#51867
nixjet
Flatchatter

    I have an update.

    After reading all the entries on this topic I decided to take a similar course of action and read what our obligations actually are and then scrutinise everything the current Fire company was recommending and threatening to breach us on.

    Through our strata manager I was able to get them to take a revised fire safety schedule to council that complied with our pre-existing fire safety systems and made some more subtle adjustments to meet modern expectations.

    We also applied for an extension to lodge the AFSS to allow us to do the work.

    The upshot is instead of a $36k bill we will have an $11k bill and we have 6 months extra to complete.

    We won’t need a special levy for this either.

    Lesson learned – scrutinise and question everything and try to do it from an informed position, read up. Engage positively with your strata manager, you’re paying them after all.