A landlord — three blocks under continuous monitoring
Continuous mould-risk evidence replacing six-weekly visual inspections. Awaab's Law audit trail by default.
Three blocks of social housing. Sensors in each property. A continuous record of temperature, humidity, and dew-point margin running in the background.
The traditional regime — a six-weekly visual inspection — was being replaced. Not because the inspectors were doing anything wrong. Because six weeks is a long time for a mould risk to develop, and the regulator is no longer satisfied with the snapshot.
What Awaab's Law actually asks for.
The legal obligation is to take action on damp and mould within strict time windows once a hazard is identified. The harder, quieter obligation is to be able to prove what the hazard window looked like — when it started, how it developed, whether the action closed it.
Continuous monitoring builds that audit trail as a by-product of the data. There isn't a manual logbook to fill in. The trail is the sensor record.
The shape of the evidence.
When a tenant complaint comes in, the landlord already has the conditions data for that property going back months. When a hazard is closed, the data shows it closing. When the regulator asks, the file is there.
Six-weekly inspections can keep running. The point is they're no longer the only piece of evidence in the file.
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