71-year-old Thurso man on oxygen talks about damp mould issues at his home
Severely disabled man Peter Bodek from Thurso talks about the severe damp mould issues at his house. The 71-year-old has heart and breathing problems and uses oxygen to breathe.
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00:00 Okay Peter, how long... I'm looking at the mould, that's kind of green mould I can see
00:10 on your walls here in Thurso and it's up on the curtains, above the curtains, this is
00:18 your bedroom and how long have you been living here like this?
00:24 In November. You've been here since November?
00:27 Yeah. Was it like this when you moved in?
00:29 Not like this, it wasn't cold or anything as such and all of a sudden it turned cold
00:35 and everything. We had problems here trying to get the heating sorted, we got it sorted
00:40 in the end as such but the cost of it and everything, you can't afford to... they're
00:48 so old these thingy bobs.
00:50 The flats?
00:51 They were heating as well, yeah. I wonder if it's actually insulated and things because
00:59 you fill the wall, it's like ice and you have the heating on.
01:03 Yes, it's cold. So the mould that you're showing me here, it's right up above the window and
01:11 around this vent.
01:12 Yeah, the vent, of course, any way, anything comes, it goes straight through, blows everything
01:19 through. It's so drafty when the wind blows, you've got the curtains in the room, it moves
01:24 things.
01:25 That is terrible.
01:26 It's warmer outside than what it is inside.
01:29 Yeah, it's really cold, I just obviously can't come across in the video and they say in other
01:34 rooms as well, as bad as this.
01:37 Not as bad as this, this one is the worst one.
01:39 Yeah, okay.
01:40 Because it's got the big vent here, of course, it comes as such and it brings it in.
01:48 Okay, okay.
01:49 So everything comes in basically through this wall and that's it. It goes through because
01:57 above the door, the vents above each door, if you look at the door over there, you go
02:01 out and that way, and it blows out through the doors and the windows and everything.
02:07 Ah, right, right.
02:08 It's blinding still, if you ask me.
02:10 So you've got, I mean, it's obvious that you've got breathing issues. You're carrying an oxygen
02:16 cylinder.
02:17 Yeah, I've got oxygen, yeah.
02:19 So and you've been like that for years.
02:22 I've been on oxygen for over 20 years.
02:28 And have you found your health much worse since you've been in here?
02:31 Yes, it's getting worse at the moment, yes.
02:34 Yes, yes, okay.
02:35 Because the ambulance people have been out as such and they are very, very concerned
02:41 about this.
02:42 Okay, and your doctor is as well?
02:44 The doctor is. I've got in touch with my own doctor and my own doctor is doing things as
02:49 well.
02:50 Yeah. Okay, listen, thanks. Thanks for that little bit of an interview there. Thanks,
02:55 Peter.