Reply To: Roof sarking – Common Property or Owner’s responsibility?

Thank you for your reply, Jimmy-T.

I am in a Strata of four two-storey Units – two at the front of the property and two at the back. The Units are joined by a shared wall and the rooves of each pair of Units are shared, although the rear roof slope dips down a metre from the Unit next door because they are built on a slope. The internal roof space of each Unit is separated internally by the wall. Their are no by-laws relating specifically to the roofing.

When y residence was advertised for sale it was listed as a Unit. Townhouse or Unit – is there a way to define this? If a Townhouse is free-standing then my property is a Unit.

Given the above details can I expect the internal roof sarking to be common property?

On a side-bar, is there any comeback on the Building Inspector for not including the damaged sarking in his report? The photos he provided in his report prove that he would have been aware of it but chose not to mention it. This is relevant to anything that is ‘overlooked’ in a building inspection report.