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The building was built in 1990. The occupant below apparently has an exposed pipe that runs from the ceiling down the side of his bathroom wall. The drips were coming from the area directly next to the pipe and landing in his bathtub. He has panicked, and contacted the strata manager, who has immediately called out emergency plumbers. At this point we knew nothing of the problem and our taps had been dripping (in a minor way) for over a month.
We don’t normally use our bathtub, as we all take showers and this apparently has not been a problem in any way. We do not have a breakdown of costs, but obviously the large amount is because they had to come out twice. My issue is the strata manager never informed us, so obviously we were not home the first time. My other issue is it was never an emergency. A slow drip into a bathtub does not warrant calling out emergency plumbers in my opinion.
I contacted Fair Trading yesterday and they explained the taps are our responsibility, but agreed that we should not be responsible for the whole bill at least.