Balcony balustrade

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  • 18/03/2014 at 11:01 pm #9412 Reply | Quote
    alinka
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      Hello

      could you kindly advice me, if the OC is obliged to change the hight of the balcony balustrade, because one of the owners is saying that the hight doesn’t comply with the building code.

      All balconies in the building are 900mm and he is asking the OC should change his balcony hight to the standard of 1000mm. Part of the balcony has glass and he is also complaining that despite it is toughened glass, it has only 5mm instead of 6mm thickness.

      He is saying, in case something happens the OC will be responsible, because we knew that it doesn’t comply with the building standard.

      5 years ago, when we did some waterproofing on some of the balconies, we were advised that despite it doesn’t comply with the present standard, we are not obliged to rise the hight of the balustrades.

      Could you please advise, if for an unexpected reason anything should happen, will the OC be responsible? Also OH&S report done 2009, stated that the balconies are fine, only the hight is not up to the current standard. The report also stated, no action needs to be taken.

      This particular owner is saying, he is worried about the hight And therefore worried about the safety. Our suspicion is, he is going to sell and would like increase the value of his unit.

      Please advise.

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