My rotting & mouldy house nearly killed my baby – now housing association want to charge me £600 a MONTH to fix it

A DAD’S rotting and mouldy location astir killed his babe - and the lodging relation wants to complaint him £600 a period to hole it.

Fuming Rhys Nicol said his three-month-old lad Azair was truthful sick helium was “throwing up green”. 

The tot was past diagnosed with Respiratory syncytial microorganism (RSV) - a perchance fatal thorax infection.

Dad-of-one Rhys, 18, said his location successful Attleborough, Norfolk, is truthful mouldy the windowsills and walls are covered successful “blacky-green fur and spots” and the bath has “red dots” each implicit it.

However, his biggest interest was uncovering his baby’s mattress and nursery were “smothered” successful mould.   

"The mould spot was bigger than my baby," helium told the Sun.

Rhys says helium requested a dehumidifier from lodging relation Places for People doubly betwixt October and December to nary avail.

“I sent them grounds of my 83 per cent humidity levels but I ne'er got anything,” helium explained.

Rhys past forked retired £700 to bargain a dehumidifier and aerial purifier himself.

"I’m pulling 24 litres of h2o a time and we’ve mislaid 2 expansive worthy of stuff," said the young dad.

The household person present been moved to impermanent accommodation an hr distant successful Cromer, Norfolk, portion they hold for the lodging relation to lick the problem.

It meant they spent Christmas distant from loved ones.

He added: "It was the archetypal 1 my mum would person spent with her grandson."

Rhys informed the lodging relation helium had contacted his section MP George Freeman - and told them helium wanted to move. 

He said they responded by yet giving him 2 dehumidifiers.

ELECTRICITY BILL

Rhys’ torment was further compounded erstwhile helium recovered his energy measure was £627 successful January, "because the dehumidifiers are there".

Rhys said that the measure is usually £139.

He said: “It’s affected my recognition rating, but I can’t shell retired that overmuch erstwhile I’m not there.

"The partition astir the mould goes a grey watercolour. They're connected the windowsills up the walls, successful our bedroom, successful the nursery.”

Rhys explained that helium didn’t announcement the mould initially owed to the bottommost expanse and mattress protector.

“When we went to bash a heavy clean, it was perfectly covered,” helium continued. 

“It went done a waterproof fabric, done the wood, the mattress and backmost onto the mattress topper. That mould was bigger than the size of our baby. It was scary."

The kid was conscionable 4 weeks aged astatine the time.

Rhys took his lad to the doc aft the babe erstwhile his vomit turned green.

"A week aboriginal we went backmost due to the fact that his breathing was getting worse,” helium explained. 

“He had an atrocious cough and they said ‘we deliberation it's bronchitis’."

Rhys said helium showed the GP a representation of the mould successful his location and they said “that's wherefore and helium has developed RSV".

He added: “My kid is 2 months aged and he's not well."

Prior to the determination to Cromer, helium said Places for People offered him impermanent accommodation successful Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire - astir 2 hours away.

"I said I'm not going to determination my beingness to different region and back," Rhys said.

He said the lodging relation has offered to compensate him for “everything damaged”, including clothes, the sofa and a mattress - but lone if helium “rips everything up first”.

The Sun has approached Places for People for comment.

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