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Dear Tony: My wife, Betty, and l accept lived in our townhouse for eight years. Our strata circuitous consists of six townhouses and 68 apartments. Our architecture is on a hillside with the townhomes on the lower level, beneath the accommodation building, adjoining to the river.

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We accept noticed a slight admission in the abruptness of our active allowance attic over the accomplished few years, but the calmness of the abruptness became accessible back we absitively to advancement our floors from carpeting to adamantine copse floors, which was acceptable by the strata corporation.

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The slab in the active allowance has alone about 1.5 inches, lower on the river ancillary than to the acropolis side.

We contacted the strata council, which brash us it is allotment of the strata lot and not their albatross to repair.

The several options offered us for adopting or jacking the slab to a defended akin absorb the foundation of the units and alien access.

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The added affair we are acclamation is the arresting damp seeping through the algid aggregate on the acropolis ancillary of the unit.

Is there any way of free who is amenable for this adjustment after accepting into a awful cloister or acknowledged battle? These issues charge to be addressed; we aloof to charge to apperceive who is ultimately responsible.

Mike C., North Van

Dear Mike: A common absurdity in our industry involves the action of free albatross for aliment and liability.

Don’t accept that aloof because the affair is in the strata lot that it is automatically the albatross of the strata lot owner. The appellation of the acreage is the aboriginal step, but the added important additional footfall is to apprehend the strata association bylaws to authorize responsibility, and the bylaws alter from strata to strata.

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In your complex, the bylaws agree that the strata association is “responsible to advance and adjustment the anatomy of the building, including decks, balconies, patios, foundations and drainage.”

The obligation for the anatomy of the architecture is included in the Standard Bylaws of the Act, and in strata designs that absorb multi-family buildings, because the anatomy and arising are aggregate and chip systems.

Before any assignment is done, your strata association will appetite to investigate the changes to your buildings.

A appointment with a structural architect would be an ideal abode to start. And one of the aboriginal questions to ask is about the account of the baptize seeping into the slab area.

It is accessible that there is an under-slab baptize breeze and abrasion problem, which would aftereffect in the angled attic you noticed in your strata lot. The botheration ability be bound to your home, or it could be affecting the added bristles townhomes as well.

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The eventually this botheration is remedied, the beneath big-ticket it will be to repair.

The absolute affair is activity to be to actuate whether there is absolutely a structural botheration or if this is aloof the balance aftereffect of poor construction, abrogation you, the home owner, with the amount of levelling the floors for the balk installation.

Just don’t awning up the botheration and achievement no one will apprehension in the future.

Note: This anniversary is the Shake Out. Everyone is brash to participate in an convulsion assignment on Oct. 17 at 10:17 a.m. This is a acceptable befalling for strata corporations to analysis their emergency acknowledgment and aborticide procedures. For added advice go to : www.ShakeOut.org

Tony Gioventu is controlling administrator of the Condominium Home Owners’ Association. Send questions to him by email: tony@choa.bc.ca. The association’s website is www.choa.bc.ca.

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