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submitted 1 year ago by Rawdogg@lemm.ee to c/badrealestate@feddit.uk

Househunting at the moment and came across this gem

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Is that mold?! I knew Ireland was wet and humid but goddamn.

[-] Rawdogg@lemm.ee 73 points 1 year ago

Yes that is black mold, it's a problem in a lot of unventilated houses here but I've never seen it this bad. Shocking that somebody sleeps in that room, in other pictures you can see discarded inhalers on the floor.

[-] Violet_McQuasional@feddit.uk 40 points 1 year ago

It's really bad that people end up living like this.

[-] li10@feddit.uk 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

God damn.

The responsibility should obviously be on the landlord if it’s rented, but if you’re actually having to live there regardless then I don’t know why you wouldn’t attempt to clean it…

It’s going to come back again, but it would be better than nothing.

[-] Arrakis@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I knew someone who lived in a rented bottom floor flat in a converted house with mould like this. She scrubbed the walls more or less every day, tried every product under the sun, had dehumidifiers running when she could afford the extra power draw... but the mould bloomed through the paint again so quickly it made essentially no difference to the air quality, and little to the stains that developed. The landlord would paint over it every once in a while and acted as if they were doing her a huge favour by doing so.

Oddly enough, once she could afford to move out her unexplained health issues improved immensely...

Sorry that became a very big rant.

TL;DR cleaning the mould religiously doesn't necessarily stop it from looking like that after a while

[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Def looks like a neckbeard gamer den

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 31 points 1 year ago

That's all suitably horrific but what is the black cloth hiding?

[-] Saneless@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago

Spot on the wall that doesn't have mold, makes it look weird

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

Makes sense. And here's my wondering if it was furry porn.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago

That's not a black cloth, that's decades of dust-covered cobwebs draped over each other.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

I call that "Halloween-ready".

[-] apis@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Denser layers of black mould!

[-] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago

I didn’t know you could get a house when you purchase black mould!

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But does it come with the Vader portrait?

[-] PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I never knew Vader had a beard until I saw this picture!

[-] DrunkenPirate@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Selfie of the owner?

[-] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Now that's mouldy!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

That's the weirdest wallpaper pattern I've ever seen.

[-] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 11 points 1 year ago

It's unique and changes the more you breathe its spores.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Ireland doesn't have some endemic species of black mold that's actually harmless to humans... does it?

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Looks healthy

this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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