Mum Hospitalized Multiple Times Due to Dangerous Mould in Rented Home 🏚️

A mum says her 'horror' rented home has seen her repeatedly hospitalised - including falling through the floor and a ceiling collapsing on her head.<br /><br />Disabled mother-of-three Victoria Parkhill, 45, has been living in the sheltered housing after an accident left her with a broken neck.<br /><br />She says the home has rotten floors, flooding and severe mould -- and left her having to eat and sleep in the lounge.  <br /><br />Victoria has lived in the property in Watchet, Somerset, since October 2010 - after she moved in following an accident where she broke her neck.<br /><br />She hoped the new home would accommodate her accessibility needs - but she said "everything that could go wrong, did go wrong".<br /><br />A downstairs wet room which was built so Victoria could shower became mouldy and covered in rust, she says.<br /><br />When Victoria notified her housing association she said they sent workers to paint over it.  <br /><br />But the underlying problems went unresolved, resulting in the rotten wet room floor collapsing suddenly and Victoria suffered a violent fall into the floor.<br /><br />She split open her head and was taken to hospital - and later was in A&E again after <br />her ceiling crashed down onto her.<br /><br />Victoria said the incidents have left her with a damaged disc and ongoing issues with her back.<br /><br />Victoria said: "I have cried every day I feel like I have the weight of the world - my children are severely ill, terribly poorly.<br /><br />"It’s been awful as me and my son, 15, are so poorly coughing again he had a asthma attack last night and still no news. It has been hell."<br /><br />But the violent fall was just the beginning of Victoria's problems with the house. <br /><br />Her family's festive season was ruined when Victoria's 8-year-old daughter Isla woke her up shouting 'Mommy the house is flooded!'  <br /><br />A leaking upstairs tap had filled the ground floor with a foot of water overnight, blowing out the electricity, destroying appliances and wrecking the kitchen.<br /><br />Victoria said: "I will never forget waking up and seeing water pouring out of a tap that wasn't even turned on. It was horrific, my ankles were in water. <br /><br />"But it is now day 43 since this flood - and they still have not done a single thing.<br /><br />"The floors still have water underneath - it's absolutely devastating and the smell is just disgusting."<br /><br />She said Magna housing association, who own the property, failed to attend to the waterlogged ceiling for over a month, until it deteriorated so much the plaster blew and rained down on Victoria and her dog in early February. <br /><br />While a Magna surveyor agreed they would fix the ceiling, they provided no date, and did not make any attempt to fix it before it partially fell down, she says.<br /><br />The crumbling plaster ceiling left the family unable to eat in the dining room and retreating to the lounge for breakfast lunch and dinner.  <br /><br />She said Magna have refused to fix much of the damage, leaving Victoria and her family with waterlogged floors, warped doors, and a damp house.