This story starts the decline of my week before it started.
First off, my wife hollered to me last night, from upstairs, "Honey why would the carpet under (our daughter's) window be damp and smell "musty"?
So, I went upstairs and felt the carpet...didn't feel wet, but definitely smelled wrong right under the window. SO, I stuck my moisture meter on the baseboard and it read 16-18 in each spot below the window. I checked other spots in the house, and below other windows read around 8. So I knew that the window might be leaking, but it doesn't show on the drywall. I decided I would just watch it the next time it rains hard.
So THEN........I know it is completely unrelated because the rooms are on opposite sides of he house......but anyway. I was in the master bath today and noticed some black spots on the wall above the side splash on my wife's counter-top........and once I opened the doors to the cabinet I realized that the ENTIRE cabinet if full of black mold. Apparently my wife had put a make-up bag in the back of the cabinet and at some point the faucet started leaking and once that bag got wet, the mold started growing.
My question is, what now? I have dealt with this in customer's homes before, but not my own. Not that I would treat them any different, but damn I want to make sure to do the right thing now.
Anybody dealt with this black mold before? It is growing off the walls of the cabinet and off of the sheetrock in the back of the cabinet like cotton. It is bad.
Thanks!!
First off, my wife hollered to me last night, from upstairs, "Honey why would the carpet under (our daughter's) window be damp and smell "musty"?
So, I went upstairs and felt the carpet...didn't feel wet, but definitely smelled wrong right under the window. SO, I stuck my moisture meter on the baseboard and it read 16-18 in each spot below the window. I checked other spots in the house, and below other windows read around 8. So I knew that the window might be leaking, but it doesn't show on the drywall. I decided I would just watch it the next time it rains hard.
So THEN........I know it is completely unrelated because the rooms are on opposite sides of he house......but anyway. I was in the master bath today and noticed some black spots on the wall above the side splash on my wife's counter-top........and once I opened the doors to the cabinet I realized that the ENTIRE cabinet if full of black mold. Apparently my wife had put a make-up bag in the back of the cabinet and at some point the faucet started leaking and once that bag got wet, the mold started growing.
My question is, what now? I have dealt with this in customer's homes before, but not my own. Not that I would treat them any different, but damn I want to make sure to do the right thing now.
Anybody dealt with this black mold before? It is growing off the walls of the cabinet and off of the sheetrock in the back of the cabinet like cotton. It is bad.
Thanks!!