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SteveBoo said:
The wiring the OC has declined to repair is in a metal conduit embedded in a concrete ceiling (which is also the floor of the unit above, I think).
You might be able to sell them on this by mentioning insurers reduce premiums on rewired buildings!
If it’s an art deco building, with split metal conduit in the ceiling slab – and usually running down the walls too – you could well be looking at vulcanised Indian rubber, single conductor wiring. Even if working fine now, it’s well past it’s use by date.
We still have some remnant in the ceilings here that went out when moisture penetrated recently. It’s better to be proactive on replacing it before it fails I will say.
The OC is keen for this to happen, but they believe all wiring serving only one unit should be replaced by the unit owner. I can see the sense in this: the unit owner has to replace the wiring in the walls; why should their responsibility end where the wire enters the ceiling? But as far as I can tell, this is what the act says, and a unit owner and OC would have to cooperate in and co-finance the full re-wiring of a unit.