Hi, I moved into a flat recently with my friend and his girlfriend. It is a small flat below ground level and is therefore prone to a lot of damp, so much so it is destroying my friend's clothes. In order to prevent the damp we have to keep dehumidifers running pretty much 24/7, which is costing us a lot in electricity.

My question is: should we really have to burden the cost to prevent potentially dangerous mold from developing through damp at a cost to ourselves? Or should the landlord pay some of our eletricity bill so we can run the dehumidifiers?

Thanks