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Jeannie Murtagh bought her apartment new 15 years ago.
She thought her architecturally designed, “practical, maintenance-free place” was a sure bet: “That’s what I was going for.”
The dream started to unravel five years ago when her neighbour first discovered a leak.
When builders came to investigate, they discovered the drip was only the tip of a much larger iceberg. Design faults and poor-quality materials meant Murtagh’s home, and her neighbours’ properties, had been rotting from the inside out for the past 10 years.