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Treads are not just a safety issues. When we replaced our carpet under similar circumstances a few years ago, we added bull-nose treads to save wear on the carpet edges when residents hauled step trolleys up and down the stairs.
Sorry – I meant my initial statement – the Owners Corporation was only responsible for hard-wired (powered) alarms within a Lot IF they were connected to a fire control panel or interconnected.
Our strata manager is telling us that if they are monitored centrally, then they are the Owners Corporation responsibility to repair and replace. If they are simply powered from the mains power with a Lot, then they are the Lot Owners responsibility.
You are saying that if they are connected to the mains power, but not otherwise monitored, they are still the Owners Corporation responsibility?
@Lady Penelope said:
The extract below is from the Strataman site:
Repair & Maintenance
Under current legislation, the Owners Corporation is responsible for repairing AND maintaining smoke alarms IF the smoke alarms are hard-wired to the lot’s electricity supply with a backup battery OR connected to a common fire board or panel.
I understood that, in NSW, the Owners Corporation was only responsible for hard-wired alarms within a Lot IF they were connected to a fire control panel or interconnected. Otherwise, testing and replacement was the Lot Owners responsibility.
Our Strata Manager, in a document on their webpage, that
If the smoke detectors are stand alone and are not connected to a fire board in the building then they are
Owners Responsibility, otherwise they are Owners Corporation.The current regulation (Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000, Part 9 Division 7A Clause 186A) talks about the Owner of a Lot within a strata building being responsible for the installation and maintenance of an alarm.
Is this the correct interpretation?