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Me too! ...My mother. :( Every time I call her, I get loaded up with work. Last week was concrete and roller gates. Tomorrow is yardwork followed by painting. At least your bosses pay you with money. I get paid in earbashings and whingeing. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and...

This sounds like Greek Style Quoting. $7000 total. $3500 for the tiler, and $3500 for me - want the job? :D

The plumber was talking about the lead up to concrete cancer. (I really don't like that term btw, it freaks people out needlessly). In short, in the beginning, water gets into the concrete and you get lime leaching out. If the water stays there for a long time, the steel reo bars in the concrete...

Oh and on a topic unrelated to waterproofing membranes/concrete dying a slow painful death of cancer (:D) I still think that your strata guy is incompetent/ineffective. Get the owners together, kick him out, take control of the slush fund, fix it yourself, and contract a competent company to...

Rwang calm down for a second, it isn't concrete cancer. Here is the definition of concrete cancer from wikipedia to ease your mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_cancer use some common sense also - people make driveways out of concrete that they leave exposed to rain/sun/water all...

It's lime (calicium carbonate mostly) leeching out from the concrete based tile glue/grout. It comes off with a scrape and acid wash. For a start, an engineers report does not cost $7 000. It costs far less than that. Second, he wants to delay the work because he doesn't have the money. Put...

you're on the top floor and so water in order to get to concrete is going to have to go through your tiles/grout first (and wouldnt cause concrete cancer anyway, that's ususally because of other minerals/chemicals being in the water - sulfates mostly from memory when you build houses on...

the yellow marks are just discoloration from the water, whether its degradation of the paint or sediment or whatever I don't know, but that's normal when you have a roof leak. The mould is obviously there because it was moist and had the opportunity to grow, and it being dry at the moment just...

That sounds like unconscionable conduct on behalf of the solicitor. If you're upset enough, complain to the bar association (or whatever it is called in your state) and make his life miserable. They'll investigate, and it wont cost you anything. Yes, for all those reading, I'm a troublemaker...

And there it is. This is what most likely happened: The developer, who was probably the builder, did a bodgy job that needed repairs, and rather than do the right thing and fix everything, ran his own body corporate, only spending money where he absolutely had to until the 7 year builders...

Don't worry about it. I unfortunately have a disease called a "sense of fair play" and really don't like seeing people get ripped off. If your business model relies on you stealing from people, change the model, or go out of business imo. Also if you get more than 50% you can kick the strata...

I will say from the outset that this stinks to high heaven and you should be on the phone to consumer affairs/department of fair trading practices immediately. Call the building board and find out exactly when the building was passed for a certificate of occupancy. It is my belief (just made...

My blood pressure went up reading that. How old is the building? How many in the complex? Elaborate on the standing pool of water comment - where precisely is the standing pool of water? What is the nature of the remainder of complaints (ie balcony leakage)? Is body corporate run by an...