A MUM and her two kids are living in a flat with damp problems – but her housing association landlord has taken action.

Sinead Williams, 26, lives in a property in Fairmount Close, Worcester, which is managed by social housing landlord Citizen.

Her daughters, Eve-Mae, two, and Emily-Mae, eight, live with her.

Sinead said: “I rang the housing association before Christmas to tell them in my daughters rooms there is damp.

“They told me the gutters were causing the damp when they came out in December but they haven’t been back to sort it out.

“My eldest daughter, Emily-Mae’s asthma is affected by the damp.”

Sinead is also suffering and said the stress of the situation is making her mental health, for which she takes medication for, worse.

Sinead added: “It’s getting me down and I don’t like being in the flat.

“I’m looking at moving into the living room to sleep and giving my daughters my bed.

“I wish this would end.”

A Citizen spokesman said: “We were contacted by Ms William about damp in her home last month.

“After an inspection it became apparent this was being caused by gutters being blocked which was forcing water back towards the property.

“The damp could not be treated until the gutter had been cleared.

“This needed to be completed by a specialist external contractor, which resulted in it taking longer than usual.

“The gutter was cleaned out last week.

“We will now arrange an appointment to treat the damp and mould.”

Mould can cause a major impact on health, particularly in regards to young children, According to NHS guidelines.

Mould produces allergens which, if inhaled, can cause asthma attacks.

Damp and mould are caused by excess moisture. Moisture in buildings can be caused by leaking pipes, rising damp in basements or ground floors, or rain seeping in because of damage to the roof or around window frames.

In a newly built home damp can occur if the water used when the house was built is still drying out.

Excess moisture indoors can also be caused by condensation. Condensation forms when the air indoors can’t hold any more moisture. Cooking, showering, drying clothes indoors and breathing without adequate ventilation can all cause excess moisture.

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