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I have significant mould damage to my furniture and my carpet in my lot.  I am the owner on the ground floor of the duplex scheme and have a timber floor.  The mould is caused by continual water ingress under my lot over a period of five years into the common property sub floor with the resulting   dampness coming up through the timber floor into my lot. The CTTT ordered the OC to rectify the water ingress.  They ordered that a special levy be raised. They also ordered that mould remediation be undertaken in my lot.  The problem is that because of the time it has taken to obtain the order from the CTTT and the time it has taken to obtain the money from the other lot owner, the mould has damaged the furniture by eating into the grain of the wood.  It is quality mahogany furniture and there is white spots all over the furniture and in the grain.  It will not come out. The mould remediator has advised that the furniture will have to be taken away, fumigated and then restored.  The remediator has also told us that the carpet has mould.  It will have to be taken up and replaced.  This is going to be very expensive.  At the moment by order of the CTTT, the duplex strata scheme has a compulsory strata manager who has been ordered to undertake all the orders.  My question is; who pays for the cost of restoring my furniture and the replacement of my carpets?  

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