So the landlady rang me tonight as i'm due to move out soon and she noticed damp.
She said that she's seen damp round the outside walls of the bathroom and inside. Basically, paint coming away from the skirting boards in the bathroom and some paper on the walls.
The walls round the outside a bit of paper bubbling and that on the corner of the wall signs of fungus. To me it looks like where the papers slightly damaged there is dry plaster. Then another side, in-side the living room the paper coming from the walls.
She's had a plumber round and they have suggested it could be the shower leaking through the tiles and into the walls.
So, she said she's going to be putting my deposit on hold until its looked into and she found the cause and surprised I didn't notice.
I've said, to be fair, the flats old and to me looks like it’s just coming away from the years and time it’s been up.
I asked then, "are you keeping the deposit due to my negligence of not notifying you?" She said, "well, normally you have rang me with problems and can't believe I didn't notice". To which I said again, "the flats old, look in all the rooms and you see paper coming away, I wasn't aware it was dampness".
Sometime ago we knocked that one corner with a bike which chipped the paper work, this could have either earthed that fungus or it is plaster. I guess I'll soon find out.
Can she hold my deposit, how can I avoid this? She said it wasn’t anything like this when we moved in. Incidentally, she gutting the bathroom when I move out anyway. yes the walls outside need to been sorted but how does this sort of thing run with the new laws on rent deposits?
She said that she's seen damp round the outside walls of the bathroom and inside. Basically, paint coming away from the skirting boards in the bathroom and some paper on the walls.
The walls round the outside a bit of paper bubbling and that on the corner of the wall signs of fungus. To me it looks like where the papers slightly damaged there is dry plaster. Then another side, in-side the living room the paper coming from the walls.
She's had a plumber round and they have suggested it could be the shower leaking through the tiles and into the walls.
So, she said she's going to be putting my deposit on hold until its looked into and she found the cause and surprised I didn't notice.
I've said, to be fair, the flats old and to me looks like it’s just coming away from the years and time it’s been up.
I asked then, "are you keeping the deposit due to my negligence of not notifying you?" She said, "well, normally you have rang me with problems and can't believe I didn't notice". To which I said again, "the flats old, look in all the rooms and you see paper coming away, I wasn't aware it was dampness".
Sometime ago we knocked that one corner with a bike which chipped the paper work, this could have either earthed that fungus or it is plaster. I guess I'll soon find out.
Can she hold my deposit, how can I avoid this? She said it wasn’t anything like this when we moved in. Incidentally, she gutting the bathroom when I move out anyway. yes the walls outside need to been sorted but how does this sort of thing run with the new laws on rent deposits?
