Real life in Würzburg: Part 2
This is the second part of my story about the life in Würzburg, Rottendorfer Str 49a (landlord of the building is Peter Mahler).
The first part was here.
As I told in the first part, in the end of July I flew formy holidays to Poland and then to Ukraine.
I came back to Germany on the Independence Day of Ukraine (24th of August) at midnight.
When I came back the windows of my flat were wide opened and the rain dropped simply on my bed and table.
Please notice the scaffolding beyond my windows: when the windows are open, everyone can go from the street to my flat without breakng the door.
It is not wonder, that under such conditions my USB-HDD has been stolen (with all clear consequences),
The whole room was in mold, rust, water and garbage:
I left the room clean.Look on the desk for meat.
On the previous photo there are some rusty stains, This is the colour of water which drops from the ceiling.
My technic and furniture was in some chemical substance, which looked as detergent.
The situation was as follows:
During 2 weeks after my departure there were several heavy rains. People with whom I spoke told me that in some flats the level of water on the floor of the flat was above 1 cm. I haven't seen this by myself, but look on my wardrobe:
Because of that the flat became molty.
So as to minimize the damages to the walls and ceiling landlord decided to enter my flat without telling me anything. Indeed, according to the contract the landlord has right to enter the flat in such circumstances, but he certainly has to lock the flat afterwards, which hasn't been done.
The workers have poured the walls and ceiling with certain substance (probably against mold) and painted the molted wallpaper white (although they had to tear it away and to dry the walls) . Moreover, during all this "repairment" the workers haven't taken my electrodevices in the safe place, My microwave and monitor as well as the furniture were in the state, which you've already seen. My bag was in the white stains.
Moreover, since the walls were moist, and the humidity in my flat was 100%, they opened the windows so as to dry the room (although there is a special device, which can do it). And they left my flat with opened windows and went away (it stayed opened for 8 days)! As you can see, before my windows the scaffolding is situated, and everyone could come into my flat without a need to break the windows and/or the door.
To make the flow of the air even faster (this could do only Germans), the workers switched on the ventilator in the bathroom, and since in Germany ventilator and light are always on at the same time, my flat was the whole day and night with the light on.
I should say that the problem was not only in the damages, which have been already made, but in the simple fact, that one couldn't live in this flat anymore. The mold was everywhere and the 100% humidity the smell in the room was like in the grave.
It was 2:00 am, and I was tired from the flight to Würzburg, thus I went asleep to the moist bed and covered myself with a moist coverlet. On the next day I made the photos of the whole stuff and it took more than a day to make the flat habitable.
I have written a letter to my landlord, where I described the whole thing and demanded the compensation, and told that otherwise I will go to police. However, he wasn't really impressed, and told me to make an exhibition of the damages, and then he will see whether he will give me a compensation and how much. And for now he sent me the bill according to which I should pay him 312 € extra costs for the heating and electricity (extra 30 € per month, although usually I even got back some costs from the landlords).
I called the lawyer.
To be continued.