#14153
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Flatchatter

    500Z – Your Strata manager is half right.

    If the bathroom floor tiles are those originally laid when the building was constructed, and they’re leaking, then that’s a Common Property repair and the responsibility of the Owners Corporation (O/C).

    If however you want to remove the tiles as part of an overall renovation, then before you do anything, you need to provide your O/C with written advice of your proposal, including all materials to be used, tradespeople and their work times, and seek the O/C’s written consent to those works.

    In these latter circumstances it is customary for an O/C’s consent to incorporate a provision that makes the responsibility for the ongoing maintenance and repair of the renovated area/s within your bathroom a matter for the Owner from time to time of your Lot (Unit).

    There is no requirement for a Special By-Law unless your O/C wishes to formalise a blanket approval with standard conditions to enable all Lot Owners to renovate the bathrooms within their Lots, and if that’s their desire then the O/C should pay to draft and register that document; of course, as a member of that O/C you would pay your share via your normal Levies.  

    Hope that helps!