Housing dampness/mould

*max*

hellokitty888 wrote: »

Yes thanks but I cant see anything about medical priority, where abouts is hoeing fourm ? thanks

Typo. Person_one meant the housing section (I'm assuming!).

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=16

Person_one

*max* wrote: »

Now that's one section I had no idea we had!

Oops! Autocorrect randomness at its finest!

I meant the 'House Buying, Renting and Selling' forum, OP.

hellokitty888

Thank you

hellokitty888

posted a thread in the housing page,but had no replys

Scarab

Try here!

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=139

tooldle

You mention the inside of your windows are wet and mold is growing. This sounds like condensation. You need to ventilate and try to reduce the moisture that you are putting into the air. Get the windows open for a good while each day, or invest in a dehumidifier.

BitterAndTwisted

Quote: "the gutters to the property are all broken the water is pouring down the walls onto the windows making the damp worse, under the front windows is all flooded with water which just keeps soaking back into the walls".

If the guttering and downpipes are leaking, with water pouring down the external walls then no amount of ventilating and dehumidifying is going to make any difference whatsoever! The moisture is coming in from the outside, not being caused by the OP' putting too much into the air by their lifestyle.

OP: you need to contact Environmental Health. They will come to carry out an inspection and either compel the landlord to make repairs or have them carried out and bill the landlord for it. They could decide that the property in uninhabitable and your priority for rehousing will soar to the top of the list.

j.e.j.

As OP only got one (rather sarky) reply over on the Housing Board, I'll post on this thread.

I'm guessing this is a private landlord you're renting from, OP? I don't know if it's the same in Scotland, but here it's the case that if the property is Housing Association, the council have some pull on them with regard to standards that the property has to be kept to. But with a private landlord, they have no authority to make them act unless the property has been deemed unfit to live in (ie condemned).

It's definitely worth backing up your application for council housing with as much medical evidence as you can, so that you can get high priority when it comes to applying for housing. So yes, get those medical letters sent off to the council asap.

Kayalana99

j.e.j. wrote: »

As OP only got one (rather sarky) reply over on the Housing Board, I'll post on this thread.

I'm guessing this is a private landlord you're renting from, OP? I don't know if it's the same in Scotland, but here it's the case that if the property is Housing Association, the council have some pull on them with regard to standards that the property has to be kept to. But with a private landlord, they have no authority to make them act unless the property has been deemed unfit to live in (ie condemned).

It's definitely worth backing up your application for council housing with as much medical evidence as you can, so that you can get high priority when it comes to applying for housing. So yes, get those medical letters sent off to the council asap.

I was under the impression its a council house

BitterAndTwisted

It doesn't matter whether the property is owned by a private landlord, a Housing Association or the Local Authority. Leaking gutters and water running down the walls is an URGENT repair. If the landlord is not willing to undertake necessary repairs then EH can compel them to. Damp and consequent mould are potentially extremely injurious to health.