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Are you positive that it is black mold? Or is it mold that is black? There
is a difference. It may just be surface mold and bleach water will take care of it. I would not be ripping out walls until you know for sure what you are dealing with. -- Sue (mom to three girls) "toypup" wrote in message ... We have a small bit of black mold on the baseboards near the entrance. It's about 2" x 2". My husband is afraid of spending money on it, thinks people blow this stuff out of proportion and wants to just use bleach and just paint over it. I say it might be a sign of a larger problem. I want it removed now and fix whatever it is that is letting moisture in, even if it means ripping out the wall. A little wall now is better than a lot of wall later. Besides, maybe there is a whole area behind that wall full of mold. I hear black mold spores are toxic. I'm sure he thinks that's all media hype. What do you think? |
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"Sue" wrote in message
... Are you positive that it is black mold? Or is it mold that is black? There is a difference. It may just be surface mold and bleach water will take care of it. I would not be ripping out walls until you know for sure what you are dealing with. I don't know. We need to call the mold specialists. It is a black colored mold that looks pretty ingrained in the wood. It would be great if we could take care of it with bleach. Thanks for the info. |
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"toypup" wrote in message ... "Sue" wrote in message ... Are you positive that it is black mold? Or is it mold that is black? There is a difference. It may just be surface mold and bleach water will take care of it. I would not be ripping out walls until you know for sure what you are dealing with. I don't know. We need to call the mold specialists. It is a black colored mold that looks pretty ingrained in the wood. It would be great if we could take care of it with bleach. Thanks for the info. There's a solution thing for cleaning that my aunt says the hospital uses that says right on the bottle that it's good for killing black mold. Off hand and for the life of me, I can't remember what it's called... My ex was taking out some old carpet from my basement and said he came across what he was sure was black mold after that carpet got all destroyed thanks to the leaking basement. I don't know if it was black mold or what, and I'm not even sure if HE was sure or not... I do know that both he and I were in the basement only and the kids did not step foot in the basement. Within a couple days he had called me and sounded horrible. He said he was sure that it was because of the mold in my basement - the very next day I came down with the same thing that he sounded like he had - very stuffy, sore nose, throat, coughing that hurt and was like a dry, raspy cough, etc. None of my kids had these issues that my ex had or I had - and the kids live full time with me and only see him on occasion, usually once a week, so they didn't "catch" anything from me (or him) I would maybe call and see if someone who knows their mold could help and offer up some advice. After how I felt from being in that basement, I can say it was definitely NOT fun to have a very sore throat and very sore nose! |
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