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  • in reply to: Hosepipes and cleaning of balconies #37254
    cdinoz
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      Thanks!

      Yes, have spoken with my strata manager who has indeed concurred the above.

      We dont have specific strata rules re watering the balcony, he cited the act which outlines that one lot owner must not cause nuisance or hazard and says the strata will stand by that.

      I have spoken to one of my upstairs neighbours, and explained without the need for the strata manager to be involved… so far to good. But another tenant didnt seem to give a crap, so breach warning is being sent.

      I don’t like being the snitch, but I am just getting annoyed at sitting outside having brekky on my balcony and getting “rained on” due to people having a small rain forest in their balconies and water running down constantly.

      in reply to: Walking the Washing Line #17501
      cdinoz
      Flatchatter

        @considerate band fair said:
        Hi All, I believe in addressing both the asthetics as well as the practical and cost saving. What we have in our plan is an outdoor area with clothes lines that have screeenining walls. We also approve of drying of laundry on balconies and courtyards using a clothes horse so long as the height is not above the height of the balcony railing and NEVER is laundry to be hung over balcony railings. I think I have posted this previously. We need to consider first of all the appearance of our plan and property value, we do not wish to appear a shanty town but with increased electricity costs it would be just plain stupid to not dry laundry naturally.

        I believe the Strata Regulations are now changing to reflect this.

        cdinoz, have you checked the bylaws for your plan? Look carefully at the wording you may not actually be in breach!

        Cheers CBF Smile

        I also think the bigger complexes could actually sell “approved” floor standing lines from the building managing offices.

        And in regards to checking the bylaws – yes, I have checked the small print. The actual small print is also on my actual lease contract, which I could probably win from a semantics perspective (and I do love how courts like being pedantic)…. is that our lease and the bylaws constantly talk about “balconies”. 

        Last time I looked outside my apartment, I was on the ground floor, and not entirely sure where my “balcony” hangs from – being on the ground?

        If my lease stated “balcony / courtyard or other outdoor area” – I would agree I may be breaching by hanging washing outside… but as I live with a small “courtyard” and not a “balcony”…. Wink

        Besides, after I had the last letter from the strata company along with a photo of my courtyard, I called the strata and asked for the name of the person who took the photo, as I was wanting to know who the “peeping tom” was, as I was taking the matter to the police.

        Strangely, I haven’t heard anything since then….

        in reply to: Walking the Washing Line #17500
        cdinoz
        Flatchatter

          @Juan Durection said:
          Why not just do as they ask, cdinoz, and stop the action that is offending someone and is against the house rules and which they are asking you to stop? Put your “small clothes horse” inside in some out-of-the-way place. Seems easy enough to me. Keep the tone and value of the building that little bit better.

           

          Prey do tell, in a small apartment – where does this mythical “out of the way place” exist?

          in reply to: Walking the Washing Line #16800
          cdinoz
          Flatchatter

            I live on the ground floor of a 6 storey block, with a small “balcony” (as my tenancy agreement describes, but I’m sure legally is a “courtyard”). 

            We have a small clothes-horse that we put out when the weather is good – no smalls on the thing, is just those big ticket items you just know will shrink in the tumble dryer… jeans, shirts etc etc … No washing dangling over a wall to common land, all washing neatly inside the courtyard.

            Over the past 12 months I have had 3 letters from the Strata Manager with accompanying pics of the drying out clothes.

            Now, someone has to push their camera through the trees and bushes that surround my “ground floor balcony” to take this images. The lst letter (3 months ago) threatened “legal action”.

            Nothing as yet inviting me to mediation (which I think is actually the correct process) – and a letter from the strata manager telling me that the “apartment has a built in tumble dryer for a purpose – use it”.

            I am waiting for the next pic, which will accompany me to the police station with proof of peeping tom once I ascertain who took the photo.

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