Guest guest Posted November 18, 2003 Report Share Posted November 18, 2003 That is horrible. I would try, if I were you, to contact your local city or town hall and ask them to recommend a good remediation company or, failing that, a good mycologist who can then recommend a good remediation company. In addition, I would get as strong a dehumidifier in that basement or seal it totally up and get an electric heater instead of that probably forced air furnace that is just sending that toxic stuff, nice and warm, up to you. You have got to block the air coming up from the basement and use electric heat instead. Your landlord will not want to spend any money on this since he/she is not being made sick by this. Do these things (especially blocking off air) as soon as possible so as not to risk getting extremely ill and disabled. Oh, also, it might be a good idea to contact some city agency that supervises rented buildings and see if they could help with enforcing the correction of this health hazard condition. ----- Original Message ----- From: blswear@... Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 12:39 PM Subject: [] Dirt Floor Trouble I am a newbie to the list and have been reading all the information that it probides. I feel compelled to share my story...I rent a building that I have my business in. It is approx. 200' long and 40' wide and it has a dirt floor basement. This is an old building and the heating system is the old type floor furnace and the furnace is in the basement on a concrete slab. We have 1 furnace grate in the middle of the room that heats our shop. The smell that comes up from the basement is horrible. We have went down to the basement and there is NO ventilation and the floor is very damp almost like mud. There is different types of mold growing everywhere. There is a corner that is completely black and then around the furnace is almost like this gooey ball type substance on top of all the dirt. We have headaches, hacky cough, chest pain, etc...We have stressed our concerns to our landlord but all we've received from him is a notice of our rent going up. We are located in Kansas. Humidity is high and we have no central air to remove humidity. Any ideas, questions, comments would be greatly appreciated. We've contacted EPA, OSHA, KDHE and have just been told to call somewhere else. Thank you for your help. LoriFAIR USE NOTICE:This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 Lori; MOVE YOUR BUSINESS OUT! Do NOT try to dry out the basement, this will only aerosolize the spores. There is a powerful way you can send a message to your landlord that there is a problem, DON'T renew the lease. Don't keep giving him your money. If you own this business and know there is a problem you might be liable for the health of your employees and customers. Once YOU have determined that there is a problem and your landlord is not doing anything about it the ball is in YOUR court. Your decision affects your employees. Brad -----Original Message-----From: Stensrud [mailto:stenjess@...]Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [] Dirt Floor Trouble That is horrible. I would try, if I were you, to contact your local city or town hall and ask them to recommend a good remediation company or, failing that, a good mycologist who can then recommend a good remediation company. In addition, I would get as strong a dehumidifier in that basement or seal it totally up and get an electric heater instead of that probably forced air furnace that is just sending that toxic stuff, nice and warm, up to you. You have got to block the air coming up from the basement and use electric heat instead. Your landlord will not want to spend any money on this since he/she is not being made sick by this. Do these things (especially blocking off air) as soon as possible so as not to risk getting extremely ill and disabled. Oh, also, it might be a good idea to contact some city agency that supervises rented buildings and see if they could help with enforcing the correction of this health hazard condition. ----- Original Message ----- From: blswear@... Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 12:39 PM Subject: [] Dirt Floor Trouble I am a newbie to the list and have been reading all the information that it probides. I feel compelled to share my story...I rent a building that I have my business in. It is approx. 200' long and 40' wide and it has a dirt floor basement. This is an old building and the heating system is the old type floor furnace and the furnace is in the basement on a concrete slab. We have 1 furnace grate in the middle of the room that heats our shop. The smell that comes up from the basement is horrible. We have went down to the basement and there is NO ventilation and the floor is very damp almost like mud. There is different types of mold growing everywhere. There is a corner that is completely black and then around the furnace is almost like this gooey ball type substance on top of all the dirt. We have headaches, hacky cough, chest pain, etc...We have stressed our concerns to our landlord but all we've received from him is a notice of our rent going up. We are located in Kansas. Humidity is high and we have no central air to remove humidity. Any ideas, questions, comments would be greatly appreciated. We've contacted EPA, OSHA, KDHE and have just been told to call somewhere else. Thank you for your help. LoriFAIR USE NOTICE:This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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