'I've had years of hell due to mouldy home - I even considered camping with my family instead'

Fiona Kirkwood said she has been near feeling "depressed" owed to "horrendous" mould spoiling her furnishings and blackening her walls and windows

A section assembly has been slammed by a mum who has faced "years of hellhole owed to a mouldy home" - and is present considering "camping successful the winter."

Mum-of-three Fiona Kirkwood lives astatine location with sons Lewis, 20, Jack, 18, Harry, 16, and her boyfriend, whose children Leo, eight, and Jack, six sojourn each different weekend. However, she has been near feeling "depressed'" owed to "horrendous" mould spoiling her furnishings and blackening her walls and windows.

The fed-up mum is considering camping extracurricular successful the acold this wintertime with her household due to the fact that the contented has go truthful bad. And Ms Kirkwood has blasted her section assembly successful Southampton, Hants, due to the fact that 'nothing has been done to effort to help' her.

Mould archetypal blighting her location 2 years agone and contractors carried retired repairs and damp-proofing, but the occupation returned conscionable months aboriginal and is getting progressively worse. Now she feels she is being ignored by Southampton City Council.

Ms Kirkwood said: "It's travel backmost with a vengeance, it's 10 times worse. There is damp everyplace - nether my bed, connected the sofa. We've had to person a caller sofa arsenic it was covered successful mould. Sometimes I consciousness similar it's warmer extracurricular than wrong my house.

"I consciousness truthful depressed astir it. Nothing has been done to effort to help, but offering maine proposal astir keeping my windows open. It's been hell, conscionable horrendous, It's freezing acold and damp and it's truly getting maine down. It's affecting my relationships and I don't adjacent privation to beryllium astatine home. I'd alternatively enactment away. I'd alternatively campy extracurricular than unrecorded astatine that house."

A spokesperson for Southampton City Council said they instrumentality reports of mould "seriously" and would inspect her home, it said: "We are atrocious that [Ms Kirkwood] has been experiencing mould related problems successful her home.

"As a liable societal landlord, we instrumentality reports of mould and damp astatine our properties seriously. We are successful interaction with [Ms Kirkwood] to put a sojourn to inspect her spot astatine a clip astir convenient for her, and we volition enactment with [Ms Kirkwood] to rectify the problems successful her home.

"We cognize that this is simply a interest crossed the country, and the assembly is committed to addressing each contented of damp and mould that we are alert of."