@kiwipaul said:
You could submit a motion to the OC to have a tempering valve fitted centrally by the OC but this would require a Special Resolution as it is considered an improvement (75% in favor).
This does not apply in NSW.
Firstly, it’s a simple upgrade of existing infrastructure and secondly, while it could be a general item added in the agenda of a general meeting, it is probably well within the remit of a strata committee to organise something that is relatively low cost and to all owners’ benefit.
Even if they were overstepping their responsibilities, who’s going to stop them? They are, after all, merely bringing the infrastructure up to code.
The law may be different in Queensland but if every minor upgrade of common property requires a special resolution, the wheels of strata would grind even more slowly here than they already do.
I can see the committee taking this to a general meeting if it turned out to be expensive but they would not need a special resolution.