Balcony Waterproofing in Randwick

Randwick holds more apartments than any other suburb on this site — 8,047 flats out of 11,771 occupied private dwellings — so a balcony trade here is working on strata stock far more often than on houses.

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Balcony Waterproofing around Randwick

At 68.3 per cent flats, Randwick is more than three times the New South Wales average of 21.7 per cent. What makes it unusual among the nine suburbs here is the second number: 16.0 per cent semi-detached, row or terrace housing, the highest of any suburb we cover. Only 13.8 per cent is separate housing.

That matters because a terrace balcony and a strata balcony are different jobs with different owners. On a terrace the decision sits with one household. On a unit block it sits with an owners corporation, the balcony may or may not be common property, and the answer to who pays comes before the answer to what it costs. Randwick has enough of both that the question is worth asking rather than assuming.

A row of three- and four-storey liver-brick and blond-brick walk-up apartment blocks receding along a street, each with empty undercroft parking behind its own concrete driveway crossover — illustrative example

Permits and Randwick City Council rules

Randwick City Council is the consent authority for this suburb, and current council requirements should be confirmed with them directly. What is settled at state level is that the Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 names waterproofing as a building element and treats repair of a prescribed building as building work, with class 2 — apartment buildings — among the prescribed classes. With Randwick at 68.3 per cent flats, that regime is in play on the majority of the suburb's balconies, and on its terraces it generally is not.

Source: Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 (NSW) s 6(1)(b), s 4(1)(c); Design and Building Practitioners Regulation 2021 (NSW) cl 12(1) — confirm current requirements with Randwick City Council.

Timing and lead times in Randwick

Timing follows the weather rather than the calendar. Sydney's mean rainfall peaks in March and again in June and drops to its lowest in September, with June running at roughly double the September figure. Across Randwick's 8,047 flats that means reports cluster in autumn, when several days of steady rain in a row find whatever the membrane has stopped covering.

Our Randwick service area

We take balcony waterproofing enquiries across Randwick and the surrounding eastern suburbs.

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