Is their a legal provision under which one can ask for repair cost of roof of two flats?
Question asked by Mr. Sanjeet Khanuja from India:
Hi, I stay in a co-operative housing society. There was some water leakage problem from the flat that was above our flat. It created problem in our bathroom’s roof and at bedroom’s walls. My bathroom’s was stinking and its roof’s paint and pop was getting out. Same was for the bedroom walls. After continuous requests, the owner of above flat did repairs. He spent 2500 Rs. on that. After that we did repair in our bathroom at its roof. Also repaired walls in bedroom including painting at affected walls and roofs where leakage effect was present. We did some treatment and applied anti-leakage solution at roof and walls. We had spent 3500rs on that. The owner of above flat wants us to contribute for 50% of his expenditure. My say is that because of his bathroom leakage problem, we also had to spend 3500rs at our house for repairs, which was only due to his bathroom leakage problem. We are not expecting any money from him, but we don’t want to pay 50% of his house expense cost. Please advice.
Thanks
Sanjeet
Vatsala Answers:
The leakage seems to have originated from the pipes over which your neighbor had control. However pipes which run through the building are considered common amenities. You can compute the total spend and divide it by two and share the same.
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