This is an interesting coincidence. We recently obtained orders to have our CP front door replaced. It took me three years in the tribunal and appeal panel. Once we obtained the orders, the committee tried vigorously to convince us not to paint the door, like all of the other doors in the building, but to varnish it. We smelled a rat, as the conflict was hard fought. The wood was not of good quality and we were on a floor with three other doors all painted. We insisted it was painted the same way all of the other doors were painted. We suspect the others owners would have been told we requested the varnish and rejected the paint. Now after several years of seeing a pattern of transference of responsibility this is just another cheeky loophole.
Seriously these guys need to start a hobby like wood work then they can have all the varnish they want.