Water Pipes not Extended to Specifications

Copper water pipes were supposed to be extended to accommodate rainscreen assembly



















with space between the nut and the wall - like this:



















not with no space between the nut and wall - like this:



















We have not been able to screw our hose onto our taps since 2005



















Pipes were extended on some units, but not others. Our unit was not the only one excluded.

The strata paid high prices for proper repairs and high premiums for a 2-year warranty for labour, materials, and design - but for what good?

The Willis Warranty with Commonwealth Insurance expired on October 11, 2007 for materials and labour, and it will expire for water penetration on October 11, 2015. It does not cover diminution in the value of property, or failure to give prompt notice to the insurer of a defect or potential defect or loss.

The building envelope behind this tap looks to us like it will probably fail sooner than if the tap had been extended in accordance with the terms of the contract specifications.














It goes from bad to worse.

These plants are artificial.
We bought them after the building envelope project was completed because we can't grow our plants or flowers without being able to use our hose to water them.














We don't know what else we can use to screen the view between the windows of the buildings.

Instead of requiring Heatherbrae to correct the tap defects to allow us to water plants with our hose, council gave notice on March 6, 2009, of a proposal to amend the bylaws as follows:

"An Owner shall remove all planters, pots and decorative apparatus that do not contain live plants." So, that strata acts again to deprive us of privacy and expects us to remove the screen because the pipe to our tap was not extended so we can no longer attach our hose to water live plants.

We had to get new trellis planters in order to accommodate live plants, which we will have to water with a bucket, if we don't buy a new hose adapter.

This is unfair.

After the tree was cut down and replaced with a trellis planter, at our cost, not 407's, and the strata council refused for 20 years to enforce the bylaws to remedy the nuisance in order to preserve and protect the illegal acts and detrimental privileges of others, our prayer for relief must now go to a judge of the court.

All of this is sickening to us but we can't just keep living this way for all the rest of our lives.