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  • A qualified professional should have asked if he had strata approval as it is common to summit the plans for approval before beginning work. The town house I last lived in allowed central air units but because they would essentially always end up RIGHT BELOW the bedroom windows of the adjacent unit they had restrictions on placement and the noise rating of the units.

    This is fairly reasonable as some of the compressor units can be very loud, can you imagine sleeping with your windows open and then some loud AC unit kicks in all night keeping you up because you live so close to the unit that just installed one.


    1. He needed approval before making holes in common exterior walls which are under the strata.
    2. The strata specifically prohibited air conditioners.

    The corporation said the heat pump contravened a bylaw that requires owners to get approval from the strata before altering common property and another bylaw banning air conditioning devices.

    I lived in a town house and added central air… I had to summit the install plan from the installer and the noise db rating of the unit I was installing for approval. It was approved then I proceeded.

    Sorry in this case the owner screwed up TWICE.