Dear Sally,
The two maintenance items you mention are not service charges. If you download the specimen budget from the Association you will see these are separate items within the wmc . Service charge is usually things like communal or individual utilities or communal gardening/cleaning/lift servicing/warden costs. General maintenance is not a chargeable service. The basics of service charge is that you must be able to work out what it is from invoices and you can’t make a surplus. You can’t foretell maintenance issues, hence why they are not a service charge.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Clare
Legacy East Almshouse Partnership