Reply To: Who pays for Common Property water leak damage?

I see what you mean Jimmy – T and I see what you mean.

Unfortunately, or fortunately (depending how you look at it), our water damage didn’t appear to come from a burst pipe although we can’t be sure, because the Strata Manager never looked into it any further, other than to say to our Rental Managing Agent “if its not dripping its not the OC`s problem” and that we, the Lot Owner, is responsible to pay for any investigation and water damage repairs to our Lot coming from this Common Property wall.

What makes this matter  a real concern is that our entire Lot is located directly under a huge Tiled  Terrace and a number of huge Garden Beds from the Lot above and there appears to be no logical plan in place to replace an ageing waterproof membrane that on this Terrace and in these Garden Boxes, which is now 15 years old and getting to the end of its lifecycle.

Therefore, we suspect the waterproofing memebrane may be the cause of a number of recent water leaks in the building and we are extremely concerned as to the possible damage this is likely to cause to our Lot and it`s rentability in the future.