‘Non mi piace avere la gente vedere la muffa nella mia casa’

Some people have no survival instinct. Should it be sorted by the council? Ofc. But who wants it more? 

She’s not going to be happy with the picture the BBC has ran with then.

There are too many cases where the Tennant does not open windows and leaves clothes drying on radiators. This is the UK where the weather is cold and rainy most of the year so its the job of the Tennant to make sure they open windows and not use radiators for drying clothes. This isn’t an issue in other countries where the weather is hotter so people open windows more and outside is more sunny so people drying clothes outside.

Before I get the downvites I rented my house out to tennants where there was damp. I eventually moved into the house myself and never got any damp since I moved into the property.

Gosh if only you could watch a YouTube video to help you solve this.

Half these people commenting have clearly never lived in rented accomation where mold is an issue and it shows.

I lived in a flat with no garden and storage heaters that cost an absolute fortune to run. Despite my best efforts with ventilation and heating mold would still accumulate, particularly in the bathroom and bedrooms. Sometimes I had no choice but to dry clothes indoors due to the weather etc etc. During winter mold was unavoidable in the bedrooms because of the outdoor temperatures and having to keep windows shut.

I now live in a new build with good ventilation and cheaper heating and haven’t changed my living habits at all and yet have had zero black mold anywhere in the house.

Admittedly yes there are things the tenant can do to combat the mold such as buying dehumidifiers and running heating 24/7 but why should that come at the tenant’s cost when the property clearly isn’t fit for purpose. You can be drawn in by the “cheap” rent and then blindsided by the huge running costs of a poor sub-standard property as a result.

“The property that I get for free at other people’s expense isn’t up to the standard that I would like, causing me some embarrassment. Of course I haven’t reported it to the council or attempted to do anything about it myself.” 🤡

Been fixing mostly heating systems and carrying out other maintenance work in social housing for years and nine times out of ten, the state out the house is usually indicative of the user. The tenants get everything from regular call outs, heaters left, mould cleaned and repainted (albeit only with mould paint and cleaner) doors and windows as needed and regular surveys of work that may need carrying out.
What can happen is a trades attending the property see it’s an absolute shit hole and then take the option of doing the absolute minimum work to rectify it because they want to get out as quick as possible or in some instances bitterness, which is unfortunately human nature.
It’s all good having council and social housing but there needs to be far more guidelines on the Tennant side, because there’s thousands of houses being shat on by entitled people who don’t care about the opportunity/asset they’ve been granted.

Put a jumper on and open the windows for a bit. Well constructed buildings are more susceptible to mould because the moist air can’t escape. I’ve had tenants that create mould and tenants that create no mould in the same flat. This is just common sense for most people.

I grew up in the same area and we always had problems with damp too, we also had the main drains for several houses running near ours and constantly had leakages and smells. My mum had cancer and lived with black mould in her room. We got double glazing after some kids threw a brick through the window, we had heat, we had trickle vents. Sometimes it was due to heavy rains and sometimes due to next doors plumbing leaking- that we couldn’t fix. Because ultimately it would be up to the landlords of next door to fix it. Our roof was insulated but we couldn’t afford to fix wear and tear. So during heavy rains we always had some sort of water coming into the house, usually in mine or my mum’s bedroom. We used some waterproof paint but that only lasts so long. The issue was not just the roof, the drains, the pipes- it was the wall too. Many houses and flats in the UK have outdated rendering which traps moisture within the walls. Willing to bet the flat has cement rendering.
I remember huge patches of black on the walls, and mushrooms growing in our kitchen.

Only after mum died could we afford to actually fix things. At least when she was alive, a whole group from her Church spent their own money and time to fix up her bedroom. For her final months she wasn’t sleeping with mould and I am grateful for that.

I am sickened by all the comments blaming the tennant. Some housing in certain areas is just poorly built and landlords shit. Especially in north west London. Do people not remember Grenfell? Some of these areas are particularly bad.

Why have British taxpayers been funding her existence for the last 25 years???

Take some steps to stop it then, instead of expecting everyone to do it for you.

Maybe her kids can help out financially? Just saying..

Councils need to fulfil their responsibilities to their tenants. End of story.

Blamers of the tenant need to take a good long hard look at themselves.

So I had a damp problem in my property and got all of the “open a window” and “turn the heating on” bullshit.

95% humidity, dehumidifiers running flat out in every room, 21 to 25c all day every day.

The actual problem was a botched external modification was funneling rainwater under my floor and it was most expensive to sort, and appears to have been a council or council contractor failure 30+ years ago.

Similarly one of the houses I lived in as a student had a mould problem. Because they’d built a path above the damp course, the drains didn’t work and all the rainwater falling onto the roof of our house and the house next door formed a lake that soaked into the walls.

It wasn’t until they tried to evict us after the place actually flooded (somehow our fault) and we produced every email, letter, photo and video of the problem we had sent them, did they bother sending someone to investigate the cause. Easy fix. But victim blaming is even easier.

When you live entirely off other people, you kind of have to take what you can get.

This is a common issue in some of the places where I work.

In summertime, windows closed. Heating up to 28⁰c. Clothes hanging up in the bedroom drying.

Black mould creeping up everywhere.

A bottle of bleach is as cheap as 50p. A little bit of elbow grease and cracking a window open would sort this. Why is she moaning?

Get a job and go earn some money to go pay for a flat.