Topic: Big holes in our waterpoofing plans

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11/12/2025 at 6:06 pm #82298 Reply | Quote
Strata Ken
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NSW has adopted a policy that all remediation has to be done to building code, and that means that the costs have become severely inflated. As an example we have had an engineer look at the problems in the building. One of the ones found was waterproofing issues with the showers in about 30 bathrooms.

Quotes from builders were obtained for the whole of building and the cost for each bathroom that needed remediation was about $40,000. These are small bathrooms. It turns out that we they are no longer able to do just a shower, the whole bathroom must be retiled, which means removing and reinstalling fixtures. Now I expect we could get better quotes but it is still going to be a lot.

One option is to remove that from the tender and then do it in the ways we did previously, which was either shower retile at about $5,000 or Megaseal at $1200. Is this still allowed? Would the problem be that we need to do a lot so that makes it a major renovation and one at a time makes it OK?

Has there been any pushback on the new regulations? There are going to be a lot of very unhappy people. Is there any evidence that the changes will actually enhance building life in a cost-effective way?
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