#37459
Sir Humphrey
Strataguru

    The owners corporation’s plumbers should only have done work up to your boundary. If work was needed on the pipes that are beyond your boundary, then the plumber should have stopped or been directed to stop so that the utility provider (in this case Sydney Water) could determine for themselves that the fault lay in the area that was their responsibility. You can easily imagine how a utility could find themselves regularly paying for work that was not really their responsibility if they believed every plumber or proprietor who said the fault lay in their area.

    So, if the OC has paid the plumber for work that may or may not have been your responsibility and it is now too late to prove there was a problem in the utility’s area of responsibility, I suspect you are stuck with paying now.