How We Spent My Summer Vacation....
Our family room (the moldy part screened off with plastic):
Our carport containing all our family room furniture:
Not exactly as what we had planned for our time and our resources. But you have to do what you have to do! Right now I'm procrastinating going down into the moldy family room to bleach the darn stuff away. We've already pulled away part of the carpet. Then we'll have to tear apart part of the wall to make sure there's no mold growing in there, then repair, rebuild, and re-install flooring. While the room is torn apart we may decide to replace the less than energy-efficient doors, and some of the lighting. $$$$ Unfortunately since the water seepage was from an outdoor source (the 4 or 5 inches of rain we had a couple of weeks ago and not discovered until this past Friday), insurance won't cover a thing. (If it had been a broken water heater, we'd be all set.)
posted by Pam @ 10:33 AM
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Between Dad's back & this it hasn't sounded like the best summer so far. Let me know if you need any help. What kind of floor is under the carpet?
Yikes! What a mess! I hope you will be able to get it cleaned up soon with as little $ as possible!! We'll be praying for you and Dad!
Do you have masks and gloves? I am assuming you are trying to cut costs by not having a service do this part. I've seen more than one piece of water damage from heavy rain. The weather channel said that water does ten times more damage than fire and wind put together. I can come out and help you bleach or anything else.
I was well protected. There was not as much visible mold as I suspected once we got the carpet out and the moldy smell isn't there anymore--of course it's replaced by bleach smell. I was talking to someone the other day who had water come in her basement, and she knew of 3 other people who had water damage from that rain (none of which was covered by insurance). I guess there's a lot of us in the same boat (no pun intended).
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