Landlord maintenance

Grisham78

So I've had an issue my apartment with dampness and moisture! I said to my landlord and he's way of trying to resolve an issue that he has no intentions of fixing under any circumstance.

He came to my apartment today and decided to dual random holes in the wall and put vents over them.

Saying I'm not impressed is an understatement.

He tried to argue that this was a legitimate way to resolve a moisture issue.

Is there any builders on this website that can debunk this absolute stupidity?

Sleeper12

Grisham78 wrote:

He tried to argue that this was a legitimate way to resolve a moisture issue.

This could well be a great solution. Every room should have an air vent. Are there rooms that have no vents?

Grisham78

Sleeper12 wrote: »

This could well be a great solution. Every room should have an air vent. Are there rooms that have no vents?

The plasterboard walls with a gap in between them and concrete external wall! He's drilled holes into the plasterboard and slapped vet over them! How is that a great idea? How was that going to improve anything?

Grisham78

Sleeper12 wrote: »

This could well be a great solution. Every room should have an air vent. Are there rooms that have no vents?

No the rooms don't have any vets in them!!

listermint

So has he put vents out to the outside envelope of the building?

If yes it's the most common solution to ensure air flow into and out of the space.

Grisham78

listermint wrote: »

So has he put vents out to the outside envelope of the building?

If yes it's the most common solution to ensure air flow into and out of the space.

No vets are not going outside at all! There's a plasterboard wall then theier is the outside external wall. The vets are on the internal plasterboard and do not go outside.

MicktheMan

Sounds like the external wall is drylined either on battens or dotn'dab and the holes are in the pb only and not through the masonry.
If so then OP is correct in that this is not a solution.

However, it being an apartment, the landlord does not actually own the external walls and has no authority to drill hole through it. This needs to be done by or on behalf of the management company for the complex.

policarp

Does every apartment in the same block have the same problem?

pippip

When we owned/lived in an apartment we had similar issues which we spent years trying to solve. At the end of the day ventilation was the only answer. Keep all vents open, even the ones within window frames. Don't dry clothes on heaters or if you do use an electric dehumidifier. When cooking keep lids on the pots and obviously when possible keep windows open. When showering use the extractor vent and keep door closed.

We bought from new and I would say it was much worse at the start, almost like the building had to "dry out" as the years went by we didn't seem to be as bad and didn't have to repaint as often.

We then became an accidental landlord and I had to explain all this to all our renters who sometimes questioned mould on certain walls etc.

How old is the apartment?