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Flatchatter saves $25k on fire safety ‘blackmail’

  • 11/09/2020
  • Author Jimmy-T

A Flatchatter has just saved his strata scheme $25,000 – 70 per cent of their fire safety inspection bill – after responding to what they felt were threats and blackmail…

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    Don’t be alarmed – there’s a burnt toast by-law

    • 25/08/2020
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Fire alarms can go off for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with fire. It could be smoke from seriously burnt toast meeting an over sensitive alarm,…

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      Owners win battle over Biowood cladding

      • 12/08/2020
      • Author Jimmy-T

      Apartment owners battling to have combustible cladding replaced on their buildings have won a landmark legal victory – giving hope to the thousands more facing similar dangers, writes Sue Williams.…

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        Call for ban on balcony barbies … but not here

        • 04/08/2020
        • Author Jimmy-T

        The heat has been turned up on balcony barbecues as a cause of fires in apartments … but in a part of the world where you might least expect it.…

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          New fire safety regs on strata webinar agenda

          • 21/05/2020
          • Author Jimmy-T

          You guys are getting into the technology, big time. Apparently more than 200 strata residents took part in the Owners Corporation Network (OCN) webinar on Airbnb and short term letting…

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            Burning issue – OCN seminar on new fire regs

            • 15/02/2020
            • Author Jimmy-T

            There are few phrases that send more of a chill thorough the hearts of strata owners than the words “fire safety”. Whether you’re in an old building badly in need…

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              It’s Airbn-BS as families are ‘priced out by red tape’

              • 26/11/2019
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Even in this crazy, mixed-up, high speed, disrupted world in which we live, some things never change. One of them, sadly, is Airbnb’s determination to tug at our heartstrings by…

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                From the Forum: fire regs, air cons and limits on tenant numbers

                • 13/11/2019
                • Author Jimmy-T

                Particularly at this time when half the country seems to be going uip in flames, fire safety seems to be more relevant than ever. So imagine you are in a…

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                  Flammable cladding crisis solved – phoenix it!

                  • 28/09/2019
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  The fire engineer who approved the Neo 200 building in Melbourne – the most recent high-rise cladding fire in Australia – has gone to court to try to have his…

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                    From the Forum: fake grassroots campaign fails to catch fire

                    • 03/09/2019
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    Our post on the short-term letting fire regulations sparked a fiery discussion (oops, sorry!). And that was before we even discovered that Airbnb hosts had already swamped Planning NSW with…

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                      Flat Chat Wrap #39 – Loopholes and pitfalls in new Airbnb regs

                      • 03/09/2019
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      Just when you thought it was safe to dip your toe into the Airbnb discussion, it turns out the proposed new laws are not what they seem. The 180-day cap…

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                        How Fireys may save us from holiday let hell

                        • 16/08/2019
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        The NSW government released their discussion document of the proposed new short-term letting regulations this week and, of course, they make interesting reading. I will be examining the proposal for…

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                          Seven years on from fatal blaze, new mid-rises finally get sprinklers

                          • 30/04/2019
                          • Author Jimmy-T

                          It has taken almost seven years since the fatal fire in the unit block in Bankstown but as of this week, builders in NSW will be required to install automatic…

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                            Smoke alarm and rent rise shocks in Airbnb lets

                            • 30/03/2019
                            • Author Jimmy-T

                            Smoke alarms that either don’t exist or are covered up, higher rents for permanent residents and a new service that helps hosts find somewhere to stay when they are renting…

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                              Flammable cladding – Jimmy T on Sunrise

                              • 22/02/2019
                              • Author Jimmy-T

                              Earlier this month (Feb 2019) there was a second flammable cladding fire on the outside of an apartment block in Melbourne. Flat Chat’s JimmyT went on Weekend Sunrise to argue…

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                                Cladding: It’s your money that the governments are burning

                                • 08/02/2019
                                • Author Jimmy-T

                                There was another cladding fire in Melbourne the other day. It was one of those “accidents waiting to happen” we’ve been hearing about since the horror Grenfell Tower blaze in…

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                                  Small fire, not many dead: Ignorance and racism in Neo200 debate

                                  • 06/02/2019
                                  • Author Jimmy-T

                                  On Wednesday morning I woke up to read a somewhat hysterical story in the Sydney Morning Herald about the latest apartment block fire in Melbourne.  Not only was I appalled…

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                                    Blocks get together to fight crippling cladding bills

                                    • 01/10/2018
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                                    Apartment owners facing bills of as much as $60,000 per unit to fix flammable cladding are being invited to join together in an effort to force developers to foot the…

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