How bad is this black damp mould?

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I rent a home off a private landlord but he’s a nightmare with repairs.
Recently noticed some black mouldy damp spot in my bedroom. Pic attached.
He’s got a very laidback attitude to it and just says to wipe it off 🤔🙄
A couple of people have said this is hazardous and I should contact someone ASAP like environmental health.

Any tips?! I wish I was in a financial position to move. I have three children under the age of 11

It looks like it is in an alcove. hat is it?

please stand back and take some much wider pics. Show the whole wall, from ceiling to floor.

Is it an external wall? Is there a window? What is on the other side of the wall?

It looks like condensation but it is worse than usual.

Do you every dry wet clothes in the room?

How close is it to the bathroom?

When do you open the window?

btw you can use a bleach-based cleaning spray to kill it. Once it is dead (and preferably dry) you can sponge it off

but the entire world is full of mould spores, and they will grow wherever there is warmth and damp, so you must cure the damp.

You do need to remove it yourself - you can buy a mould remover spray. However landlord should investigate the underlying causes.

Is the right hand side an external wall?

I'd take further pics/video as evidence, then clean it! Black mould remover is great.

It depends if its from an external leak or condensation within your home causing it though- whether the LL is responsible. If you are drying wet clothes inside, not ventilating the house, then your are responsible. If its a roof leak then LL responsible.

Definitely need to keep on top of cleaning it. I feel like damp/mould is very common in UK houses. But if a massive problem everywhere, then yes, landlord to help. If just random patches, you should be able to clean and keep at bay.

We have it in our house. It’s in my son’s bedroom which is on the north side of the house.
I wipe it weekly with anti-mold spray and open the windows every day. It tends to get behind his bed as the air doesn’t move around much there. I try and move the bed out from the wall when he isn’t in the room.
I don’t think your landlord could do much. It never occurred to me to contact environmental health (but it is our house, not rented) but I suspect they couldn’t tell me anything that I am not already doing.
You do need to wipe it off regularly though.

It's got quite bad, that hasn't happened overnight. Had the space previously been covered? That would explain the damp and mould if there was no air circulating. I would spray it with dettol mould and mildew remover - it's expensive at £3.50 a bottle but absolutely does the job.

Where is it exactly?
I turned off the radiator in one of our attic rooms last Winter and closed the door. When I went in two months later there was a patch like this on the sill below the window. I cleaned it with bleach spray and put the radiator back on. It never re-appeared.

Hi. Don't want to alarm but neighbours of mine have just been through an almighty nightmare with black mould. It may be worse/different to your situation, but I'll go through the basics.
They discovered their daughter was among 25% of the population that has an extreme reaction to black mold and she was very ill. Got diagnosed with ME until they realised what it was. They had cleaned the mold off the walls which made everything worse. They moved out of their house for 6 wks and got a specialist company in that killed the stuff and fogged the whole house. They then had a vent put in that swapped the spore-filled air of the house for clean air. They now have to keep humidity under a certain level and will need to keep on top of it forever.
I would get advice on how to manage whatever level of problem you have.
Best wishes

Open the windows and don't let the house get too cold x

Spray mould killer on it and it will wipe off. Easy.

Thank you all for your replies and advice.

It is in an alcove which is next to the bedroom window, that part of the alcove is lower than the window if that makes sense. The window is to the right of it. We usually have a chest of drawers in front of the alcove but not so close that there’s no air x

Thought it was. That right hand wall looks damp to me. Is the window double or single glazed? Get lots of condensation?

You might need to rethink putting furniture in the alcove for now.

can you do the pics?