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I am on the other side of the fence. We just bought an apartment and have been denied by the Body Corporate when we asked permission to replace our carpet with timber flooring.
Our body corporate regulations state “a member must not, and must ensure that the occupier of a member’s lot does not – fail to keep the floors of the unit carpeted or otherwise covered insofar as to may be necessary to avoid annoyance to the occupiers of any unit”
Apart from the wording being very confusing, we assumed “otherwise covered” could mean another type of flooring, however have been advised that only carpet will be accepted.
We have reason to believe our upstairs neighbour has timber flooring as we can hear them walking around and we have no neighbours below us, only a carpark.
We do not want to disturb our neighbours or create tension between the other owners, however it would have been nice to have this stated more clearly. It was always our intention to put down timber floors and we even checked the body corporate regulations prior to purchasing the apartment to make sure we could. We obviously did not understand the regulation clearly enough.