Blackrock apartment owners face €25,000 bill for defects

However, shortly after this work was finished many owners began to notice “water ingress around windows and balcony doors”, according to the minutes.

Thorntons met the cladding manufacturer, who said the zinc cladding was not installed properly, leaving “no room behind the zinc for ventilation which results in the timber backing rotting from the inside out”. The surveyors also found an issue with some of the balconies. The surveyors installed a suspended aluminium plate to secure the balconies temporarily while a tender was sought for remedial work, according to the minutes.Thorntons told the meeting that scaffolding would have to be erected, windows would have to be taken out, flashings replaced, zinc trims changed, and rotten balcony doors treated the same way. Some windows would have to be replaced entirely. The quote for this work was €850,000, resulting in a €25,000 levy per owner.

They also sought legal advice on who was responsible for fixing such defects. However the minutes conclude that “legal investigations undertaken to see if there was some other way of addressing these problems – without having to come to members to put their hands in their pockets – had been exhausted over a period of seven years”.

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