More about mold
Dec. 11th, 2009 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theatokosI'm starting to get freaked out. Now that I'm pulling things away from the walls and looking down at the trim, I see it everywhere. The spots in the corners are worse than I realized. The mold along the trim is hard to see, but it's clearly in the early stages. I'm completely grossed out. I don't want anything to touch the walls or the floor. I made the mistake of looking up black mold on the internet. There isn't a lot of good information out there (other than how to treat your house for it, which isn't what I'm interested in) and there are a lot of alarmist sites - including a documentary trailer on youtube. I'm nervous we're going to be sick for a long time.
Today our plan is this: at 11 the landlords' cleaning lady is coming over. I will not let her touch the mold unless she brings sheets/tarps/etc to cover our belongings. She also needs to take the curtains away to wash. I don't want to stir up the spores and spread it further - mainly into our things anymore than it probably is. After that, we are walking around the entire town looking for 'to let' signs, and just generally getting out into the sunshine and fresh air on this beautiful clear day. We're seeing a house at 6.30 this evening.
I do have some pictures of the mold, but I'm too afraid to post them. I don't want people freaking out - I'm freaked out enough as it is. Until we have another place to live, we can't leave. We can't afford to move into a hotel. We do know the manager of one of the hotels. Do you think he'd let us move in for free? I may ask. Am I being alarmist?
Today our plan is this: at 11 the landlords' cleaning lady is coming over. I will not let her touch the mold unless she brings sheets/tarps/etc to cover our belongings. She also needs to take the curtains away to wash. I don't want to stir up the spores and spread it further - mainly into our things anymore than it probably is. After that, we are walking around the entire town looking for 'to let' signs, and just generally getting out into the sunshine and fresh air on this beautiful clear day. We're seeing a house at 6.30 this evening.
I do have some pictures of the mold, but I'm too afraid to post them. I don't want people freaking out - I'm freaked out enough as it is. Until we have another place to live, we can't leave. We can't afford to move into a hotel. We do know the manager of one of the hotels. Do you think he'd let us move in for free? I may ask. Am I being alarmist?