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Hi Everyone,

Thanks for all your responses. Although all the different advice is confusing, it’s been very helpful.

So what I can tell is that under the Fair Trading etc, they will claim that I need to claim my insurance for the damage to my floors.

However, if they have been negligent, I could then take them to court and claim that because of this they need to pay. I’d argue they were negligent- simply because they hired a dodgy contractor and when I told them his report was based on lies etc, they continued arguing with me for several months before a second report was commisioned, causing even more damage to my apartment. (Although taking them to court would cost me even more money)

Also as pointed in another post, this case https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/nsw/NSWSSB/1998/11.html is incredibly interesting and also appears like it’ll be relevant.

Have I missed anything?