Homeowner’s Rights: Can Your Interior Renovation Permit Serve as Evidence in Disputes?
Imagine this frustrating scenario: less than six months after your renovation is complete, your bathroom ceiling starts leaking, and the floor begins to buckle. You angrily confront the designer, only to be met with a shrug and a claim that it’s due to old building pipes, unrelated to their work. Both sides stick to their story, and you’ve scoured your initial quotes and scattered Line messages, finding no legally binding construction drawings. During lengthy mediation, the lack of ‘positive evidence’ leaves you struggling in a quagmire of ‘he said, she said,’ potentially forcing you to accept a financial loss.However, in an alternate reality, the homeowner pulls out a thick stack of documents from a drawer – the government-issued ‘Interior Renovation…