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Pimpri-Chinchwad uses Rainwater Harvesting to Battle Water Woes

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Pimpri-Chinchwad uses Rainwater Harvesting to Battle Water Woes

Summer has brought water woes to a lot of housing societies in Pimpri Chinchwad, which makes citizens spend lakhs of rupees on tankers. One culture in Pimple Saudagar has revealed such wasteful expenditure could be curbed. Roseland Residency executed a rainwater harvesting job on its assumptions and is now reaping the harvest of its foresight. The society is spread across 12 acres.

Chairman Santosh Maskar stated the overall daily need of water presently is 10 to 12 lakh litres, but they get just 70,000 to 80,000 litres every day from PCMC.

“In 2009, we began implementing rainwater harvesting to recharge groundwater so we could draw from the borewells and decrease our reliance on tankers. The pilot project was used in six buildings for Rs 2.5 to Rs 3 lakh. On executing the project, the cost is to Rs 40,000 each construction. We do not require any water tankers in the summertime,” said the chairman.

Rainwater harvesting is a way of collection and storage of rainwater in organic reservoirs or tanks, or the infiltration of surface water to subsurface aquifers (until it’s lost as surface runoff). One way of rainwater harvesting is rooftop harvesting. Together with rooftop harvesting, any surface — plastics, tiles, metal sheets, but not palm or grass foliage — may be used to intercept the flow of rainwater and supply a family with storage and drinking water. Other applications include water for livestock, gardens, and irrigation, etc..

Rainwater harvesting supplies a different water source. In places where water is difficult or expensive to find, rainwater harvesting is a supply of water that is fresh. In developed nations, rainwater is harvested to be utilized as a supply of water as opposed to supply, but the harvesting of rainwater may reduce utilization amounts or a family’s water expenses. Rainwater is safe to consume. Rainwater can also be independent of salinity or pollutants within soil water, raising the value of mobile drinking water accessible when rainwater harvesting is utilized. It may be used for cleaning, washing clothes etc.

The achievement of Roseland Residency could be reproduced by all housing societies. Ashok Shinde, chairman of Kunal Icon housing society, stated, “Our society has 450 apartments and 40-row homes. Each of the four borewells from the society dries up in February, and now we must rely on water tankers to our everyday needs from February to May.”

Anil Deore, secretary of Rosewood Apartment and Condominium co-operative society, stated, “Our society is just three years old. It’s 350 apartments, and we get just 35,000 litres of water every day from PCMC rather than the 1.25 lakh we need. In 2016, we needed to get tankers. We invest Rs 2 lakh a month .”

Both housing societies employed rainwater harvesting facilities in the assumption that water can be yielded by their borewells to recharge groundwater levels, but didn’t gain from it.

Maskar stated they’d assist home societies in Pimple Saudagar to implement rainwater harvesting and prevent the squander of lakhs of rupees on water tankers.

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Introducing Commonfloor Smart Guard Mobile App

Our mission at Commonfloor Groups is to find ways to integrate technology to apartment management. It is a problem that keeps us motivated and hungry to stretch limits. A few months back, we took upon a mission to eliminate entry/exit paper registers and replace them with a slick mobile app. Today, after months of effort and loads of feedback, we are pleased to announce the launch of Commonfloor Smart Guard – a mobile app that eliminates paper registers.

Here is a quick overview of how to use the Smart Guard App.

Step #1: Download the free mobile app from Google Play Store.

                                                                   

Step #2: Enter your city & community name. This is needed for us to uniquely identify which community’s visitor movement you want to track. Click on the Admin Icon to proceed.

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Step #3: Enter admin username & password. This allows you to login and setup the app for your guard to use.

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Step #4: Click on the “Get Started” button on the Home Page. The following screen allows you to send an SMS invite to your security guard.

                                                                      

Step #5: Click on the “Add Guard” button. The guard receives an SMS with his login details.

                                                                     

Voila! In 5 simple steps you are done. From this point the security guard can download the app or you can do it for him/her.

We’ve made it extremely simple to use Commonfloor Smart Guard, that even a security guard can use it easily. A guard simply has to enter the mobile number of the visitor and click on enter or exit.

If a visitor is coming in for the first time, then the security guard has to do a 1-time registration activity.

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Splash through the summers safely through our swimming pool safety tips

Swimming Safety

Accidents by drowning in the swimming pools of apartment complexes is quiet a common occurrences. In fact it was just last week that we reported about a four year child drowning while cycling around the swimming pool of his complex. Swimming pools are a necessity in such high rises as in people’s busy schedules looking for a separate swimming pool outside one’s housing society is simply impossible. So builders make sure that a swimming pool is any which way a part of their plan. However, unfortunately in a bid to meet such rising demands the builders don’t follow the safety norms that must be maintained while building the swimming pools. On the other hand residents are not aware of these rules and they even don’t pay much attention to safety measures that needs to be taken while residents (adults and children alike) are using the pool.

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Be a Smart Resident! Pay your Dues Online

Smart Payments

Making maintenance dues payments could be quite a cumbersome task, as often, due to your busy schedules you either miss the due date or don’t find the person concerned to hand over your cheques or cash amounts.

But it’s time to heave a sigh of relief because now you can pay dues on CommonFloor Groups web/app allowing easy payments, instant receipt generation and peace of mind! We have integrated with leading payment gateways and becoming the defacto channel for housing societies in India, managing more than 20 crores of online payments every year.

How to use CommonFloor Groups Payments to make your maintenance dues payment?

Step 1 :    Log into CommonFloor groups over our web portal or our mobile app and navigate to the ‘Dues’ section.

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Step 2:   Select the Invoice you would like pay (by default all outstanding invoices are selected) and click on ‘Pay Online’ button

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Step 3:   Select your preferred mode of payment  i.e either credit card/debit card, net banking and click on make payment.

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Step 4:   You might have to go through the OTP generation process due to the statutory requirements. Once done,  you get payment confirmation, as well as instant receipt!

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The payment made by you would get credited to your society’s  account “directly”, along with your flat/house details as transaction references. You don’t need to manually update it anywhere.

Ain’t that super simple?

- Team Commonfloor Groups

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4 Tips to Keep in Mind While Buying a Flat

Tips to buy a new house

Easy inflow of cash, much disposable income, higher salaries are some of the reasons why younger working professionals have plans of buying a house and they are even realizing their dreams quiet easily. Also getting loans against their high salaries is quite easy. But is having the required financial strength enough for buying a house? Does money always help you get the best house? Well no not really as there are some other much over reaching concerns that one must keep in mind an take care of before investing in a house. Below are 4 major points listed out by us in an attempt to help you buy your perfect dream abode.

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