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1. Of the judgment of the court of first instance, KRW 1,520,047 against the Defendants and the Defendants’ joint and several liability against the Defendants from April 17, 2015.
Reasons
1. Basic facts
A. The Plaintiff is the owner of the Daegu Northern-gu D apartment (hereinafter “instant apartment”) No. 305 (hereinafter “Plaintiff apartment”) and resides in the Plaintiff apartment. The Defendants are the owners of the instant apartment No. 505 (hereinafter “Defendant apartment”) that is the immediate upper floor of the Plaintiff apartment, and are residing in the Defendants’ apartment.
B. On January 2014, the Plaintiff informed the Defendants of water leakages, such as water spreads, at the entrance ceiling of the Plaintiff apartment house.
Accordingly, the defendants were inspected under the entrance of the apartment house of the defendants, and the water leakage of the water pipe was not discovered.
C. After the aforementioned water leakage inspection, the Plaintiff continued to perform water leakage in the toilets, living rooms, etc. of the Plaintiff apartment, and around August 2014, the Plaintiff demanded the Defendants to perform a waterproof construction work of the apartment.
Accordingly, the Defendants carried out waterproof construction (cost of KRW 1.8 million) in the toilets and beeras of apartment apartments of the same month.
Even after the flood control construction, water leakage has continued on the toilets, living rooms, and walls of the plaintiff's apartment house.
Accordingly, around October 2014, the defendants sold the wall water pipe of the defendant's apartment apartment house and confirmed the leakage of the water (cost 200,000 won), but the water leakage was not found.
E. Since then until December 2014, when water leakage has continued in the Plaintiff’s apartment, the Defendants underwent a water leakage inspection again on the part laid down below the dwelling space from the point where the water measuring equipment was installed in the Defendants’ apartment in the same month. At that time, water pipes were found to be water leakages in the dwelling space (i.e., water pipes leading to toilets from the dwelling space), (ii) water pipes moving from the dwelling space, and (iii) water pipes at the bottom of the dwelling space.
Accordingly, the defendants performed the whole and the replacement of the water pipe (cost of KRW 550,00).
F. The Defendants are above E.
replacement of the water pipes of this subsection.