Topic: Access to balcony? – FLAT CHAT

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17/09/2013 at 9:21 pm #9042 Reply | Quote
ongoingissue
Our balcony has some tiling issues which has resulted in leaks to the units below. This has been going on for years and We have always cooperated with access for inspections, quotes and minor repairs. The body corporate arranged testing for persistent leakage, which indicated removing and replacing some tiles. They then went ahead and arranged quotes for retiling our whole balcony.

at the AGM, the decision was made to retile the whole balcony. This was not our preferred option but we were outvoted and that is fine.

Our issue is access to the balcony. The balcony is almost a wrap around of our whole unit. The project is large and would take a minimum of a fortnight. Providing internal access would mean opening up our home for this entire period with the consequent mess also of concrete etc in every room ( due to the Layout, every room opens onto the balcony). We have a baby who has been sick for the last two months, and we both have jobs. Our request is that access be arranged externally. this would mean a scissor lift, we are on the second floor. Are we allowed to insist on this?

we are in NSW
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