Video: Tenants Claim Apartment Mold Is Making Them Sick

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Tenants Claim Apartment Mold Is Making Them Sick

POSTED: 7:35 am PDT May 22, 2007

UPDATED: 10:53 am PDT May 22, 2007

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Two Milwaukie families said their landlord is ignoring a mold

problem in their apartment complex that is making their children

sick.

The families said they've reported the problem to their landlord at

the Holly Acres Apartments several times, but nothing has been done.

and Thayer's bathroom ceiling leaks water from the

apartment upstairs, but it's the mold that keeps coming back that

has them concerned.

The Thayers said they've treated the mold in their bathroom and

their son's room with bleach multiple times, and it continues to

come back.

" He keeps coughing and he can't sleep at night because it keeps him

awake, " said Thayer.

" When this stuff really grows, I sneeze 50 times in the morning

before I can stop, " said tenant Lampley.

Lampley said he's replaced the drywall in his bathroom himself three

times, but claimed that the blacks spots will soon be back.

Lampley and the Thayers said they've reported the mold problem more

than a dozen times to the apartment manager.

Apartment manager Vicky Kinney said she never received written

maintenance requests from the Thayers or the Lampleys.

FOX 12 tried contacting the property management company that

operates the Holly Acres apartment complex but they never returned

reporters' calls.

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Strong bleach can cause respiratory problems because its caustic.

It sounds to me as if they have not eliminated the sources of moisture.

If people first eliminate the sources of moisture, then remove the porous

moldy materials (and that includes the sheetrock) and then scrub the

semiporous things like wood with soap, water and bleach, then rinse WELL,

that is the best.

All moldy sheetrock needs to be thrown out, not 'treated with bleach'.

Bleach can hurt people. The best thing is (wearing PPE) to throw out the

moldy sheetrock, then scrub the inside the wall cavities and physically

remove any more mold thats there with the scrubbing and soaking up the dirty

water, then rinse and then dry the wood off and then put up the new

sheetrock..

> The Thayers said they've treated the mold in their bathroom and

their son's room with bleach multiple times, and it continues to

come back.