Tuesday, January 17, 2006

As if they couldn't get worse

I thought we were finally going to start seeing some better times. How wrong was I?!?! Where should I start?

Well over the weekend We did our usual Sat. laundry which includes washing all the bedding in the house. We do this every Sat. So every Sat. we have to make all the beds in the house. We come home from my Grandma's 82 birthday around 8:30 and start to make the beds. Suddenly I here Summer scream from the youngest's room and she's yelling for me to come into the room. I go in there and there is MOLD behind our son's bed. It was NOT there last Sat. when we did the laundry and made his bed. If you were to pull his bad away from the wall there would be a perfect outline of his bed on the wall. So we went through the rest of the house to find a perfect outline of our bed on the wall, Summer's dresser on another wall, a chair in the living room, and along the base boards in the Master Bath. Lovely. Just what we needed. We've only made 2 payments on this house. So now I'm at home from work today so that I can try to bleach the walls. I'm just waiting for Summer to get home from dropping youngest off at the babysitters so she can help me with the cleanup.

A little history on the mold issues with our house. We had a huge mold problem when we first moved into the house 5 years ago. Back then we were renting from my parents. We had some people come and inspect the house. We were told that the mold was NOT inside the walls, but was just on the exterior of the paint. (We cut a few holes in the wall to check for mold inside the walls.) They said the carpet needed to be removed because it was infected also. We had to replace all the mattresses, through away stuffed animals that have been in the family since the early 1900's, rebuild the Master Bath, and install french drains in the front and rear of the house to keep water from getting underneath the house's crawl space. We lived in the house for 18 months with no carpet. Oh we also installed a new heater and new vents in the rooms and new duct work. So another winter went by after all the work was done. The mold never returned. So we installed new carpet. That was 3 years ago. For the last 3+ years we have been mold free. Until the huge storm that came through here over New Years weekend. We had over 5 inches of rain in a 24 hour period. It was more water than the drains we installed could handle.
So in a little over 2 weeks since the storm we now have a mold problem again. And Home Owners won't cover the issue either. We went through that when my parents owned the house. They went to the insurance company and they sent out the mold inspectors. Insurance said that it was not something covered under the policy. A month later the insurance company dropped my parents policy on the house because of the liability or something like that.

So that's how shitty things are going right now.

Will things ever get better around here?

God i sound like a whinny little bitch here.

2 comments:

WryGirl said...

No, mold is a problem, unlike a hangnail.

You're not whining.

Besides, what if you were? This would be the place for it, wouldn't it?

O272 said...

I found mold behind a bed once...it was not due to weather. Pretty gross! Don't worry, I won't say anymore.

Good luck getting rid of it, CH!