<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A south-west </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/sydney" rel="" target="" title="Sydney"><span>Sydney</span></a><span> family have been forced to abandon their dream home following a three-year battle with toxic mould that left their kids </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/hospitals" rel="" target="" title="hospitalised"><span>hospitalised</span></a><span> and their insurance claim up in the air.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Karagiannis' </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/property" rel="" target="" title="property"><span>property</span></a><span> in Roselands was once their dream </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/home-" rel="" target="" title="home"><span>home</span></a><span>, however, it was fenced off three years ago after a freak storm, during Sydney's wettest year, left the house plagued with mould.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The home's owner, Panagiota Karagiannis, said that she is over the complications the house has brought.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/woman-charged-over-alleged-15kg-methamphetamine-importation-attempt-into-sydney-airport/131d9b89-6b97-46b7-896e-bc759fcff8c6" rel="" target="" title="Sydney woman, 40, allegedly tried to smuggle $13m of meth labelled as tea into airport"><strong><span>Sydney woman, 40, allegedly tried to smuggle $13m of meth labelled as tea into airport</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Both our children started having breathing issues, asthma, but they were not ever born with asthma," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Athena was in and out of the paediatric wards.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"My husband is immunocompromised. He started suffering severe chest infections."</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-familys-dream-home-turns-to-nightmare-after-mould-infestation/967b7752-fdf9-4918-a9df-3e76041c5874" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The family made an </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/insurance" rel="" target="" title="insurance"><span>insurance</span></a><span> claim in September 2022 that was initially denied before the family pushed back and received partial acceptance.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There were experts that came out to the property who confirmed there's an abnormal mould ecology found in the home," Panagiota said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The family said it took two years until they were eventually moved into alternative accommodation.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>They noticed an immediate improvement in their daughter's health, however, more stress came along.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We were moved 13 times in 7 months."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The house was eventually stripped by the insurance company, but when the family moved back in, they say they started getting sick again.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/gold-coast-news-holidaymakers-still-locked-out-of-broadwater-tourist-park-after-crane-snaps/e9c4adc8-9ef3-4ee2-839d-f9786278ce29" target="" title="Collapsing crane leaves 91 holidaymakers locked out of caravan park for almost a week"><strong><span>Collapsing crane leaves 91 holidaymakers locked out of caravan park for almost a week</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>They then hired their own mould consultant.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We are deeply sympathetic, we are committed to supporting them to resolve what has been a highly complex claim," Hollard Insurance said in a statement.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The company is now working with the family on a knock-down rebuild.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"If it had been done in a timely manner, I think the frame of the house could have been saved, and I think my husband's health could have been saved," Panagiota said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I want there to be reform in the industry, I want there to be better knowledge in the industry.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I want something good to come from what we've been through."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><em><strong><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></strong></em></a><em><strong><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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