Fed up Wiganer wants to leave his damp and mouldy house

Wigan Today

Michael Green, 56, is fed up of the mould and rising damp that fills his house.  He can't go upstairs due to health problems, so he spends all his time downstairs and says the damp is everywhere.  It's a council-owned house and he had the rear living room and kitchen refurbished only two years ago, but already they're full of mould again. He says all the carpets are wet too.  He wants the council to do something.

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00:00 Every day I'm having to sleep in a damp, mouldy bed, which costs me a lot of money.

00:11 All my clothes keep going damp all the time with mould.

00:20 My front living room window frame's all falling out with all the damp.

00:27 The floors are soaking wet.

00:30 It's the same in the rear living room with black mould and the mould all around my fire

00:40 surround and the walls.

00:44 My kitchen, my washing machine that was in perfect working order I went to use a week

00:52 later but wouldn't work because rising damp had got in it.

00:58 I've had to buy a new washing machine.

01:01 Now my cooker is corroded away at the bottom and full of mould on the inside of the oven

01:09 as well as black mould all over the firewall and in the kitchen cupboard.

01:17 I'm in desperate need to move, which I'm actually down as urgent priority at the moment for

01:26 a move to a bungalow.

01:33 So I've been bidding for property since January but not getting anywhere at the moment.

01:40 But at the same time I can't continue living the way I am because I have to sleep in my

01:51 front living room because I can't get up and down the stairs because I've had falls down

01:56 the stairs.

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