Without re – reading every post to check whether it came up earlier the question arises as what this has to do with the EC. If there is currently a by -law requiring carpet or similar then a special resolution at a GM would be required wouldn’t it? If the owner concerned hasn’t requested this via the secretary then all that has happened is that people have talked and maybe written things down.
Someone in the block I reside in recently installed an air -con., partly on common property for which there are detailed minutes from the EC approving it. I checked with the Dept. of Fair Trading and was advised that this is of no consequence i.e. it has been installed with neither consideration or approval of the relevant body, the OC. The clear implication is that adults are presumed to have some basic understanding of the rules in the same way that if you got written approval from your local railway stationmaster to build a shack next to the rail line it would presumably have no standing in law; a reasonable person would expect some higher authority is required.