AIBU to want the council to do something about my giant bathroom mushrooms?

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Around 3 months ago 2 giants mushrooms suddenly started growing out a wall at skirting board level in the bathroom

Ripped right through the wallpaper and were as big as my palm after one week

I'm a council tenant in a block of flats so called the council and they came and stuck a prod in the wall and advised the wall was sodden so they would have to get work men in as there was likely a leak in the communal pipes behind the wall

Someone came and opened up the panels on the walls, then a plumber came and said yes there is a leak somewhere, leave it with us

Then they came and replaced the panel and signed off on the job and said the source of the problem had been found and rectified and I should have no more problems.

However I have two new mushrooms again

Do I complain again? Surely a batroom should not have mushrooms growing out the wall? (how the jeff does a wall even grow and cultivate a damn mushroom)

there are different stages to dry rot, some are fungi-like, some strandy/fluffy stuff

the dry rot we had was like massive yellowy bracket fungi that you get on tree trunks, and was just above the skirting board level.

MissPenelope - I expect a LOT of student houses have either wet or dry rot or mould of some sort

No when you touch them they disintegrate into a a million pieces of mushroom fairy dust that has to be hoovered up so no possibility if drawing eyes on them

Thinking about it, mushrooms that are strong enough to grow out of a plaster wall and rip through wallpaper yet turn to dust when you touch them?

I have fairies living behind the bathroom don't I and this is their extension! No planning permission though

I love this thread

Sorry OP, I am of no use whatsoever.

I would love to see a photo though, hint hint.

Maybe they are not mushrooms, but plaster bubbles?

Send a photo to your local paper and MP if the council don't agree to come straight back and fix it.

Sounds like dry rot to me, we had it in one of our old houses, it looked as someone said above like those weird mushroom type funghi that you see around the bases of trees. We'd scrape them all off and by the next morning they'd have grown again! They come out of the walls by the doorframes and skirting boards. Horrible stuff and potentially quite serious, it has to be treated with nasty chemicals and any affected woodwork etc ripped out and replaced. Get on to the council again and don't take no for an answer!!!

This was my dry rot...

I hope you'll come back with an update, OP, and that it will all be properly sorted very soon.

OMG Oakmaiden that is awful!

Wow wallpaper ripping mushrooms is quite quite extreme! Hope you get it sorted.

It's growing again but I have organised a new council surveyor to come on Monday morning

So hopefully they will actually do something this time?

But if fungi is established in your wall I doubt a plumber coming up and treating a leak from above, which they have already treated will get rid of it

Is there anything I can do? Do I bleach it daily?

if it were as simple as bleaching it daily, there would not be a market for businesses that professionally treat it

we had to have our bathroom sealed off with polythene sheeting and tape over the door for a day or 2 while the noxious stuff worked. luckily we had a separate shower room/loo!
this was 20+ years ago though and there may be less invasive/disruptive/toxic remedies now

Hearts I had quite a lengthy debate with the landlord's agent, who wouldn't come out to see said fungal growth, as he said it was probably caused by my not opening the windows when I put the tumble drier on. I said "OK, I will make sure there is plenty of ventilation when I tumble dry, but really, that is not what this is". He wouldn't be told though - when I finally emailed a picture the landlord was there within 24 hours with big sprays of chemicals and stuff!

You need a fungicide, when you remove them put a wet cloth over them - don't let the release dust incase it is spores so the wet cloth should contain that - throw the whole thing away without opening the cloth.

Last year, I noticed what I thought was a piece of pasts shell stuck to the ceiling. I immediately assumed our DS had been up to mischief.

Imagine my shock when I saw it close up, it was a mushroom, which proceeded to grow and grow.

Google "Cellar cup" - and see it that matches what you see.

Turned out our roof valley was leaking, and water had tracked along the purloin into the wall, where the plaster had got saturated, thus allowing the mushroom to grow.

We had the valley fixed (actually a new roof, but that's because it was already 50 years old).

However, there can be an enormous amount of damp left in the wall, which will cause regrowth unless it's removed. We bought an eBac dehumidifier (about £200). Expensive, but it does pull an incredible amount of water out of the atmosphere. Quite handy if you have to dry clothes inside too.

Until you've removed the residual damp, you're at risk of more shrooms.

I had this crazy shit growing on my kitchen wall in my very damp basement flat. waynesword.palomar.edu/peziza.htm
The landlady lived in the flat above and it was her washing machine that was leaking but she wouldn't have it.

I can't get past the shitting on the toilet. I'm crying with laughter here!

Me too!

It's a typo, but it's still true though, isn't it?

A bf when I was in my teens found some growing in his car!