Mold

[Eden]

Hey everyone, its been awhile since I have posted here. Tracy and I(the moderators of this site) have recently come across a house with an amazing mold problem. The story we have been told is that the supply lines to the toilets broke and flooded the house, then summer came and the house got hot like a green house. And winter came again and the pipes foze again, and summer again. You get the picture. Needless to say the house needs some help. We've been talking with some mold abatement companies and whatnot. But we thought we'd toss this one up for anybody out there to take a hack at. You can check out pictures on our website, the link is www.mbqc.com/mold. Let us know what you think, if you've come across a home with a bigger mold problem(I don't want to imagine it!)
we'd love to see some pictures of it(and how you fixed it, if you did). We've kind of got a gallery of bad houses here at our office.

Eden

[Mac]

Wow! About the only way I could think of to fix that one is with 25 gal. of diesel and a flare.

[Charlotte]

I second the idea. Hope no one is TRYING to live there, gives me the creeps looking at it.

[Bill Fry]

I think I'd give it a mercy killing.Run a Cat D10 dozier over it a couple of times and send whats left off to the landfill.If theres that much mold on the outside of the walls I'd hate to see whats on the inside of em.The ceiing fan shot is hilarious.

[tahlborn]

With the amount of mold on the walls, ceiling, etc, all the drywall has to go, the floordecking looks shot, the insulation is probably loaded with mold everywhere.. spores imbedded in everything. My sinuses hurt just from looking at those pics.

Are you seriously going to attempt to remove the mold and rebuild this home??

Monumental task!

"sniffle.. cough.. hack.. gee doc, I don't know why my sinuses are always bothering me.. Mold? Um.. just a little .. my shower curtain might need cleaning.. (that's grotesque!).. Come to think of it, my house does have a "fresh as the dungeon" smell to it. I thought it was the new Glade Botanicals air freshener. I ran the ceiling fan until the drooping blades bonked me in the head too many times."

My skin is crawling from looking at those pics.

Tim

[Bill]

In some of the first pics I thought I was just looking at an incredibly UGLY wallboard pattern, then I realized it was the mold. I'm thinking that the real question here is not HOW to clean it, but is it WORTH cleaning it? If someone had to pay a specialty company to clean that, I'm guessing their bill would far exceed the value of the home. Too bad, from the pics it would appear it was a fairly nice home before the new residents moved in.
Reminds me of when my wife and I were first married, we stayed at her mom & dads single-wide when they were away. The shower supply was leaking, and there was a real mushroom growing up thru the carpet in front of the shower stall!

[rmurray]

Nice ceiling fan...GEEZ..

[Eden]

Ok, here's the situation...we don't want to "fix it." Not really anyway....we've been asked to give an estimate on "scrubbing down the walls, spraying with kilz, painting with a 'nice semigloss' paint" Voila! new house. We are more than a bit concerned about the possible liability issues. On the day that these pictures were taken some holes were knocked in the interior cross walls, no mold on the inside believe it or not. But we were not "allowed" to do the same on an insulated exterior wall.

Something is rotten in Denmark!

Eden

[tahlborn]

Liability issues.. heck, you'd never be able to NOT disclose that problem!

I suspect that even Kilz wouldn't do it.
Those spores will be in EVERYTHING. Embedded in wood, trim, the floor decking, behind batton strips, under cabinets, you name it.

Eeewww.

Tim

[Rita]

Ewww....Run, don't walk, to the nearest exit! I don't think you want to get your professional reputation involved in this one.