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Who Pays When Toilet Tanks Burst?
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19 March 2005
The Toronto Star − Condo Living Section
Condo Living sent the following question to Shlomo Sharon, President, Taft Forward Property Management Group
Question
I am inquiring about damage to other units caused by, for example, a toilet tank or a washer bursting in a top-floor unit.
I have been told that if the toilet tank bursts as a result of negligence by the unit owner, then the unit owner (or the owner's insurance) pays for the damage to the other units. But if the bursting was not the result of the unit owner's negligence, then the condominium corporation (or the condominium corporation's insurance) is responsible for repairing the damage to the other units.
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