Damp in my property I rent.

to be honest I think moving is the best idea, but the landlord seems to want to do right and fix this for me asap. I have had very crap landlords in the past and they have been a right pain in the backside. if only this problem wasnt here I would love to stay as having a very good landlord makes a massive difference.

I technically cannot move out till my 6 month agreement is up, unless there is a way out of it due to the damp, but i fear that the law would say the landlord needs a reasonable amount of time to fix the issue.
 
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cactusweasel said:
To be honest I think moving is the best idea, but the landlord seems to want to do right and fix this for me asap. I have had very crap landlords in the past and they have been a right pain in the backside. If only this problem wasnt here I would love to stay! As having a very good landlord makes a massive difference.
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I would stay, the next place could have issues too.

Better the devil you know n that.
 
Hyburnate said:
This- Explains the ventilation and surely the sudden change or the heat inside of the house would draw moisture in more.
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the property has been empty for a few months prior to me moving in, the cold winter combined with me having the heating on seems to have drawn mould inside the property, surely if they were growing plants they would have had the hosue warm and have had the mould issues themselves?
 
Sounds to me like the Landlord is doing the right thing here and not just giving you some quick fix either.
Let him fix the place and install the new Kitchen, if things don't improve, then hunt for another place afterwards.
I wouldn't leave now, as the above posters have already said, Proactive Landlords are hard to come by.
 
FTR, I was kicked out of my last place for complaining about mould in the property. :P

Got the notice the day after my wedding too. Which was nice. Worked out in the end, I live in an awesome place now.
 
When i bought my house i live in now in 2006 it needed a damp proof course putting in. My house was built in 1880 and has solid walls .When we viewed the house we knew it had damp and budgeted for this .

We had a damp proof course put in which is injected in to the walls . Then they take off the plaster up to waist height and put on a cement based type plaster which is water proof and stops hydroscopic salts <<< (not sure that's right spelling ) coming through then they replaster

This was done in 2006 and every thing is fine now !! no problems
 
cactusweasel said:
...they had sealed all the windows up with tape etc and they coulod not explain why they did this. Anyway, sealing any ventalation area's including windows could have made this issue worse maybe?
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What? That stupidness of the highest degree, how do people think fresh air gets into a property?
 
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Definately stay, he is doing the right thing with that (I should know, my dad's a builder :p).

Very rare you get landlords like that, he seems like he's genuine and wants to do right by his tenants!
 
Sounds like the landlord is doing the right things to sort it so I would stay. I'm still trying to get mine to sort out our hot water problems after 4 months.
 
Be glad the landlord is wanting to fix it, ask for a time frame, and see if they stick to it...Try and get it in writing mind, if they go past this date, chase it up etc.

We lived in a rented house last year that has damp EVERYWHERE, I ended up becoming short of breath just while sleeping, funnily enough when we moved out, I became better? We reported it, landlord just said to air the house more (we have windows ajar 24/7)

Quite pathetic really, you could see where they just painted over the old damp before we moved in...Sadly didn't notice this until we started cleaning off the damp...:(
 
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