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thanks for this
one question though, is it really “a failure to maintain common property” when that was the design of the building (i.e. exterior path higher than interior floors) – which the owner knew when she bought flat, and incidently we didn't as the building inspection we had done for our flat on the top floor, didn't have acces to the inside flat on the ground floor.
in any case, we had conflicting advice about what was causing the damp inside flat 1, but decided on balance of probabilities the high exterior paths was most likely not helping, and so we have rectified this problem.
we also want to put an internal damp course inside, behind the kitchen, but the owner wont agree to this until we agree to pay FULL cost of the repair/replacement of kitchen (quotes range from $6500-7500). it is a small awkward kitchen, and everyone who has looked at it says it would be wasting money to pullout 2 damaged cupboards under the cooktop & sink and replace them – instead they advise a new kitchen. the owner insists she doesn't want to do this though.
it is already 3 yrs since since she first mentioned damp, and now the damage has progressed. it took a while to agree on a course of action and has now stalled again on this point.