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In my apartment building, there are the general rubbish bins, for rubbish.
But lately I have noticed, tradesman from different companies who come to the building to renovate owner’s apartments eg Bathroom and kitchen renovations etc, are dumping the renovation rubbish into the general rubbish bins, and unsealed too eg the dust, and wood, and stone etc. I thought tradespeople if there doing things like guttering of a Unit, have to take the rubbish away or set-up a rubbish skip that they rent. Not dump the rubbish in the common property rubbish bins, that the residents use, and it’s not even in rubbish bins, so you often get a big waft of building site dust when you open the rubbish bins. I don’t think that should be allowed or is not allowed in most Building’s By-laws.
The tradesman would have to get rubbish skips, or take there rubbish away to dispense off.
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This becomes an issue when the council refuses to clear building rubble and/or the there is not enough room for residents to place their own refuse into the bins. In this case, the lot owner should be informed that the extraordinary refuse removal fee will be levied to their account.
Surveillance video will pin-point the culprit if there are more than one renovation happening in the building.
All buildings – especially those of a “renovatable” age should have a comprehensive renovations by-law which states, among other things, that there has to be a written agreement on hours of work, noisy work, delivery of materials and disposal of rubbish.
Builders will do whatever it takes to save money. The unit owner will go a long with this. That’s why ECs and Owners Corps have to think about these things and act on them before their blocks are turned into building sites.
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This can also be a problem when tenants move out of a property. All their unwanted appliances, clothing and household “junk” gets dumped into garbage bins, and furniture is left lying around the common property.
Even new tenants moving in can generate a large volume of packaging from their new furniture and appliances.
Unless the offenders are caught in the act, it is difficult to recoup the clean-up costs.
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