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Jimmy-T
Keymaster

    If the leaking has stopped because the tap has been turned off then the problem is fixed.

    I’m afraid I have to disagree.  Laundries are, by definition, places where there’s a lot of water going around.  It may have been a leaking tap on this occasion, next time it could be an overflowing sink or a burst waching machine hosepipe.  It’s a flaw in common property and the owners corp is obliged to fix it (unless it was caused by the owner renovating).

    A new development in Sydney has just been halted and all the bathrooms re-waterproofed and retiled at a cost of, I’m told, $1million, because of the potential damage that can be caused and exacerbated by faulty waterproofing.

    You’re right that probably there won’t be a recurrence.  But when it comes to waterproofing, “probably” butters no parsnips.

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