Angry. Mold. 2121 Responses

Last post: 2 months, 1 week ago | Thread started: Sep 25, 08, 6:08 a.m.

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• TheBlueOne

  Woke up this morning to find my bedroom wall soaked through with water, black splotchy mold behind my favorite and completely irreplaceable John Coltrane lithograph and over the wall and plaster falling on top of my laptop.

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/298…

  I'm about to go batshit on my corporate landlords. When we moved in there was pre-existing water damage they said they'd repair - all they did was paint over it. This sucks. I'm not going to live in a mold infested apartment...

  Sep 25, 08, 6:08 a.m. – Permalink

• Witt

  That happened overnight?

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 6:12 a.m. – Permalink

• MissB

  Something similar has happened to me. I was woken up a few nights ago with water dripping onto my bed. The flat above was leaking through the ceiling. The landlord had painted over several damp patches throughout the flat.

  • " dripping onto my bed" yeah blame it on the neighbors– CALLES

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 6:14 a.m. – Permalink

• moth

  Mold doesn't grow overnight does it?

  • It was growing behind my lithograph....so probably a week or so...– TheBlueOne

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 6:15 a.m. – Permalink

• TheBlueOne

  Well when we looked at the apartment in April there was small water damage on the ceiling they said would be fixed. When we moved in June they had patched and painted over it. In July they called us to say they needed to get into the apartment to fix a leak above. Turned out they could do all the plumbing repair work upstairs. So I had a small spot on the ceiling of water damage which they said to let the plaster dry out and they'd schedule the repair work - which was reasonable to me. They kept pushing it off, and now it looks like the leak got worse and now the mold....

  Have to pick up some bleach and some masks on the way home tonite...

  • Hey. Check this out: we got a guy over here who believes what his landlord says!– boobs

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 6:20 a.m. – Permalink

• Witt

  lol @ brazillian portuguese dictionary. Probably where the mold's coming from.

  • .P– Witt1/2

    HAHAHA!!!– TheBlueOne2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 6:20 a.m. – Permalink

• hallelujah

  that's FUCKED! I'm sorry

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 6:23 a.m. – Permalink

• Andrew_D

  Shape it into some sort of Jesus like figure and charge admission to your apartment. Don't let this opportunity go to waste!

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 7:17 a.m. – Permalink

• 7point34

  you didn't see the messengers did you? haha what am i saying... i'm the only one that saw that. turns out what they thought was mold was actually a ghost trapped in the wall.

  

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 7:23 a.m. – Permalink

• pascii

  bollocks! that's no good.

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 7:24 a.m. – Permalink

• 7point34

  seriously though, that is shitty. get that taken care of asap.call the county on the landlord if you have to. being around mold can have permanent affects on your health.

  • not in moldavia.– Witt

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 7:25 a.m. – Permalink

• tkmeister

  I'd ask for some financial compensation, like 2 month free rent. I mean, mold is a serious issue.

  • Yup. On it...– TheBlueOne

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 7:47 a.m. – Permalink

• MSL

  Check your insurance and see if its possible to claim on the print damage. You should be able to get some compensation from both insurance and landlord.

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 7:48 a.m. – Permalink

• TheFatBaron

  Check insurance, definitely.

  Also, bleach will not fix the mold. It'll kill what's on the surface, but you'll need to entirely replace the drywall. Possibly, remove any insulation behind it, and dry out/treat the studs behind the wall.

  If your landlord is not willing to do this, consider calling you local department of health or engineering. Mold like that is very bad news. In my case, I essentially had pneumonia for 3 months due to exposure to that crap in an apartment I lived in.

  • Yeah I know..just going to bleach it for now...– TheBlueOne1/2

    Good to know. Good luck.– TheFatBaron2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 7:52 a.m. – Permalink

• Anders

  It's the John Coltrane lithograph

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 8 a.m. – Permalink

• chossy

  You need to wash the wall with strong bleach reason being you may have what is called a live stain, where by it keeps coming back so scrub it down with strong bleach solution and it should not return.

  • As you can see from the pics though, there's more than just the mold....– TheBlueOne

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 8:04 a.m. – Permalink

• CALLES

  

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 8:06 a.m. – Permalink

• CALLES

  but look for something that can be similar to jesus in your wall and become rich... problem solved

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 8:07 a.m. – Permalink

• 7point34

  capoiera that shit!

  • hahaha!! Not sure that'll work...– TheBlueOne

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 8:08 a.m. – Permalink

• CALLES

  did you karate chop the walls... or the landlords yet?

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 8:09 a.m. – Permalink

• cashface

  thats fucked up!

  

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  Dog-earSep 25, 08, 8:17 a.m. – Permalink