To just walk out my council house.

Can you not get a plumber in to sort out the leaking wet room?

Even if you have to pay yourself, surely it would be worth it to solve all this upset

Sorry missed the can't afford private bit.

Yes I would leave
You will get much nicer privately
Do you have kids? If you do you might get housing benefit towards it too.

Do you have a decent squeegee? The fin shaped ones are excellent, especially if you have curved or awkward surfaces.

The more of the water you can get down the plug hole the better.

In terms of skirting. We have the pvc stuff. You can but it in 1m lengths from Amazon. You could trim the bottom of door with it too if it's rotting. Inexpensive and non permanent as you just silicone it on. Might make it a bit more liveable.

I hated our wet room too. We put a cubicle in but appreciate you don't have that option. Our best solution before that was an extra long shower curtain so it touched the floor and contained more of the water. I went for cheap white so it was easily bleached..

Are you tied to the location you're in now? Moving towns might seem drastic but the flat in in is about that and it's really decent!

So it's been sometime since I worked in social care assessing for housing adaptations but the ones you describe make absolutely no sense whatsoever. A wet room shouldn't have skirting boards in it at all. Also I don't understand why they have put the gas and electric meters at eye height. Adaptations are to support an individual be able to undertake activities of daily living independently. Reading meters wouldn't be seen as a significant ADL. Counterspace is absolutely a requirement to support independent and safe meal prep.
As many others have suggested try escalating again. If the issues aren't resolved then the MP will listen and should try amd support. Also speak to shelter and CAB.
Finally ask the housing for clarification in the adaptations made and for what purpose. You may then be able to challenge further. I can't see how these would be adaptations that would support many people. They certainly don't sound standard.
Do you have a lifetime tenancy at this property?? If so not allowing you to make changes seems absolutely bizarre.

Could you attach one of those hose shower kits to the washbasin and use a portable bath to contain the water when showering?

How much do you pay for it per month?

Yeah I’d be taking that further and I say that as a smoker.

Can you join a local gym to be able to shower there a few times a week and then just strip wash on other days? For £20 a month you could use their facilities and just stop showering at your house altogether. Sounds extreme but if you have tried every other avenue then might be worth a shot. At least it would probably dry out the walls and mean that you don’t have damp in other rooms as well as the bathroom.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-39602540

How about a pop up bath? Or even using a kids paddling pool as as shower tray.
Not ideal i know but it may help

@SecretBanta Some social housing tenants do work and wouldnt have time to clean a whole bathroom every single morning.

Have you tried contacting the environmental health team at your local authority?

This happened to a friend of ours, he was in an adapted property (which he needed), the wetroom hadn’t been done properly so water was entering the walls and the floor. The water entering the walls made the surrounding kitchen and bedroom very damp. The LA decided fitting an extractor fan and providing a dehumidifier was sufficient. They also spent almost 16 months gas lighting him and saying it was how he was using the property. It was only solved when the flooring under the lino stuff they used for the wetroom became so rotten it collapsed completely.

The HA weren’t interested despite social services and environmental health being involved, unfortunately HAs often ignore their own published policies as they are aware that a lot of tenants simply don’t have the means to have them enforced.

Do you/your child have a social worker due to DV, they may also be able to help?

@CoconutSky IMO the new Social Housing Bill is just going to force tenants even more so than now to have incompetent contractors in their homes

This is how people, myself included until fairly recently, have to live. In my case, it was a combination of the same wet/mould that OP is struggling with, I have also had times where I have had to do this to save money, or because i couldn't afford a plumber when very old and faulty pipes started leaking all over the house.

If you can get the local paper interested in running a story about it you might embarrass them into acting, councils hate bad publicity (I used to work in the sector). But if you don't want to go public after experiencing DV then get your MP onto it, especially as you have children. I remember last year a child died because of a damp flat in Rochdale and Michael Gove announced the government would implement Awaab's Law which said that landlords had to fix complaints about damp and mould in a certain timeframe. I just looked it up for you and it says this "This regulation requires landlords to guarantee properties are mould-free and provide adequate ventilation. If there are any health or safety concerns that are ignored within the property, landlords may face severe penalties under Awaab's Law." Don't walk out of your house though - you might find private rentals are just as bad and more expensive. Best of luck xxx

Industrial dehumidifier(s) would work - but a) they are large, b) they are expensive, c) they are very noisy, and d) they gobble up electricity.

(When my property was badly flooded, the dehumidifiers saved the property's ceilings and internal walls from having to be reconstructed).

it all sounds pretty shit, compounded by the huge and brave change you've made by fleeing DV. Which change and trauma you've gone through may be making things seem worse than they actually are

Strip wash bucket 2024 in UK housing!!!