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<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 538819" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>I have almost given up commenting on this issue, but not quite.</p><p></p><p>I will just say 2 things. We had a rental flat that we let for about 10 years. We only had ONE tenant who had a problem with damp. On inspection, the flat was cold, heating barely if ever used, all trickle vents closed, bathroom fan switched off (that is when I learned NEVER have a fan isolator switch in a rental) and wet washing hanging everywhere.</p><p></p><p>No tenant before or after that one had any issues with damp.</p><p></p><p>But further, this is a symptom of the LOUSY state of much of the UK's housing stock with many properties having little or no insulation, very high heating costs, no proper house wide ventilation system, so unless you pump a lot of heat in you WILL have problems. But to properly fix this rubbish housing is a BIG job. That is the elephant in the room that people are slowly waking up to.</p><p></p><p>So what are these newspaper articles wanting? the landlords (whoever they are) to spend a fortune on every single rental property, to bring it up to a decent state of insulation?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 538819, member: 6969"] I have almost given up commenting on this issue, but not quite. I will just say 2 things. We had a rental flat that we let for about 10 years. We only had ONE tenant who had a problem with damp. On inspection, the flat was cold, heating barely if ever used, all trickle vents closed, bathroom fan switched off (that is when I learned NEVER have a fan isolator switch in a rental) and wet washing hanging everywhere. No tenant before or after that one had any issues with damp. But further, this is a symptom of the LOUSY state of much of the UK's housing stock with many properties having little or no insulation, very high heating costs, no proper house wide ventilation system, so unless you pump a lot of heat in you WILL have problems. But to properly fix this rubbish housing is a BIG job. That is the elephant in the room that people are slowly waking up to. So what are these newspaper articles wanting? the landlords (whoever they are) to spend a fortune on every single rental property, to bring it up to a decent state of insulation? [/QUOTE]
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