Re: Dishwasher question-need one more expert piece of advice please

[Guest guest]

MUSTY IS the odor many people use to describe a mold odor. Those black dots are

most likely mold. If it's on the front, it's most likely on the other side of

the sheetrock. It smells, NOT because it's been behind the dw for 19 years, but

because there has been moisture there, and mold grew.

Consider using a 2 " hole drill bit for a rotary drill, and drill some holes a

few inches ABOVE the topmost black spot. Pull those plugs out and inspect the

back of those sheetrock circles.

At any rate, you should cut the rock above the visible spots, and if there's

mold on the plugs, above there, too.

Before you replace that rock with anything, pull out any insulation, clean the

area, and put in new insulation.

Also, do not put that dw back in. It seems it's been leaking. get a new one, or

do without until you can.

My opinion only.

Ella

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> > Thanks-I am doing something similar-I am going to pull out the dishwasher

today and if the guy will do me a favor I'm going to ask him to pull out the

panel behind the dishwasher. I am just going to pull out until the kitchen

doesn't make me react. I'm just afraid it's behind a corner group of cabinets

that will be impossible to get to.

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[Guest guest]

Yes, I've pretty much come to that conclusion too. I don;t think there is

insulation behind the sheetrock but I'm very sensitive to it so I will not be

replacing it if it's there. Also I am going to buy another dishwasher but won;t

until I fell absolutely perfect again in my kitchen. Who knows what else is

lurking-I'm taking one step at a time.

But thanks for the confirmation re the black dots-it does seem like some type of

mold. But can you tell me why I can't seem to bleach it off the formica? I would

think it cannot penetrate solid formica and yet the bleach is doing

nothing-weird.

Thanks again! Surella

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> MUSTY IS the odor many people use to describe a mold odor. Those black dots

are most likely mold. If it's on the front, it's most likely on the other side

of the sheetrock. It smells, NOT because it's been behind the dw for 19 years,

but because there has been moisture there, and mold grew.

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> Consider using a 2 " hole

[Guest guest]

Re: spots. Interestingly the Bible's reference what is believed to be to moldy

house, describes the house as a house with 'leprosy', so yes, spots can be mold

and I think are more often seen that way than those runners coming up from

floor. Peaks coming up from floor is from flooded floor but often mold is not

from flood.

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> Ok so I pulled the dishwasher out. I feel better already BUT behind the

machine is a piece of sheetrock with smudgy black dots. Now my experience with

mold is the creepy crawly kind that inches up from the bottom of the sheetrock.

[Guest guest]

Here's the story of the manufacturing of formica:

http://www.formica.com/publish/site/na/us/en/index/content/about_formica/manufac\

turing/manufacturing.html

Ella

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> > MUSTY IS the odor many people use to describe a mold odor. Those black dots

are most likely mold. If it's on the front, it's most likely on the other side

of the sheetrock. It smells, NOT because it's been behind the dw for 19 years,

but because there has been moisture there, and mold grew.

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> > Consider using a 2 " hole

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[Guest guest]

So Formica is just paper with resin-I'm doomed when they replace my cabinets.

Resin cannot possibly be non-toxic-I won;t be able to be in my kitchen till it

off gasses. Nightmare-I want to move!

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> Here's the story of the manufacturing of formica:

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http://www.formica.com/publish/site/na/us/en/index/content/about_formica/manufac\

turing/manufacturing.html

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> Ella

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