You seem to be running around in circles based on 3rd-hand assumptions.
If I were you, I would not be going to a CTTT mediation based on any assumptions, only facts, or you may end up with egg on your face. I’d get all of my ducks (ducts?) in a line first.
@OverIt said:
Thank you Whale and Kangaroo, this is what I also suspected I am so confused, what’s causing what, I have my managing agent who is very trusted and have been using for years not just on this property going out to do an inspection and take multiple photos on top of what is already taken and then we will take this issue and the multitude of other issues that I haven’t even touched on to mediation.
If your property manager is going out to do an inspection, why don’t you go with? Do you live in a different state or something?
You’ve already spent money on an unnecessary electrician. Most people of average competence can flip a switch and hear whether a motor is running and see whether the blades are turning.
Apart from the hankerchief test, a ventilation “expert” ought to have some sort of (non-toxic) smoke machine to see whether (and where) it comes out the other end.
Perhaps you could tell us more about the layout of the exhaust system. It may not be common property. The fact that the OC’s ventilation “expert” recommended that you upgrade suggests that it may be Lot property, otherwise they would have recommended to the OC that they upgrade.
1) Is it a communal system venting into a vertical stack?
2) Is it individual to your Lot venting horizontally to a grill on an outside wall?
I can’t answer your last question.