Flood and Mold Damage

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Wellll, I asked about advice on our home that we were purchasing.

wanted to paint, clean the ducts that show evidence of mold when

sampled, scrape acoustic sprayed ceiling. Turns out that a bigger

problem is now upon us!

This is really unbelieable. Our house closed escrow today around

8 am. Someone cameout and turned on the water valve. It was turned off

because the refrigerator line that was for the icemaker was leaking

when the previous owners moved out.

So, we had a huge FLOOD! There was 1-2 inches of water on the whole

ground floor. Flood restorers were called before we even knew

anything. They came out and drilled holes every 6 inches in the entire

downstairs. Took up carpet pad and they thought carpet was ok, but

SPRAYED it with a fungicide which I don't know what it was, but they

say smell goes away in 2 hours. My nose was running the whole time I

was there and I could TASTE a chemical. (Do you guys taste it when

you're exposed to a chemical?)

They took away baseboards in living room, and guess what-looks

like MOLD THERE! (it is the area right behind the refrigerator so

perhaps slow leak there already??) Plus maybe mold in another area of

baseboard where outside sprinkler hit?.) They are suggsting taking up

the Wall until the point that they don't find mold and go a little

beyond. This mold remediation would be a separate issue from the flood

remediation. So, evidently we would have to pay for mold problem.

Hopefully, we are not liable for the water damage. But they are

perhaps related? It is posible that the water was leaking for 1 or 2

days which would be long enough to develop mold. We originally thought

it couldn't have developed mold the sameday.

Anyway, how best to handle? They have fans going all over, they

drilled holes in all the walls, They have large humidifier going.

Anyone been thru this? I'm worried about chemicals of course. They

have to repair holes, replace baseboards, I want carpet replaced--They

think it will have to be replaced now too. Now the marble tile is

buckling and will have to replaced. But all these remedies are fraught

with peril as we know. I was also told by someone that they should

replace all the drywall up about 6 inches. Anyone know anything about

this?

ANY ADVICE will be welcome. I can't believe this happened. We

were to buy another house that turned out to have toxic MOLD. Now I

have this horror. I spent many hours trying to figure out paints, and

now there are glues solvents, fungicides, etc. in addition to the

previous painting, duct cleaning, and e