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I live in an eleven year old six-unit block in NSW with HWS’s for each unit located externally to each.
The systems have timber screening around them and recently my system needed replacing. The only way to get the old one out and the new in was to remove a side from the screening.
As I now want to make the side into a gate to ease any future issues like this I asked the Strata Manager whose responsibility was the screening and he said it was mine.
I ask the question here because we recently had the building painted and all the screening for mine and the other units was included in that with no questions.
How does this Lot/Common Property thing work?
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shedsrus – good pseudonym, and the answer to general question about the workings of Lot/Common Property is “in mysterious ways”.
The answer to your specific question however is a little simpler, in that if there is no Special By-Law stating differently on the subject, then if the hotwater heater screen is entirely freestanding and on your Property then it’s your responsibility, and if it’s on or attached to Common Property (such as to a perimeter wall of your Lot) then it’s the Owners Corporation’s (O/C) responsibility.
But, here comes one of those mysterious bits….. even if the screen is the O/C’s responsibility and you want to modify it and the O/C agrees, then you may go ahead and do that, but still at your expense.
So depending upon how often you anticipate replacing your hotwater service, it may be prudent to just leave the screen as it is.