Hi, me again,
I asked a few weeks ago (yes, weeks!!!) about suggestions for flooring, and my landlord has approved bamboo flooring, and now I need help researching mold remediation. Otherwise, he will not take care of it properly. (Why don't I just move? Rent Control!)
To recap, there was a plumbing stoppage downline from me, and my upstairs neighbors apparently started the dishwasher and left for the evening. The water backed up into my sink, and onto the tile counter, and washed “downhill” towards the dining room, dripping down into the silverware drawer on the far end, down the inside and outside of the cabinetry (which is particle board inside with varnished wood facing), under the dining room carpet and granite kitchen floor tiles, and five feet along the baseboard of the dining room wall, and dripped through the structures below my kitchen so that it was raining down into the parking garage below. There is a patch of dining room wall near the baseboard and kitchen cabinets that got saturated. Maintenance workers snaked out the plumbing the day after it happened, and used a shop vac on the carpet, but when I put down baking soda to dry the carpet and it got saturated immediately, I realized there was still quite a bit of water under there.
The cabinets and carpet are now dry, but I’m afraid to just start pulling up the carpet and ripping open the wall (where it will be patched with new drywall) without a plan to minimize getting the mold spores into the air. And now my landlord is suddenly wanting to take immediate action on ripping out carpet and putting in flooring, and the flooring contractor doesn't normally deal with mold, so there's no plan.
I have found lots of great links (here are some), but I’m sort of overwhelmed (probably from breathing mold for almost a month now), and can’t seem to formulate a strategy.
www.moldacrossamerica.org/
www.moldinspector.com/mold_removal.htm
www.alliance-enviro.com/therma...at.html
Ideally, I would like a professional remediation service to come in and clean all this up, without using toxic chemicals, but I don't think my landlord would pay for that. I suppose I should at least get an estimate and see what it would cost.
My second choice would be to have a professional design a detailed carpet-removal and mold-cleanup strategy, including recommended products and procedures, which my landlord could then implement using his poorly paid maintenance workers.
So, if anyone local to West LA / Santa Monica has had a good experience with a mold remediation professional, could you please get me their contact info?
Thanks!!!
Infinite Blessings,
Andrea
I asked a few weeks ago (yes, weeks!!!) about suggestions for flooring, and my landlord has approved bamboo flooring, and now I need help researching mold remediation. Otherwise, he will not take care of it properly. (Why don't I just move? Rent Control!)
To recap, there was a plumbing stoppage downline from me, and my upstairs neighbors apparently started the dishwasher and left for the evening. The water backed up into my sink, and onto the tile counter, and washed “downhill” towards the dining room, dripping down into the silverware drawer on the far end, down the inside and outside of the cabinetry (which is particle board inside with varnished wood facing), under the dining room carpet and granite kitchen floor tiles, and five feet along the baseboard of the dining room wall, and dripped through the structures below my kitchen so that it was raining down into the parking garage below. There is a patch of dining room wall near the baseboard and kitchen cabinets that got saturated. Maintenance workers snaked out the plumbing the day after it happened, and used a shop vac on the carpet, but when I put down baking soda to dry the carpet and it got saturated immediately, I realized there was still quite a bit of water under there.
The cabinets and carpet are now dry, but I’m afraid to just start pulling up the carpet and ripping open the wall (where it will be patched with new drywall) without a plan to minimize getting the mold spores into the air. And now my landlord is suddenly wanting to take immediate action on ripping out carpet and putting in flooring, and the flooring contractor doesn't normally deal with mold, so there's no plan.
I have found lots of great links (here are some), but I’m sort of overwhelmed (probably from breathing mold for almost a month now), and can’t seem to formulate a strategy.
www.moldacrossamerica.org/
www.moldinspector.com/mold_removal.htm
www.alliance-enviro.com/therma...at.html
Ideally, I would like a professional remediation service to come in and clean all this up, without using toxic chemicals, but I don't think my landlord would pay for that. I suppose I should at least get an estimate and see what it would cost.
My second choice would be to have a professional design a detailed carpet-removal and mold-cleanup strategy, including recommended products and procedures, which my landlord could then implement using his poorly paid maintenance workers.
So, if anyone local to West LA / Santa Monica has had a good experience with a mold remediation professional, could you please get me their contact info?
Thanks!!!
Infinite Blessings,
Andrea
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