run-out batteries.
To get to my light dome, I have to go through this door, and then through a second, and push the box with the drained batteries down. The box is usually upstairs. That’s what it’s about if there’s a risk of the batteries running out when I push it down. The flat roof has several layers, bitumen, insulation panels, pebbles. I can walk around, there’s nothing happening. Of course, no children should go.
The box has an opening slot, you don’t need violence, just the suitable tool.
You are not authorized to open the box with tools or violence!
Then leave them in; should they have run out, the small amount of acid present has long since been neutralized and the whole is only a corroded dirt dump.
Now you just said that the batteries don’t risk me, then I can leave them in there, right? Or not, that’s my question. As I said, I would have to buy myself a tool to open the box (see my previous question).
Apply latex gloves and remove the defective batteries….
The light dome must also be maintained occasionally, i.e. the hinge must be oiled and the Plexiglas cleaned. In addition, there is an all-round railing at the top, so there is no risk of crashing. The house manager knows about the defective box, but he doesn’t.
That’s what they tell the house administration. They should take care of it.
With the housekeeper, I’m on the foot of the war because they made something unbelievable and then I called the police.