A little vent about my horrible house

darkpool

KxMx wrote: »

We're not talking minor repairs here, like a faulty window handle or a dodgy toilet.

We are talking fixing something that is affecting the occupants health!

but it's not like the mould appeared overnight. it must have been there months/ years. i don't think the council should be expected to drop everything and send guys round over christmas.

as the OP says herself, private lets are twice the rent. if she wants the comfort of a better house she should pay for it like everyone else.

MamaMoo_2

darkpool wrote: »

but it's not like the mould appeared overnight. it must have been there months/ years. i don't think the council should be expected to drop everything and send guys round over christmas.

as the OP says herself, private lets are twice the rent. if she wants the comfort of a better house she should pay for it like everyone else.

Yeah, sorry. Because I live in Social Housing my family should have to suffer. Genius.

Also, it did appear pretty much overnight. I put my Christmas tree up on December 11th, and the corner was mould free. By the 16th there was mould growing up the walls.

The big patch in my bedroom had appeared in the 10-12 weeks since re-arranging the bedroom (in fact, my husband did a mould check when we discovered the patch downstairs 7 weeks ago, and it wasn't there then. Nor was it there on 3rd Jan when the damp inspector came!)

The windows got mouldy over a period of about a week, and no amount of bleach or fungicide would keep it away for longer than a week.


Also, please read. I didn't expect anyone to drop everything and pop out over Christmas. My main issue right now is that workmen are repeatedly sent to fox my windows, and so far, none have.


Also, edited to add, have just had a quick scour around where the fungicidal wash was done. More mould has appeared above the anti-mould paint.

rustyboy21

darkpool wrote: »

but it's not like the mould appeared overnight. it must have been there months/ years. i don't think the council should be expected to drop everything and send guys round over christmas.

as the OP says herself, private lets are twice the rent. if she wants the comfort of a better house she should pay for it like everyone else.

Perhaps if you got off your soap box and started giving some structural advice, instead of berating anyone who lives in Social Housing, then maybe you would be a more constructive participant to this thread.

Not all people are in the same position as yourself, in having quite a good job as it seems. Being a civil engineer, maybe you could give some advice about ridding the mould form mammas house, After all you have been through Uni, Didn't we all contribute to your education? You must have covered subjects like this.

Perhaps you may be willing to do a house swap with mamma for a few weeks, so her family can get some respite from her living conditions and you can gain experience of living in a faulty house, which makes you ill !

Derivative

With a private landlord, presumably you would be able to get the work done yourself and invoice the LL (if they refused to do it or delayed persistently).

Is there no way you can do this in social housing?

I would look into whether or not it might be possible to do the work yourself, photographing and getting adequate evidence, and invoicing the council.

Not saying it is possible, but something to look into, perhaps?

cavework

MamaMoo wrote: »

It's been 7 weeks today.

And so far, the windows should have been dealt with 3 times, twice the guy has done bug*er all (in fact yesterday he spent 30 minutes lurking in my bedroom with the mould guy rabbiting on about football. The mould guy was just ignoring him, bless him, but Bob wouldn't shut up)

If Bob had done his job the first time, this would have been fixed 31 days ago, but Bob hadn't been given the info, so it was forgivable.

Then no-one turned up for the appointment on Tuesday night.

Then yesterday, despite being told what needed doing, he didn't bother. The guy was a complete idiot. He kept losing his drill (that he was using to tighten the handles on my windows. Genius, as they're now so tight that they're hard to open.)

He ignored the job description and then basically called me and my husband liars, even though we can prove there washer problems with the windows (the toilet window is half held in with filler that my husban put there just to keep it temporarily held in place)

Oh, and the damp inspector wrote a list of what needed doing, and this was then confirmed when the service manager came around, and agreed that everything was necessary.

I'm just fed up now.

4th time lucky, eh?

Time to move your complaint up a notch. Do your landlords have a tenants board?
Give them a call and ask and if so .. submit a complaint direct .