hi all
I recently bought a renovated property for investment purpose, newbie mistake, should've bought something and renovated myself instead. Anyway, i've only just recently discovered that it had a terrible bathroom job done. builder with unqualified plumbing experience attempted a quick bathroom job. no water proofing and didn't adhere to the trade standards.
The result: water damage to the two adjacent bedroom walls and water leak marks everywhere. I've now engaged a qualified builder to knock down and re-do the bathroom. would cost > $8k.
Several questions wondering if anyone could shed some light on this:
(1) Where and how to find qualified trades people easily ?
(2) Can this type of bad renovation job and cost of re-do be covered by any type of insurance ? I've got landlord insurance of which i doubt this would cover any of it. Strata insurance ?
(3) If the building has internal wall cracks on them, can this be covered by strata building insurance ?
(4) Lessons that you think we could've all learnt through this?
Cheers
JK Liverpool NSW
I recently bought a renovated property for investment purpose, newbie mistake, should've bought something and renovated myself instead. Anyway, i've only just recently discovered that it had a terrible bathroom job done. builder with unqualified plumbing experience attempted a quick bathroom job. no water proofing and didn't adhere to the trade standards.
The result: water damage to the two adjacent bedroom walls and water leak marks everywhere. I've now engaged a qualified builder to knock down and re-do the bathroom. would cost > $8k.
Several questions wondering if anyone could shed some light on this:
(1) Where and how to find qualified trades people easily ?
(2) Can this type of bad renovation job and cost of re-do be covered by any type of insurance ? I've got landlord insurance of which i doubt this would cover any of it. Strata insurance ?
(3) If the building has internal wall cracks on them, can this be covered by strata building insurance ?
(4) Lessons that you think we could've all learnt through this?
Cheers
JK Liverpool NSW