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13/02/2019 at 2:45 pm
#35760
I agree with the strata manager.
Carpet is a lot responsibility and neither the OC/BC nor the OC/BC’s insurance company need to pay for its restoration unless the water leak was caused by OC/BC negligence. If the leak was not caused by negligence (eg it was due to a burst pipe) it doesn’t matter that the carpet had to be damaged in order to access and repair the leak.
The lot should be claiming on their own contents insurance.
IMO it would be a brave committee to approve the replacement costs of a 19 year old carpet that the OC/BC is not liable for. But the whole OC/BC could decide to do that at a general meeting.