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Some more details are needed.
Is it just your apartment that’s affected? Is it a new apartment (meaning it’s still under builder’s warranty)?
If it’s just your apartment and the warranty has lapsed then I agree with kiwipaul.
But our OC has had similar problems where many apartments were affected and the building should have been under warranty.
It can be a complex matter to get genuine building defects fixed – it shouldn’t be, but it was for us. But your case sounds critical and the OC should at least try temporary remedies. Have they done that? We did just that but eventually had to pay to repair all the defects ourselves due to the useless building warranties in Victoria. We tried to do repairs as fast as possible – but it was very easy, especially for non-resident owners, to just demand things like “claim against the builder” or ‘take legal action” or “get more quotes” etc etc. It really took some time. Then of course we had to raise the funds …