The headline is a suitable introduction to a major issue for thousands of new home owners in WA, or with the prospects of a wider impact.
It relates to the plumbing pipe work providing the water services around a home. These services have progressively used iron, copper and more recently plastic pipe materials. With changes in how homes have been built pipe work may be buried under concrete, concealed in cavities, behind waterproof and decorated walls, encased in concrete ……
Accessing leaking or failed plumbing has become more difficult. The Australian Standards and National Building Codes have accepted changes that may result in repair being more difficult and expensive assuming better products and standards minimise the risk.
The WA regulator and ACCC are aware of the issues.
Is there a resolution?
With remedial work in progress there is the prospect of legal action. Paywalled, however the headline messaging says enough to suggest it could be a long running burden for the home owners affected.
The prior post involves pipework manufactured using polybutylene. There are/have been at least two different suppliers of piping systems using that type of material.
Sales and installation history of polybutylene pipework will differ depending on state or territory.
Not exactly building oversight, but building oversight. It is over the top when something like this happens because of poorly considered laws and a tribunal populated by people who look in front of their eyes and nowhere else.
BAU by our so-called regulators. There seems a random collection of unlinked disinterested hodge podges that supposedly do something beyond collect their pay and (PIC these days) ‘marching around’ doing little-to-nothing.
