Claiming From Estate Agent due to Incorrect TDS Claim?

Emily_Joy

I think £350 is an adequate amount. The biggest problem appear to be the bathroom ceiling. I have seen mold like that many times - in the house we are renting, during the lockdowns. The reason was that there is no extractor fan at all and the only way to ventilate the bathroom was to open the window. Obviously, now we go to work in a morning and can leave the window open, even in winter months. During the lockdowns this was not an option. We needed the bathroom to have reasonable temperature during the day.

It cost us maybe £5 to rectify the problem when we had time. It was very easy to wash the mold off with antibacterial wipes with chlorine. This sorted the mold.

BobT36

HG Mould Cleaner Foam Spray dissolves it super quick (ensure to ventilate though and don't get it on your, or any clothes or fabrics as it dissolves the dye!). 

As to those mentioning every property should have an extractor fan, I'm on my 3rd rented property and never had one, despite the bathrooms having small windows. As I now have a good landlord, I mentioned the problem and they installed one immediately. (I'm the first tenant of this current house, it was previously privately owned). 

Yes, cold winters with the windows open! (and expensive too as I had to run my own dehumidifier, and STILL got some mould. No-where near as bad as that, though). Generally opening the bathroom door is not a good idea until a good half-hour afterwards else it just vents the steam into the rest of the property.. Not a good idea if they have all the other windows shut! Better to just open one (inc the bathroom) to create some sort of directional airflow.


As to the scuffs, as long as full chunks haven't been taken out of the wall, that's normal. The zips on my trouser pockets or buttons of my coat often create scuffs / scratches across a wall, or just brushing something against it. A light re-paint with a similar colour should be ok. Where it looks like they've "rubbed them out", they may have used those magic scourer pad things that are meant to remove such. It proves they tried, and landlords should expect to re-paint a bit after a tenancy. I'm sure your own walls would get scuffed now and then! But you may patch them up quicker (as you own the property) and know the paint colour. 

Regarding the mould, many who aren't from England (and are instead from a hot country) have never seen mould or had to deal with it before, so they've no idea how our cold / damp is. Most people probably don't fully read their tenancy agreements, either. No excuse though if they've been verbally instructed how to sort it.