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So I'm telling my buddy about this basement I'm redoing
It stinks
I musta bid on this one in the winter when all the smells were froze
I was telling him if Satan himself had to work down there he would be like, "Hey Stalin, here's five bucks, head down to Wal*Mart and get a few AirWicks would ya, this place stinks!"
So he tells me (my buddy tells me, not Satan) to look out for toxic black mold
Now I'm no stranger to mold, but I have been hearing about this nasty stuff that is highly toxic and people can't get rid of
They closed a school around here because of it
Of course I find a blob of a black something on a rotting VCR stand, whip out the cell and describe it to him-it's black mold
He has me mix up a batch of bleach and water and spray the area with it
I then removed the piece (along with a bunch of other disgusting stuff)
I'm sure I've run into this stuff over the years, and just didn't know it was so toxic
He tells me it can effect your respiratory system etc...
This was a small piece of furniture and I was able to take care of it
I was wearing a mask anyway for the smell (it's a heavy-duty Darth Vader deal, even works for smells)
My questions are:
How toxic is this stuff really?
What is a good procedure when encountering it?
PS Once I removed the moldy and mousy stuff and got the 2 years broken dehumidfier working again, after about 2 weeks it no longer smelled like Satan's Underpants
The water problem was apparently fixed years ago, the mouse problem more recently, they just left everything down there
And D-Con says the mice will scamper away to die...that's a load
It stinks
I musta bid on this one in the winter when all the smells were froze
I was telling him if Satan himself had to work down there he would be like, "Hey Stalin, here's five bucks, head down to Wal*Mart and get a few AirWicks would ya, this place stinks!"
So he tells me (my buddy tells me, not Satan) to look out for toxic black mold
Now I'm no stranger to mold, but I have been hearing about this nasty stuff that is highly toxic and people can't get rid of
They closed a school around here because of it
Of course I find a blob of a black something on a rotting VCR stand, whip out the cell and describe it to him-it's black mold
He has me mix up a batch of bleach and water and spray the area with it
I then removed the piece (along with a bunch of other disgusting stuff)
I'm sure I've run into this stuff over the years, and just didn't know it was so toxic
He tells me it can effect your respiratory system etc...
This was a small piece of furniture and I was able to take care of it
I was wearing a mask anyway for the smell (it's a heavy-duty Darth Vader deal, even works for smells)
My questions are:
How toxic is this stuff really?
What is a good procedure when encountering it?
PS Once I removed the moldy and mousy stuff and got the 2 years broken dehumidfier working again, after about 2 weeks it no longer smelled like Satan's Underpants
The water problem was apparently fixed years ago, the mouse problem more recently, they just left everything down there
And D-Con says the mice will scamper away to die...that's a load