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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Harriet Morphy-Morris

Liverpool students living in 'uncomfortable' flat covered in 'mould and damp'

A Liverpool student says her belongings have become "too mouldy to salvage" after a leak in her Wavertree university accommodation.

Rio Smith, 19, along with her four flatmates, mistakenly thought one bedroom had a "nice feature wall", but it turned out to be the cause of many problems. Following a leak, the five-bed student accommodation became riddled with "mould and damp everywhere".

Rio and her flatmates noticed damp on one bedroom wall shortly after moving into the flat in August 2022, but but it wasn't until her flatmate pointed out her "differently painted colour wall" that they realised there was an underlying issue. Rio said: " The mould is especially bad in my room and I was the first to notice when my flatmates thought I had a feature wall but it was actually just a damp wall that looked a different colour.

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