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.