In before people blame the tenants for drying their clothes indoors.
It’s mad that people think you shouldn’t do that to avoid mould. Every place I’ve lived in back in the Netherlands, I’ve always dried my clothes indoors, no issues whatsoever with mould. It’s colder and wetter in Western Netherlands than in London. 3 months after I’ve moved here to my horror I saw mould build up around the doors, windows and the shower, I fear the shower is not installed properly as well as damp is getting into the walls.
It’s the fucked up housing in this country that’s the problem.
I think we all know that most of this housing stock should have been demolished and rebuilt at least a decade ago.
Black mould will grow in any house as it is caused by high humidity usually due to lack of ventilation. If you seal a big box and fill it with warm wet air then you will get mould.
Any housing provider who is supplying defective property (broken door, water in light fittings, infestation) should not be able to charge for its use.
Victorian slums were a world away from the housing in this article though: 4-5 people in a room, single glazed at best, no windows at worst, no electricity, potentially no mains water or drainage, heat from solid fuel burner only, rats, toilet (hole) outside etc
There is a housing shortage in the UK. That’s really the bottom line of why homes are so expensive. Obviously homes need minimum standards of quality and safety, and regulations around this are good things.
But simultaneously, there are way too many regulations and barriers to building new homes, which further impedes the creation of new homes, which makes homes more expensive.
This should be front page news
> Some send him videos of their children, asleep, gasping for breath because of the damp, others where their children’s eczema is getting inflamed by the mould they are living in. The severity is terrifying.
> He has been working to support the family of Awaab Ishak, the two-year-old boy who died from a respiratory condition caused by “extensive” mould in the one-bedroom flat where he lived. It has led to a new proposal from ministers for “Awaab’s Law” that would force social landlords to investigate and fix damp and mould in social housing within strict time limits.
Having worked on housing association homes previously, I’d say 90% of damp related issues are down to simple defects such as missing roof slates or blocked or cracked rainwater pipes.
These never get fixed because the contractors used by housing associations are on wafer thing fixed term contractor so if you’re lucky enough to get them to turn up, they will do the bare minimum like painting the internal wall, rather than address the real issue.
Housing stock quality in the UK is good, but you need to maintain it and it boils my piss that people are being forced to living in squalid conditions when the solution is so simple.
I got offered a job as a site manager for a housing association and I turned it down because I know a lot of them put profits over people.
Couldn’t live with myself if I had to lie to people and tell them major moisture ingress issues are caused by them not opening a window enough…
I was told I breathed to much and my shower curtain was ‘to thick’…. Yep all completely my fault/s
He should just move into a nicer place. It’s not rocket science.
I’m not sure if there’s the concept of room in the UK.
But I believe it would be convenient to have a boiler room along with a dry room, as it’s usually warm in there.
Even though it’s technically not their responsibility to fix it, I don’t understand the mentality of people who would sit with damp, mould and a broken door for over a year instead of doing something about it.
Landlords are leeches on society who produce nothing and can’t even be bothered to fix their assets that they rent out at an extortionate rate.
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In before people blame the tenants for drying their clothes indoors.
It’s mad that people think you shouldn’t do that to avoid mould. Every place I’ve lived in back in the Netherlands, I’ve always dried my clothes indoors, no issues whatsoever with mould. It’s colder and wetter in Western Netherlands than in London. 3 months after I’ve moved here to my horror I saw mould build up around the doors, windows and the shower, I fear the shower is not installed properly as well as damp is getting into the walls.
It’s the fucked up housing in this country that’s the problem.
I think we all know that most of this housing stock should have been demolished and rebuilt at least a decade ago.
Black mould will grow in any house as it is caused by high humidity usually due to lack of ventilation. If you seal a big box and fill it with warm wet air then you will get mould.
Any housing provider who is supplying defective property (broken door, water in light fittings, infestation) should not be able to charge for its use.
Victorian slums were a world away from the housing in this article though: 4-5 people in a room, single glazed at best, no windows at worst, no electricity, potentially no mains water or drainage, heat from solid fuel burner only, rats, toilet (hole) outside etc
It’s a bit of a rock and a hard place.
https://www.centreforcities.org/publication/the-housebuilding-crisis/#:~:text=There%20is%20a%20backlog%20of,as%20they%20were%20never%20built.
There is a housing shortage in the UK. That’s really the bottom line of why homes are so expensive. Obviously homes need minimum standards of quality and safety, and regulations around this are good things.
But simultaneously, there are way too many regulations and barriers to building new homes, which further impedes the creation of new homes, which makes homes more expensive.
This should be front page news
> Some send him videos of their children, asleep, gasping for breath because of the damp, others where their children’s eczema is getting inflamed by the mould they are living in. The severity is terrifying.
> He has been working to support the family of Awaab Ishak, the two-year-old boy who died from a respiratory condition caused by “extensive” mould in the one-bedroom flat where he lived. It has led to a new proposal from ministers for “Awaab’s Law” that would force social landlords to investigate and fix damp and mould in social housing within strict time limits.
Having worked on housing association homes previously, I’d say 90% of damp related issues are down to simple defects such as missing roof slates or blocked or cracked rainwater pipes.
These never get fixed because the contractors used by housing associations are on wafer thing fixed term contractor so if you’re lucky enough to get them to turn up, they will do the bare minimum like painting the internal wall, rather than address the real issue.
Housing stock quality in the UK is good, but you need to maintain it and it boils my piss that people are being forced to living in squalid conditions when the solution is so simple.
I got offered a job as a site manager for a housing association and I turned it down because I know a lot of them put profits over people.
Couldn’t live with myself if I had to lie to people and tell them major moisture ingress issues are caused by them not opening a window enough…
I was told I breathed to much and my shower curtain was ‘to thick’…. Yep all completely my fault/s
He should just move into a nicer place. It’s not rocket science.
I’m not sure if there’s the concept of room in the UK.
But I believe it would be convenient to have a boiler room along with a dry room, as it’s usually warm in there.
Even though it’s technically not their responsibility to fix it, I don’t understand the mentality of people who would sit with damp, mould and a broken door for over a year instead of doing something about it.
Landlords are leeches on society who produce nothing and can’t even be bothered to fix their assets that they rent out at an extortionate rate.