Re: new member looking for suggestions /

[Guest guest]

, please have young man pulling up carpet

where a NOISH 95 or NOISH 100 mask so this young

man doesn't get sick for doing this work for you,

even if you don't suspect any more mold.

--- Rob or Sunseri <RobRose@...>

wrote:

> A highschool student in our neighborhood had

> been helping us remove our carpet. He's been

> doing one room at a time at his pace. We were

> not home when he tackled the room opposite the

> garage. He removed the carpet and found about

> 3 feet of moldy carpet tacking. The tacking is

> about 1 inch wide, so picture a moldy yard

> stick (not a large amount of mold). He

> removed that, thought nothing of it and washed

> down the concrete with bleach water. He then

> sanded down the carpet glue to the concrete (I

> don't know why he did this, I think he just

> wanted to use our power sander!). The smell in

> that room is so bad now I have it closed off.

> It is really dusty from the sanding & it's not

> improving. I don't smell mold, I think I just

> smell sanded down carpet glue. It burns my

> nose when I walk in the room, so I don't. I

> really don't have any evidence that there is

> mold between the wall, but I worry that there

> is. I have a horrible air quality problem in

> that room due to the

> sanding & I am not sure how to remedy that in

> itself.

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