Alek, Run to Home Depot

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Hi Alek,

 

If you can see ONE wall of black mold, around your bathtub, it means that ALL of

the walls around, and UNDER your bathtub, have black mold behind the tiles. For

a thorough remediation, the tub should be taken out of the bathroom, and turned

upside down, to examine the bottom for mold. Then, with the tub removed, start

ripping off ALL the tiles around the bathtub, and keep ripping off tiles in the

rest of the bathroom, both walls and floor, and ceiling, until there is no

visible mold. Then rip out the walls with the black mold. Then examine, for

visible mold, what was behind the walls, and repeat the above process.

 

Now for the bad news. Any remediator, while doing this process, will start

thinking that, if his bill, or estimate, for the job, is very high, (thorough

jobs cost money), then you will tell him to postpone the work, until you can get

other estimates, from remediators who will " low-ball the estimate, to get the

job.  So, the only way to make sure that a proper job is done, is to get

multiple estimates, FROM THE GUY COMING TOMORROW, based on different degrees of

mold infestation he might encounter.

 

Mold in a house, is like cancer in a body. The surgeon, or remediator, has to

keep cutting, until it's all gone. When the surgeon cuts, the patient has to be

asleep. When the remediator cuts, you have to be awake, AND WATCHING HIM DO THE

JOB, to make sure that he doesn't start thinking, that he has cut enough, and he

can COVER UP the rest of the remaining mold, since he will figure that " a little

bit of mold, covered so you can't see it, will never harm you " . 

 

So, Alek, run to Home Depot, or Lowes, and buy the most expensive filter mask

that they have for sale, for YOU to wear, during the remediation process. The

kind that auto/house paint sprayers wear, would be ideal. If they don't have

that type of mask, get some " NIOSH approved N95 " masks. The 3M brand comes in a

box of 20, for a reasonable price. Their stock number is " 8612F " . Throw out each

mask after ONE USE, or the mask, itself, can make you sick.

 

The remediator WILL NOT, have an extra mask available, for you to wear. And if

he did, he wouldn't tell you, after you tell him that you will be looking over

his shoulder all day. While at Home Depot, pick up a flashlight, and large

magnifying glass, if you don't already have them. You need to really inspect the

bathroom, AFTER the remediation, before you start putting things back together.

 

Also, don't let the remediator, put any of the removed moldy stuff into any

other room of your home, or you will cross-contaminate those rooms also.

Everything ripped out should go immediately out a window, or out your door, to

the outside. Do NOT carry out the moldy stuff yourself. Doing so, will make you

sick, even wearing a mask.

 

Last, but not least, sleep in a HOTEL ROOM every night, until 2 days after the

remediation is completed. Until then, there will still be enough mold and

mycotoxins floating in the air, to make you sick. When you get back to your

home, first throw out all carpeting and rugs in the house, as they will now

contain a lethal amount of mold and mycotoxins, which, from the remediation, can

never be vacuumed enough to be safe. Then AFTER the carpeting is thrown out, wet

mop the entire house. Then, sometime after you have regained your strength, wet

wipe all the walls in the home, making sure that the air conditioning is on,

during all wet mopping and wet wiping, to avoid starting a mold growth on your

walls and floor.

 

So what are you doing still reading this email. Get to Home Depot, before they

close.

 

Joe

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Posted by: " Alek Rogachova " alekrog@...   alekrog

Mon Sep 7, 2009 5:15 pm (PDT)

Hi,

I'm sorry- don't mean to stray from this topic, but I have a question regarding

this post.