What colour for walls which get marks, mould etc

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My home gets winter mould. Doors get dirty. I am tired I'd weekly wiping the whole place down. Which paint looks well without often wiping ?

You need the mold and reason it’s getting dirty sorted out first.

We have done everything. It's a mortgage within leaseholders ha . They don't do a thing. We stopped 90% of it through 3 dehumidifiers. The rest of mould grows on furniture, walks, doors, fabrics, clothes

I need wiping weekly everything. It's just dusting of mould which appears, not a massive stain

You can’t live somewhere with mould getting on furniture and clothes. Painting over it will only make the problem worse
its really bad for your health and although you have ‘tried everything’ you do really need to solve the problem at its core before painting over

this is not normal and would involve moisture seeping through somewhere, roof windows poor drainage.
it's not normal to need 3 dehumidifiers to keep a home free of mold.
paint isn't the answer.

What dehumidifiers, and are you heating too? We have a side wall that needs re pointing and it's caused some damp. This has disappeared with oil radiators set to a consistent low level, and a good dehumidifier in each room (2 rooms share the wall). Waiting for the management company (we own but not freehold as top floor flat) to get on with re pointing. I grew up in a mouldy damp home and my allergies are ridiculous, I won't have that for my kids. It's not normal for clothes to be mouldy - walls and the furniture if pushed up too close to them is one thing, but ive never had mouldy clothes.

We are on top floor flat under the attic. It is the most horrible HA which owns thousands properties and care for none. It is something on one of the external walls....They turned up few times and stopped coming or bothering with it. Clothes in unbuilt cupboards get mouldy, left on open places like chairs do keep well.

I am even on asthmatic medication but been very well health wise. Our child overcame childhood illnesses and seems ok so far. All I can do is trying to move. Nothing more here to be done. Legally the HA won't allow me rebuilding or insulating

Make a complaint and escalate as necessary. Awab's law comes into effect on 27/10. Your HA can't keep fobbing you off.

https://england.shelter.org.uk/professional_resources/news_and_updates/how_awaabs_law_changes_the_rules_on_hazards_in_social_housing

We own the flat

They have 100 000 flats , homes like this one. I am not sure we will succeed. We might just try to move but in between I need an advice on a nice paint

If you have mould growing on soft furnishings, etc paint isn't going to do a thing. There's a source that's causing an incredibly high level of humidity in your home that needs to be found and sorted out. What you are describing is what people in tropical locations deal with - it's not remotely normal in the UK.

The other solution to mould is (often) heat - how warm is your flat? It sounds as though you've got something else going on as well, but I observe that friends who struggle with mould are also frugal with their heating.

It doesn’t matter if you own the flat. Your decription points to the problem being on the externals/communals, which is the HA’s responsibility.

If you’ve been reporting for a while and they’ve not fixed it, it sounds like disrepair to me.

You’ve options, don’t paint over the problem.

You could try adding a mould treatment into your paint to see if it would stop the growth but it really sounds like it should be seen to.

What is the venting like in your kitchen and bathroom? Maybe you are not getting rid of damp air as fast or well as you need to.

I had mould in a cupboard that was beside an outside wall: we had to take all the “soft” content out (teddies, clothes etc) and then leave the cupboard open for several weeks with the heating on low in that room so the wall dried, then we repainted. We removed the door from the cupboard and made it a shelf alcove; we kept the window open a crack and made sure the bed was not pushed up against the wall.

we have all these things and reduced the mould by 90%
Now it appears more actively in winter also and the walls start behaving like crying from the ceiling - it is a form of condensation from lacking insulation
I use these cupboards now - all 4 of them for old sturdy rubbish which does not matter gets mouldy or not - only 1 gets severely mouldy and I might make it into an alcove, sounds good idea

We heat very very generously, keep the humidity 50 to 60 percent with 3 dehumidifiers and also ventilate regularly. Something is leaking somewhere because we deal with leaks all the time. We are financially ok doing it but I cannot take on a building project now because the HA simply does not turn up anymore

Something is wrong with that external wall. I have been in other flats around, some have similar issues in winter, the ones under attics, some on the ground floor seem ok