Here at Flat Chat we are used to being in the poo over one thing or another but never quite so literally as with this recent inquiry. QUESTION: Are there any rules governing the installation of a macerator. I have a two storey home unit. The only toilet is upstairs. Downstairs in the laundry there [...]

It can be hard enough keeping a lid on bad behavior in your own apartment block but what do you do if the building next door is the problem and their manager doesn’t care? QUESTION: I live in a 1960s apartment block and we are having problems in neighbouring flats, built very closely next door, [...]

When is a by-law not a by-law?  When the Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal decides that it doesn’t really matter, that’s when. Evidence for this is contained in CTTT’s own annual report in which they proudly tell the story of a couple who bought an apartment, then discovered one of their children had a carpet-induced [...]

Here’s an interesting development on the non-smoking front.  Owners in the building in the CBD that won the case banning smoking in an apartment because tobacco fumes were leaking into neighbours homes, are being asked what they think about establishing  non-smoking floors in their building. Now, before anyone gets too hot and bothered, I can’t [...]

In these straitened times, many buildings are looking at ways of saving money.  Some are sensible economies,  other savings are merely penny-pinching and corner cutting that isn’t going to do anyone any good. QUESTION: Our oldish building of 20 units is not a particularly attractive block but it does have a sizeable garden which was [...]