Angry. Mold.
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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...
- ********0
That happened overnight?
- ********0
Mold doesn't grow overnight does it?
- It was growing behind my lithograph....so probably a week or so...TheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne0
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
- ********0
lol @ brazillian portuguese dictionary. Probably where the mold's coming from.
- hallelujah0
that's FUCKED! I'm sorry
- Andrew_D0
Shape it into some sort of Jesus like figure and charge admission to your apartment. Don't let this opportunity go to waste!
- 7point340
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.
- pascii0
bollocks! that's no good.
- 7point340
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.
- tkmeister0
I'd ask for some financial compensation, like 2 month free rent. I mean, mold is a serious issue.
- MSL0
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.
- TheFatBaron0
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...TheBlueOne
- Good to know. Good luck.TheFatBaron
- Anders0
It's the John Coltrane lithograph
- chossy0
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
- CALLES0
but look for something that can be similar to jesus in your wall and become rich... problem solved
- 7point340
capoiera that shit!
- CALLES0
did you karate chop the walls... or the landlords yet?
- cashface0
thats fucked up!
