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Thanks Jimmy T
We are 1st level in a west facing 7 level block Circa 1970 . There are two 1st level west facing apartments. Below us was an internal entry foyer. Our apartment got pretty warm in hot months and our strata OC had prevented us from installing an A/C as any such installation must be wholly within the lot. We don’t have a balcony for the outdoor unit. We have 20 years here and we had decided we could tolerate the summer heat we were experiencing OK.
About 6 years ago, and despite our protests, the OC went ahead and added to our common property, a front portico. The roof structure is at our lounge-room floor level and projects 3m out front. We have lost the visual of our quite nice front gardens BUT as a consequence of the roof, we now have temperatures at the front of our apartment (which we have logged) on hot days 20 to 30 percent higher than pre portico. So already this summer we have had 50 degrees C, as opposed to other west facing apartments (we have a temperature logger on a 4th floor west facing apartment) reading 40 degrees C. The math changes, – breeze or no breeze etc..
That reading on a day when outside BOM temp was 32 degrees.
The situation heat is now intolerable. Some temperatures recorded last summer were just under 70 degrees C. It is referred to as heat pooling and we have it in spades. Last and the summers before we have had to leave our apartment as health became priority. We know the portico addition is the culprit!
Our SC have been unhelpful. We have updated the temperature loggers and they now post a weekly report of temperatures read every 5 minutes in 3 locations. We now have our proof and will proceed with a claim in the first quarter of 2022.
Long story – but you did ask!