Always busy

[mbumby]

But recently been busy-to-the-nth-degree. Instead of just cleaning the house to prepare for our guest, I've been first cleaning it to prepare for workmen to tromp through it, giving them access to places I've not seen in years

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[cflute]

Bummer re finding black mold. I'm not clear what surface it's on but using KILZ may be worth investigating.

My rule when prepping for invasion by workmen, particularly contractors, is to visualize goons with sledgehammers... and to set things up to make it *difficult* for them to accidentally (read, carelessly) damage ANYTHING I care about.

Good luck, in any case!

[mbumby]

Thanks.

My biggest problem is having Too Much Stuff - (all of which I care about)- so the act of shoveling a path across my office took knee-and-waist-high stuff into chest-and-ceiling-high boxes of stuff, with a path through it.

The stuff-I'm-assuming-is-mold is in the carpet, on the molding, and on the drywall. Not a large area, a few square inches on the carpet, a bunch on the molding and then a foot or so along the edge between the carpet and the drywall.

I think I have some KILZ left over from my last painting project. (Good idea -- thanks.) This morning before I left for work I applied moderate amounts of straight bleach... and it might be power of suggestion, but the area on the carpet now looks more ... spotty.

ick

[wyld_dandelyon]

It's not fair for molding to attack moulding! (Especially if the moulding is made of pretty wood!)

And double-ick for mold near one's bed!!!

Re: ick

[mbumby]

I'd spelled it moulding the first time through, but that flunked the spell checker, and I know I don't have the greatest memory. Oh well.

It's not "pretty" wood -- it's just wood wood, painted white. But I still don't like to see it look like it's being eaten away.

Re: ick

[wyld_dandelyon]

The LJ spelling checker highlighting it prompted me to Google "moulding" to check that my memory was right.

I'll hope, for you, that eliminating the mold means better sleep.

Re: ick

[mbumby]

Thank you.