Re: Replacing carpeting -- how about OSB subfloor?

[Guest guest]

I'd be very careful about the glue! You may be fine but the glue smell

makes me really sick.

The contaminated downstairs HVAC was ripped out and replaced (at great

expense, now no credit left, and no money). Now I am slowly trying to replace

contaminated carpeting and fabric furnishings. The master bedroom carpeting

needs to be replaced with wood, which will probably be brazilian cherry

glued down, and then finished (i should find a low VOC wood finish).

The carpeting only had contamination from the blowing HVAC. The only

growth on the carpeting was on the edges of it where the holes were in the

floor

for the HVAC ducting. This house is over a well-ventilated crawl space -

stanchions with lattice panels in between. Everyone who goes under there to

work comments how dry it is under there.

The subfloor is OSB. Sleeping in that room makes me sick-muscle spasms

that don't go away (high MMP9, I suspect), stuffy nose, eventual sinus

trouble, fatigue. Right now, the only way I can get better is by NOT sleeping

in

there.

Do I consider putting down plywood subfloor and ripping out the OSB? After

all, when glueing down a wood floor, I am not really gonna have a second

shot at this!!

If this helps, I have " double mold gene " according to Shoemaker's work, so

detoxing mycotoxins and endotoxins probably is not my forte!!

[Guest guest]

If you decide to put down plywood, look over every piece. I tried to find

plywood without mold on it and couldn't. Maybe if you can find some freshly

made,that hasn't been sitting around, but I couldn't find any non moldy plywood.

This sounds like good advice:

http://www.askthebuilder.com/406_Underlayment_for_Floors.shtml

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> I'd be very careful about the glue! You may be fine but the glue smell

> makes me really sick.

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