Problems with 'damp'

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I was going to suggest some moisture traps - I have a few in my flat to keep condensation off the windows in winter - but I imagine you'd need an industrial strength trough-sized one for a place like that. Something is seriously wrong, definitely get out.
 
I must say, why would you move into a house like that in the first place, it's beyond bad.

went down into the basement and found a foot of stagnant water.
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Really? Shoes that are totally ruined from mould in a few days? It's unreal.
 
Sorting that is going to be a massive ball ache

The owner is going to need all plaster up to about 2 feet high removing, then all the grot thats underneath / behind the plaster removing and drying out, then the damproof course replaced, then replastered.

Weeks worth of very dusty, very grubby, awfull work.

I'd be staying somewhere else when that happens !

He can BS all he likes about it being too warm with little ventilation, that house has damp problems.
 
Get out of there.

My lungs are wrecked from living somewhere in far better condition than that! Run to the hills, your long-term health depends on it.
 
You'll get ill, get help - parents, friends, social services and move out. Seriously.

If for whatever reason she is incapable of taking this sensible action, leave every window open in the day and wear warm clothes if cold. Buy the most powerful dehumidifier you can (by the looks of it you need an industrial one not an argos one)
 
Maybe putting some Dehumidifiers around the house will help..

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Yeh there's something wrong with my lungs, but it's not too bad. The worst bit is I developed cholinergic urticaria (a kind of hives) which was very painful for a while. I'm going to buy a house and move out of this ****hole early next year.
 
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What did it do to you? Lung infection or something?
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Isn't this basically how Brittany Murphy died? Inhaling that stuff on a constant basis can lead to pneumonia or something similar.

The flat me and my brother live in has this problem in the front bedroom (not my bedroom, ahahaha). Nowhere near as bad as this example but spots of mould were showing on the curtains and on clothes that were left hanging up for a long period of time.

We have a dehumidifier in that room which collects about a litre of water every day and is a good enough temporary solution (and has stopped the mould and the damp smell), but after having the "you've been drying clothes indoors and that's what's causing it" routine, after living here for nearly 2 years there is finally some work being done on the rot in the whole building from top to bottom, new windows, walls being knocked through, etc. to take care of the damp as the people who own the entire building have finally admitted that it's a problem and sent the pros round.

Of course, this leads to the flat being uninhabitable for a while, but if I was living in a place as bad as the OP's example I'd be getting out ASAP.
 
I live in a place that has some damp on the walls in the winter but nothing like in the pics which is 1000 miles worse. omg. Absolutely horrible. I'd move asap.
 
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