Reply To: Leak from my flat damaged ceiling below – who pays?
More information is needed on the source and cause of ‘your big water leak’. If it was an OC responsibility, then they can lodge an insurance claim. I assume they…
Reply To: Cleaning & Gardening Maintenance Blues
It cuts both ways and understanding the situation in-depth helps find a better response. We’ve had a bloke do our place for many years. He bought the run off a…
Reply To: Victoria: A shambolic state of strata chaos
Another interesting VIC problem which appeared on residents forum “We Live Here” a few months ago. They reported that 10 of the City buildings with curtain glass cladding have flammable…
Victoria: A shambolic state of strata chaos
How bad are things in Victorian strata? As you will read in this article, the removal of flammable cladding is revealing building structures that are rotting from the inside out.…
Ziggy gets stardust as a top ten pet name
It’s that time of year again. Our friends at Pet Insurance Australia have issued a list of the top pet names trending in 2022. With some all-time favourites topping the…
Ziggy gets stardust as a top ten pet name
It’s that time of year again. Our friends at Pet Insurance Australia have issued a list of the top pet names trending in 2022. With some all-time favo[See the full…
Rainwater from exterior wall crack damaging bedroom
Hi there, I have a had a few headaches with the exterior wall of the property and looking for advice on some potential structural issues. I am a first time…
Podcast: Trouble with the Hub is TLI – too little info
Are you feeling under-exposed and ill-informed? That may be because the much-vaunted NSW strata data Hub doesn’t tell anyone who doesn’t already know stuff very much about your apartment blocks…
Confusion rules: Design and Building Act explained
When it came to tightening quality control of building work, it was always likely that the new NSW Design and Building and Practitioners Act would have unintended consequences. The Act…
Podcast: Flooring flaws exposed in reno bodge
There’s a little bit of everything in this week’s podcast. We start with a story about how people who either ignore or don’t know by-laws and regulations (not to mention…
Reply To: What can the Maintenance Fund pay for?
Here’s what Section 79 0f the NSW Act says: The Admin fund would cover “recurrent expenses” which would include “such regular expenses as insurance, water charges, electricity charges, carpet cleaning,…
Reply To: What’s the point of NCAT orders if they are just ignored?
Glad to help. (1) On the matter of insurance, decide what period of time you believe the strata manager and/or committee members were engaged in shenanigans that cost the owners…