Formaldehyde detection, long-rent apartment is a little difficult to do

"Nearly a month has passed, formaldehyde detection has not been carried out yet, and various testing conditions have been put forward to delay time. On June 26, Ms. Xu, a citizen of Shenzhen, reluctantly told the Worker's Daily that she freely rented a house through a long-term apartment platform, and lived for two years before she found that the formaldehyde content in the room exceeded the standard. In recent years, "formaldehyde door" has been exposed frequently in long-Rent apartments, and many "formaldehyde rights protection" incidents of tenants have occurred on-line coatingol.com. However, some tenants claim that it is not easy to identify a room as a "formaldehyde room". The intermediary platform sets various requirements for formaldehyde detection, and it is difficult to defend rights because of the heavy "glass door". In May 2017, Miss Xu contracted to rent a room through Free APP. The house is located in Haojinghaoyuan District, Futian District, Shenzhen, and has lived for two years. Recently, new tenants in the adjacent room often feel ill when they move in, which makes Miss Xu have the idea of finding an organization to detect indoor air. Subsequently, Miss Xu found "Shanghai Inter-Sailing Environmental Detection Technology Center" to test room air quality. On June 1, she received a test report issued by the center with CMA National Metrology Certification Mark, which showed that indoor formaldehyde exceeded the standard.

"We did not see the test report of the tenant, and the company did not participate in the whole process of the test, but heard that the tenant oral test was not qualified during the negotiation." Free staff told reporters that such test results could not be recognized by them.

On June 3, I contacted Miss Xu freely and proposed that Shenzhen Institute of Metrology Quality Inspection (hereinafter referred to as the Institute of Metrology) be jointly invited by both parties for testing. However, according to Miss Xu, formaldehyde testing has not yet been implemented. Free side said: "Free has been actively communicating with Ms. Xu, but unfortunately, the two sides did not agree on the testing standards." In Miss Xu's opinion, the so-called detection standard is like setting a "glass door": emptying all personal belongings before testing, opening the air-conditioning and cooling the closed section before testing, and ensuring ventilation for 24 hours before sealing. Miss Xu believes that these requirements not only increase the burden of tenants, but also seriously inconsistent with the actual living environment.

"Pre-conditions do have a great impact on formaldehyde detection results, and different pre-conditions often lead to inconsistent results." Zhu Yicong, a lawyer at Beijing Yingke (Shenzhen) Law Firm, said that it is often difficult for both parties to reach an agreement on the testing institutions, testing methods and testing conclusions, resulting in extra time and litigation costs for safeguarding rights. Miss Xu accepted the relevant test requirements in order to complete the test approved by both sides as soon as possible, but since then she has been unqualified as a metrology institute. Recently, the reporter dialed the Metrology Institute twice, and found that the appointment was very convenient, the schedule was not more than a month, and the fastest time was only two weeks.

Analysis Report on Consumption Complaints in 2018 issued by Shenzhen Consumption Committee shows that the problem of formaldehyde excess in long-Rent apartments has become one of the new hotspots of consumer complaints, with an annual complaint volume of nearly 500. Reporters learned that Shenzhen is currently working on the first national group standard to solve the problem of indoor air pollution in long-Rent apartments. Shenzhen Consumer Committee said that next, the standards will be improved and verified as soon as possible, and strive for an early introduction.