rented house with mould

poppysarah

quintwins wrote: »

ok we'll give him to the end of the month as agreed then we'll contact them and also officially give our notice, if it was just me i'd be out of here in a heartbeat

Why not ring them today and have an informal chat with them?

quintwins

ok i'll google the number and phone when the boys are having a nap, what is it with kids they have to be as loud as possible as soon as you lift the phone

laughingcow81

You've put up with it this long; phone EH now and take action now!!

quintwins

i just wanted to add thats i knwo it's bad we've put up with this for so long and it's unfair on my boys but i didn't want to unsettle them by moving either and i do scrub the walls regularly, they love this house it has a huge garden and it near granny and grandads house, and for the money were paying all we'll get is an ex council house somewhere dodgy, i just want to do whats best for my kids but this clearly isn't it

Bettie

If the landlord had the roof repointed do you think maybe there was a leak that could have soaked into the walls?

I have lived here for 24 years and there was never a problem for me with damp or condensation unless I close the windows at night then the water runs down them, however about four years ago in the soil stack where loads of pipes run, a water pipe must have started to leak, this went unnoticed for many,many months, there was no pool of water anywhere but it was dripping and running along a wall and getting soaked up. I started to see mould on walls and a white furry growth in the downstairs toilet, two rooms away from the leak, then I saw mould outside and eventually found this leak. despite all cleaning, heating, windows open it took two years before the mould stopped reappearing and I've only just repainted the walls as before was a waste of time.

poppysarah

quintwins wrote: »

it's unfair on my boys but i didn't want to unsettle them by moving either

Mould is bad for them.
Damp is bad for them.

BitterAndTwisted

No, it most certainly isn't. Mould can be a very serious health-hazard for adults never mind small children. EH may insist on the landlord getting these issues addressed and can impose penalties if they don't but the LL could be minded to give you your notice in return. Quite honestly I'd be making definite plans to get the hell out of there before you have to face another winter in that health-trap house.

quintwins

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

No, it most certainly isn't. Mould can be a very serious health-hazard for adults never mind small children. EH may insist on the landlord getting these issues addressed and can impose penalties if they don't but the LL could be minded to give you your notice in return. Quite honestly I'd be making definite plans to get the hell out of there before you have to face another winter in that health-trap house.

if he serves us or notice that will only be 4 weeks we can't possibly gather up enough to move by then so then our ownly option will be to make him evict us legally to give us more time i really don't want that sort of thing to happen

poppysarah

quintwins wrote: »

if he serves us or notice that will only be 4 weeks we can't possibly gather up enough to move by then so then our ownly option will be to make him evict us legally to give us more time i really don't want that sort of thing to happen

8 weeks notice?

quintwins

poppysarah wrote: »

8 weeks notice?

no it's 4 becase i was thinking about it earlier and he said we had to give him 4 weeks and he he had to do the same, ofcourse if we'd acually signed an agreement i could have checked this , all my houses have been 4 weeks aswell i think it might be slightly diferent over here than the mainland, i've been renting for 7 years now and altho my first 2 houses were the same landlord and then 2 others before this they've all been 4weeks