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Originally Posted by 68style

Anyone have experience fighting with their strata management company?

I'm in a first floor unit and the building is about 13 years old. Since the summer my sink has started to fill up with water, there has been other units near me that backed up and flooded and a plumbing company has been practically living here lately replacing pipes in the parkade, etc.

Plumber comes out, augers the line and tells me there's a block about 8 feet in. Pushes it out and dumps degreaser down. Everything is okay for a few months.

Then the last few months... had to call them in like 4 times for my sink filling up and draining, etc. It's been a nightmare... they said they can't do much, it's a pipe in the parkade full of grease and shit. Eventually they pulled the end caps off the pipe and pulled out a shit tonnes of grease, etc.

Suddenly now my management company is saying I have to pay for the July visit... like 6 months after the fact... saying 8 feet is still inside my unit and it's my fault. The plumbing invoice says "Most likely the fault of tennants" on it.

Well which fuckin tenants? Doesn't say me and tenants could be referring to a general tenants of the building. My sink is like 4 feet away from the vertical pipe that goes down into the parkade which is shared by all 5 floors above mine. It could be anyone. I don't even cook with oil and I don't use my garbeurator. And even if I did, how the fuck is it my problem if the pipe in the parkade is being replaced now becuase it was totally blocked with grease?

The bylaw he quoted says that it's my responsibility to maintain things in my unit.

So far online, I have found several resources saying that ANY drainage of water in the building is considered common property and not the responsibility of owners or tenants.

Anyone else have experience in this vein?

Curious, how much is the bill?