Forum: Builder’s botch job leaves flat floorless

This is a nightmare that can only happen in strata. The floor in a unit needed fixing and the owners corp employed a builder to do the work

Sadly, they made a poor choice of tradie and the builder made the problem worse. Now an engineer has been sought and meanwhile the apartment is uninhabitable, has been for several months and will be for the foreseeable future because the Owners Corp doesn’t have the funds to fix it.

FYI, the strata insurers are saying it’s a repair, not an incident or accident, and therefore not an insurable event.  The landlord insurance company is even less interested.

As this fiasco trundles on, the owner is losing rent that they can’t afford to miss out on.  So who’s at fault and can the owner claim compensation?  That’s HERE

Elsewhere on the Forum

• Why do I have to pay the strata insurance excess for a claim by the scheme for a problem caused by a fault in common property? That’s HERE.
• Do we really have to regularly check our hot water system for Legionella, as our service provider suggests? That’s HERE.
• UPDATE: Taking the strata scheme to NCAT over refusal to deal with black mould.  That’s HERE.
• UPDATE:  Could water dripping from balcony air-con carry Legionnaire Disease (yes, that again) That’s HERE.
• UPDATE: Strata manager didn’t know about using Notices To Comply to curb parking breaches.  That’s HERE.

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Jimmy-T

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