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1. Plumbing that was originally located in the ceiling space of a block of units that failed and was replaced / repaired with a pipe running under the garage slab and some time later has failed again. Who pays for the repair?
My understanding is that pipes that run through common property are the responsibility of the OC and presumably once relocated are still an OC responsibility.
2. 2. Car parking/garaging if there is a minor or significant leak into the garage space due to a failure of the building construction/enclosure is it the responsibility of the “owner of the space”(garage space or their Owners Corporation) to fix or make reasonably water tight or that of the body corporate???
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Both of these questions have the same answer. To undertstand, you have to consider a “lot” as anything within the (usually) six-sided box formed by the wall ceiling and floor of the lot. The walls ceiling and floor are common property – the airspace inside, and anything contained in it, is lot property. And anything within common property is the responsibility of the owners corp.
So, on the face of it and unless special circumstances prevail, the pipe in the floor of the garage, and its roof an walls, if they are common property, are the responsibility of the Owners Corporation.
We can’t tell you for certain that they are because your strata plan and by-laws may be different – but they probably are.
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