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I am new to this site, can anybody help me. I own a two bedroom flat, one where you walk in the front door and then up the stairs to the flat. I have rented this property out for five years with no problem until my last tenant.She said there was black coming on the wall above the lounge window and on the walls in the bedroom by the windows. I sent people to check roof and guttering, everything was fine. I sent people to look at outside walls as she thought it was rising damp. The company said it was condensation, and because the flat had no air bricks it could not escape. When I went to the flat she had washing hanging to dry on the curtain rail in the lounge and in the bedrooms she had washing on clothes horses around the heaters by the windows.The windows were soaking wet and the condensation was dripping off the window ledges and the walls were black. we are now in dispute as I have had to have vents put in the rooms and the walls washed down and painted with anti-fungal solution and redecorated. She says its because the flat has no air bricks. I am saying its because of the washing and condensation was so bad that it needed vents to dry out the flat. The flat is 30 yrs old and the other flats in the block have no problems and no air vents. When did builders start using airbricks?
I am new to this site, can anybody help me. I own a two bedroom flat, one where you walk in the front door and then up the stairs to the flat. I have rented this property out for five years with no problem until my last tenant.She said there was black coming on the wall above the lounge window and on the walls in the bedroom by the windows. I sent people to check roof and guttering, everything was fine. I sent people to look at outside walls as she thought it was rising damp. The company said it was condensation, and because the flat had no air bricks it could not escape. When I went to the flat she had washing hanging to dry on the curtain rail in the lounge and in the bedrooms she had washing on clothes horses around the heaters by the windows.The windows were soaking wet and the condensation was dripping off the window ledges and the walls were black. we are now in dispute as I have had to have vents put in the rooms and the walls washed down and painted with anti-fungal solution and redecorated. She says its because the flat has no air bricks. I am saying its because of the washing and condensation was so bad that it needed vents to dry out the flat. The flat is 30 yrs old and the other flats in the block have no problems and no air vents. When did builders start using airbricks?