#12573
struggler
Flatchatter

    Don't know whether you are right in saying you don't need any approval.  There would be common walls involved?  And the floor that the tiles come off, common property?

    By getting approval for anything in a unit from the EC/OC wouldn't you then be “covered” should there be something down the track that causes a problem to the common property of your apartment?

    My first home was a little one bedroom unit.  It had a decrepid kitchen with rotting timber cupboards that I decided, for financial reasons, had to stay until I could afford a new kitchen. That lasted about a week as parts of the timber cupboards came off and into my food.  I rang a builder, he gave me a quote that meant only eating baked beans for 6 months instead of 12.  He said he could start next week.  He pulled out the cupboards before I even thought about permissions/requirements/common property etc.  Two of the four walls in the kitchen were “common”.  I wrote to the managing agent.  I apologised for my oversight and not contacted them/the OC sooner.  I explained the health risk of the cupboards causing me to aske quickly.  All, thankfully was OK.

    Don't forget that permission was needed to even put a nail in a common wall to hang a picture up!  So pulling off cupboards, ripping off tiles?