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If you wanted to be proactive on safety as well as wear – and this is after conducting audits of the buildings here. BCA D2.13(a)(v) is worth a look – and it applies to both carpet and tiles. If a new carpet is going down, we were referred to Specification 7 of the NCC….again, if you want to engage in good practice.
Sydney Water requires each lot in a strata plan to be separately metered.
I think that may have been true quite some years ago. Where it’s impractical (or the shareholders disagree), it doesn’t appear to be the case anymore if you read their plumbing guide. There is one block nearby that went through the conversion in the last couple of years retaining single metering which bears that out. Of course the sprinklers, hydrants, stop valve installations there would have made the cost of a few individual meters petty cash.
SteveBoo said:
The wiring the OC has declined to repair is in a metal conduit embedded in a concrete ceiling (which is also the floor of the unit above, I think).
You might be able to sell them on this by mentioning insurers reduce premiums on rewired buildings!
If it’s an art deco building, with split metal conduit in the ceiling slab – and usually running down the walls too – you could well be looking at vulcanised Indian rubber, single conductor wiring. Even if working fine now, it’s well past it’s use by date.
We still have some remnant in the ceilings here that went out when moisture penetrated recently. It’s better to be proactive on replacing it before it fails I will say.
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