Written by Bob McGuire on April 2nd, 2010
Mold Within the moist areas gets worse with time.
One thing I have noticed in a lot of our jobs is that customers are putting repairs off till it is too late. Most problems have some water water damage coupled with them. When there is water implicated, mold can’t be far behind.
I believe that it has a little to do with the current economy. People are a bit fearful to pay out any money to get everything fixed up when they can’t perceive where their next buck is coming from. Even people that are on a cast-iron income like SSI or SSD or Social Security plus business pension. Those people’s income should not change too much but yet they are concerned. Ordinary working people are as well scared stiff. So these projects also sit and decay and the MOLD takes over.
We just finished a fairly big job in a basement which there was a waterproofing problem and it went unfixed for the last few years. All the bottom molding was black, the wallboard was black up 2 feet off the floor and the carpet had a thousand mushrooms growing on it. I believe that this severe of damage is risky to the people living upstairs. I realise it was bad for our workers and we dressed them correspondingly.
The finished basement had to be torn out. Along with the carpet and molding and doors and drywall and the whole lot else. Next we finished the waterproofing. That consisted of a perimeter drain and a sump pump. That was a lot of work. It cost a lot also and created a harmful living condition for the homeowner. If it was fixed just after it begun we could have saved the remodeled basement part except for the carpet. That might have saved a quite a bit of dough.
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