To think our house is making DC sick

Air and heat bedroom well, vacuum a lot. Have you tried and anti histamine?

Can you stay with your family?

DS and I would be ill living with that, we both are allergic to mould. DS was really ill when we renovated a room for him and had to move out after 3 weeks. We knew it was mould as I could feel it but couldn’t work out where it was coming from. We literally had to rip the room to pieces before finding that the electrician had split water onto sawdust created sawing joist under the floor to install new working. We cleaned it but it took years before it felt right again.

I would try a GP letter to the council and see if that works but would think it may well not, depending on your council so you are going to have to solve it yourself. Ask the landlord if you can replace the carpet with hard flooring.

This is decent for the price :
https://www.onlinecarpets.co.uk/products/castillo-7mm-laminate-flooring?Aylesbury%20Oak

Agree with the dehumidifier. Look in Facebook market place, we got one for a tenner and currently there is a free one on our local site.

As others have said, no drying washing, dehumidifier running constantly during the day. It will take weeks to improve. We find HG mould spray pretty effective to get rid of it temporarily and then Wickes anti fungal wash which keeps it at bay for some time in our unheated porch but I wouldn’t be keen on using them with young children so would treat with vinegar I think and then once cleaned off would paint with Zinsser mould killing primer and then their anti mould paint.

Daily airing, adequate heating, dehumidifier during the day and when raining check that gutters emptying properly, furniture some distance from wall. Look at outside for any cracked render or pointing and if any problem with that or gutter ask landlord to rectify.

You need to get a job, your partner needs to get a second job, you need to get some control over your life and you need to move. All of them urgent.

Mould is really hard to go rid of. Our bathroom and bedroom both get mouldy. We cleaned it, painted it with anti mould paint and it still comes back (although the paint did work for several months)
We're renting so like you there's only so much we can do. As family won't listen are you on the list for a council house, which are generally cheaper, although hard to come by.
I really wouldn't want to put a baby in that environment. Ask the family about using anti mould paint short term and look up charities like Shelter and see if they can offer any advice or help.
With your DD can you take her to a different doctor? Or just keep nagging them. Chase up ENT too. If that comes back clear you will have a stronger case to insist GP does more investigations.

Do what you can, for now. We discovered mould when we moved into our house. I cleaned the walls and windows with neat, thick bleach, left it on, then wiped away with boiling water on a clean cloth, rubbed dry with rags and threw all the cloths away. Then bought a dehumidifier and moved it around the rooms affected. I air the rooms every day. It hasn't come back.

You and your partner appear very passive in sorting your lives out. I'd be working all the hours to get myself out of this situation. You can work while you are pregnant, what were you doing before ?

Look up the culbersons on Instagram. They had the same thing with their son and he was even diagnosed with adhd.

they sorted a lot of things out and he was miraculously cured.

Please, need some urgent help

I understand the situation, but struggle as to what help could be provided in this format.

It appears you have zero control over the place you are living in, as you are not the tenants on the lease, and the tenants in the lease wish to do nothing which is their right.

The only solution is for you to leave but you claim you can’t leave. Then the only thing you can do is see if you can achieve a letter from the Dr stating child’s health concerns are caused by the mould in your housing. Take that to housing and see if they can find you emergency accommodation. However, emergency accommodation can often stretch out for years potentially and you may find yourselves in one room in a hostel with drinks or addicts in the rooms next door frankly.

For the mould to be in all different areas it would seem to indicate it’s not a damp problem but a general ventilation problem so you need to address that and also clean the mould daily if necessary.

Had your child been tested for pet allergies? If it turns out to be that, what will you do, as you seem to have moved into the tenants spare space, so you can’t ask them to get rid of pets.

Ultimately, you need to move and preferably before the baby is born as the answer to your urgent problem. Whether that’s emergency temp accom (again, rarely good or fit for children), or you move away to a much cheaper area, otherwise there’s nothing else you can do really.

I dont understand why you would think its ok to bring another baby into that environment?

I get black mould in bedroom. Been a problem for 8 years on and off.
A couple of things. I used a black mould remover spray. Under two pounds. I understand with chemicals but I wiped with water after. I used kitchen roll and left for the recommended time so it didn't run.
Fill any cracks in the room. I noticed mould around cracks.
Open the window daily. Remove any black mould silicone and redo with one of those guns and tubes. There may not be enough silicone around the window frames. Fairly cheap.
Wipe down windows and window ledge daily.
Invest in a dehumidifier one that matches the square footage for your room. You can get them for 40 to 100 pounds. And empty it as often as needed.
If you can afford to replace the flooring for a hard floor as its easier to keep clean.
Don't use lots of water for cleaning.
If you have a vent in the room. Don't cover it. If insects come through it. You can change the plastic cover cheaply. Like under a tenner.
Keep the furniture away from the walls.
Reduce the soft toys in the room. Or wash weekly at 60 plus wash or on an allergy wash.
Check the bed if fabric or wood for white mould or black mould or green. Mine was on the underside of the mattress. And also on the back of drawers that are wood.
I also have an electric fire in the living room when used the mould breeds behind it.
Treat the back of furniture if infected with black mould spray. Then use an anti mould paint on your walls to stop it returning. Or even paint it on the backings of drawer etc.
Black mould or any mould can hide behind wall paper. Can you ask to strip the walls and offer to pay and paint it? With an anti mould paint.
Black mould also ran along my pipes where the heating was. under the paper. But only on the lining paper. When removed it wasn't on the walls. It also can be behind radiators.
I had mould in various rooms.
Good luck with this.

Yes it can - we had a leak in our home we owned that caused mould and I had to have an inhaler for a bit - we fixed it and I felt so much better

we had a huge dehumidifier in the kitchen for a month to sort it (and the leak needed to be fixed) and ours was just one wall

I think you need to work out if and what your child is allergic to
I would say its more likely to be the animals or dust than mold you are wiping off regularly.
Next why is the room damp? Are you drying washing? Is the place adequately heated and ventilated?
Get a dehumidifier. Even the gel ones that cost about a quid are effective.

Get some HG bathroom mould remover spray, go round spraying every visible bit of mould on the walls and just leave it. The spray should eat the mould right up. It is strong so open windows. For the carpets God knows, carpet shampooer?

Open windows, especially the bedroom. EXtra covers if necessary.
Can you go round washing off the worst of it.
It will prob come back but if you use cleaning fluid with bleach in it that should slow its return.
I don't like the sound of it being in carpets. Can you lift and replace with a rug. Give floor a good wash first.
I use H&G spray to kill the mould in my 20 year old shower, spray and leave to let it work, and the shower has no mould but it has a strong bleach in the spray so no good for round the house but you could cautiously use in in corners of windows etc out of reach of dogs and kids.

Have you offered to pay to get the problem sorted?

or are you soo entitled that you think your husband’s family that’s hosting you should find the money to solve a problem that’s not impacting them ?

Because it’s selfish and irresponsible and what a surprise, someone else has to pick up the cost. Neither of them work and yet they’re having another baby despite literally not being able to afford a safe home. Meanwhile my husband and I work full time, pay for our childcare, pay for our housing and baby no. 2 is on the back burner until we can afford it. People need to take some personal responsibility and realise that whilst they might want a second child, if they can’t afford to raise a baby in a safe place then they should not have one.

As a child I lived in a cold damp house without central heating and from November to March every year I was like this - continual catarrh and a runny nose. Moved out at 18 to uni and halls of residence with central heating and it cleared up immediately never to return. It is the house.

You could get a dehumidifier, about a 20 litre one, from Toolstation for example, about £80?. They are cheap to run.. ours shows the percent humidity in the room, that is often 65-70 percent when we first put it on. Then after about 4-6 hours, it's down to 55 percent and the air in the room feels a lot drier. The smell of damp is reduced and the room feels warmer. I run it in my kids bedroom when they are at school. They don't like the noise of it. I think your problem is indoor condensation like ours and that this will massively help reduce it. It's given us time to do the bigger stuff like re wallpaper and change the room layout. Our 1960s house doesn't have ventilation and the others in my family refuse to sleep with the window open a crack. Good luck.

That first picture looks like an air flow issue on a cold North facing wall that has caused condensation to me. Did you pull out a bulky piece of furniture and find the mould behind it? We had similar issues in our old house's back room which was North East facing. I put a large chair in the corner and found something almost identical behind it, plus the back of the chair was mouldy. I panicked that we "had damp" and ordered a survey, the surveyor was very laid back and said if you put bulky furniture against the wall in a North-,East facing room that doesn't have good air circulation, you will get that result. The room had patio doors instead of a window and so ventilating it was a bit trickier in Winter.

I moved the furniture, made sure that corner stayed free of furniture that would impede airflow, cleaned the wall and repainted, and made sure to open the doors a crack for an hour or two every day...and bugger me but it was solved.

At the end of the day, you can test your Dc until the cows come home, but that won’t help if she’s living in a house full of mould.
Black mould thrives in damp cold conditions. You have to open the windows and turn up the heating. Otherwise there’s no point cleaning it off.

If you can afford it, you need to buy a dehumidifier. Ours is from Argos. Buy one with as big a capacity as possible.

They have a very low running cost after the initial purchase. Mould forming in corners and around windows etc is where the moisture in the air is condensing on a cold surface. If you reduce that moisture, you should see a big reduction in mould forming.

Older houses were not designed to be used the way we do now, we add so much more water into the air with showers, drying washing etc.

Op can you not take the carpet up? I know a lot of people are saying use this and that to clean skirting boards but washing up liquid and boiling water will do a lot. Air the house well too and look into dealing professionally with it if you can’t move but I’d say talk to your dh framing it as getting on a council list so ye can live on your own as a family

Are you on the social housing list?

Keep going to GP about child's illnesses

Declare yourself homeless to the council as the house is unsuitable

Move to a cheaper area and rent

Give your child antihistamines daily

Wash their bedding every few days. Wash curtains

Shampoo the carpets

Buy a dehumidifier for worst rooms

Get those little pots from home bargains that suck up moisture for every room

Open windows daily

Don't dry wet clothes in the house

It could also be a pet allergy?

You need to contact the council and explain you need housing and then sort out a UC claim so you can move out into a suitable home. If you’re in an expensive area with high demand accept a move to a different area. You will have 3 years before you have to start looking for work so plenty of time to get yourself sorted.
IME mould only grows where there is water ingress or significant amounts of water vapour are in the air.m from cooking, drying clothes or showering. Heating a house sufficiently does help