By Paula Ahillon For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 05:30 BST, 24 June 2019 | Updated: 05:30 BST, 24 June 2019
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A young primary school teacher will have to pay as much as $100,000 to remove dangerous cladding from her Melbourne apartment.
Blaire Warren-Smith, 28, bought the two-bedroom, inner-city apartment for $500,000 last year.
She had no idea the apartment - which was given the approval by authorities and fire engineers before she bought it - was covered in flammable cladding at the time.
'Basically our building is covered in petrol,' she told 3AW's Neil Mitchell.
Blaire Warren-Smith, 28, purchased an apartment (pictured) in inner-Melbourne which was given the tick of approval by authorities, including fire engineers over a year ago
The young teacher has already been made to pay $8,000 in emergency costs, including the removal of wooden items from outdoor areas.
'It's very stressful. It's having a massive impact … It's money that I don't have and I can't just throw away,' the primary teacher told Today.
The 28-year-old said she didn't even have the