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14 yr house with tiles stuck on gib for shower lining.. any comebacks?
We bought a house 3 years ago. It was built in late 1997/ early 1998 and the builder built two houses on each of two large sites next to each other, so we have 3 neighbours with very similar houses built in the same manner.
We just had an unexplained leak in the downstairs bathroom and traced it back to the shower. It turns out the builder has fixed wall tiles directly onto the gib board and called it a shower lining. 14 years later there has been enough water often enough to get through the porous grouting, saturate the gib lining and create the leak. We have just forked out $2500 to have it ripped out, dried, re-gibbed etc and a proper shower lining fitted before re-installing the shower doors etc.
My question is this.. is the builder liable for this bad workmanship? Or the council for signing it off? Or has the statute of limitations made all of this a mute point? We now intend to do the upstairs shower as it can't be far behind, so we are 5k out of pocket and i'm guessing there are 3 other neighbours about to have the same problem.
ALSO, there is a not insignificant retaining wall between the front and rear of each of these sites, both of which has started to move and could cost upwards of 10k each to remedy.. same question re any liability for poor workmanship?
TIA for any advice
Lincoln :O)
We just had an unexplained leak in the downstairs bathroom and traced it back to the shower. It turns out the builder has fixed wall tiles directly onto the gib board and called it a shower lining. 14 years later there has been enough water often enough to get through the porous grouting, saturate the gib lining and create the leak. We have just forked out $2500 to have it ripped out, dried, re-gibbed etc and a proper shower lining fitted before re-installing the shower doors etc.
My question is this.. is the builder liable for this bad workmanship? Or the council for signing it off? Or has the statute of limitations made all of this a mute point? We now intend to do the upstairs shower as it can't be far behind, so we are 5k out of pocket and i'm guessing there are 3 other neighbours about to have the same problem.
ALSO, there is a not insignificant retaining wall between the front and rear of each of these sites, both of which has started to move and could cost upwards of 10k each to remedy.. same question re any liability for poor workmanship?
TIA for any advice
Lincoln :O)
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