Mould in my rented apartment- With pics...

newbiejolly

I feel bad for you. The mould in my flat covers (thick) half of one of my bedroom walls! I've had to move my bed into the living room, because I was getting ill all the time.

moneysavinmonkey

newbiejolly wrote: »

I feel bad for you. The mould in my flat covers (thick) half of one of my bedroom walls! I've had to move my bed into the living room, because I was getting ill all the time.

:eek: That doesn't sound safe to live in!? What has your landlord said. Has someone from the council environmental health investigated?

newbiejolly

moneysavinmonkey wrote: »

:eek: That doesn't sound safe to live in!? What has your landlord said. Has someone from the council environmental health investigated?

My landlady doesnt do anything about any of the things shes responsible for. I'm moving out soon and have other issues to deal with relating to her, so I've just given up.

oramgepekoe

Can you move the cupboards around so that the outside wall is as free as possible from furniture.

bordercars

birduk wrote: »

Hi, I am afraid I can't offer much help with what to do with your landlord.

However, I can offer my personal experience of damp in a rented house, that we ignored. It just gets worse and eventually can cover all of the walls in all of the house (in small patches), despite our best efforts to clean/bleach etc, basically everything that was in our capability to no avail.

It is something that the landlord will have to get sorted by fiting dampproof etc. He/she will have to investigate properly. Don't be fobbed off with repainting.

The above all assumes that it is not caused by a specific damp patch that could be dried out!

I rent a bungalow, the last 3 tennats have had no problem with mould over the last 5 years, my current 1 has after 6 months. there is a damp course , airbricks and no leaks. the problem...the tennant, heating on full double glazing shut tight & no ventilation, to cap it all after trying to treat for 2 months on a recent visit they had washing airing in a room with no ventilation. the tennat is at fault 9 out of 10 times. this of course is not suggesting the OP is at fault.

gas wise i thought a cert was for a year , but had to get a new one for a new tennant.

have a look at this site you may have to google it , but its something like " the landlords zone" good for both sides.

remember for every good LL there are probaly 10 bad ones. vet them like they do you.

moneysavinmonkey

heating on is a good thing!
Do the windows have air vents or are they able to be locked in an ajar position? - perhaps you could politely demonstrate to the tenants how to do this. Do all the extractors - ie kitchen bathroom work properly, have the filters been changed recently?

I presume you have discussed with your tenants measures they can undertake to make things better for themselves - as discussed closing doors, using extractors, lids on pans...

Washing can a difficult one - if it's raining/cold outside where exactly are your tenant's mean't to dry it?

Is the property supplied as furnished, if so perhaps you need to provide a (vented) dryer or at the very least a dehumidifier.

Perhaps the other tenants did suffer from damp/mould but just didn't complain and cleaned it off when they left??

pnq06

newbiejolly wrote: »

I feel bad for you. The mould in my flat covers (thick) half of one of my bedroom walls! I've had to move my bed into the living room, because I was getting ill all the time.

That is really s**t of your LL!!!!!!!

The bloke from George Wimpy has been round and tried to blame fault on us and the estate agent :rolleyes: Well everyone but themselves :rolleyes:

He thinks the white salts on the carpet is normal and that every house has it :rolleyes: And that the damp course is fine.. I told him that we'd only been in there 6 weeks and that even if the windows aren't open at all hours there shouldn't be that much mould coming through... I also explained that our other rented house which had the worlds smallest window which we slept under and had its vents painted shut didn't have mould!!!

He looked in the other bedroom and pointed out a table on its side (away from the wall) and said "things like that cause damp as there isn't anywhere for the air to circulate" and then he realised it is a table with a massive gap from front to back

He has now just left me a voice message telling me a cleaner will be coming 40 miles to clean it up and between him and the estate agent they can argue the toss as to who will pay the costs...

I've had to leave messages for my estate agent as I don't want to be agreeing anything especially as a local cleaner could be cheaper if she has to pay...

Then again, I don't know why I'm thinking of everyone else!!!!

pnq06

bordercars wrote: »

I rent a bungalow, the last 3 tennats have had no problem with mould over the last 5 years, my current 1 has after 6 months. there is a damp course , airbricks and no leaks. the problem...the tennant, heating on full double glazing shut tight & no ventilation, to cap it all after trying to treat for 2 months on a recent visit they had washing airing in a room with no ventilation. the tennat is at fault 9 out of 10 times. this of course is not suggesting the OP is at fault.

gas wise i thought a cert was for a year , but had to get a new one for a new tennant.

have a look at this site you may have to google it , but its something like " the landlords zone" good for both sides.

remember for every good LL there are probaly 10 bad ones. vet them like they do you.

I know your not having a go at me but I can honestly say that I have been living in rented accommodation for 5 years and never had a problem with mould- well apart from a tiny bit in the corner of the window at the last house which was understandable as the vents didn't work and it was winter so I didn't always have the windows open..

I am a new tenant so it did have to be a new certificate which according the the old estate agents had been done by them when their tenants left..

And I'll be sure to look at that site- thanks for the link

fumken

Hi All,
I appreciate all the good advice given here. I have a similar problem. I installed d/glazing and had a badly done bathroom refit which resulted in a leakage some six months ago. Now my external walls look like those in this pic. I was going to buy the special paint get it cleaned and painted. From what I am reading it will only come back. Is it essential to remove the wall lining treat and put a new lining or not. Please help as I have already given the builder some money to do the job.
Thanks in advance.