Getting ready to sell my house, its very old and I’ve been living in it the entire time, the basement gets a little damp if there is a heavy rain but only in a corner and it doesn’t puddle. This stuff looks like maybe plaster or some kind of insulation.
Worried if it could be mold, having a very hard time finding a place to post and get help with this.
That's house herpes
Last pic.
Looks like old paint
touching and breathing that shit will give you cancer and aids
You can either spend 15k and 2 months to fix it properly or give it the landlord special and cover it with 10 coats of paint and make it the next guy's problem
Shit man so this crap is mold??
do NOT touch it, you'll spread the mold spores.
buy this and spray it all over it and do NOT scrub/wash it. let it dry.
definitely mold
https://www.concrobium.com/products/mold-control-spray/
That shit is just TSP trisodium phosphate.
Initially it will probably prevent mold, but later it breaks down and acts like fertilizer. That’s the phosphates that were banned from laundry detergent because it caused algae blooms.
>cover it with 10 coats of paint and make it the next guy's problem
this is what I'd do personally. if you aren't living there who the frick cares. but use the mold/mildew kilz so you can at least feel like you made an attempt
it with 10 coats of paint and make it the next guy's problem
>this is what I'd do personally. if you aren't living there who the frick cares. but use the mold/mildew kilz so you can at least feel like you made an attempt
Hahaha. You fricking sleezy piece of fricking shit. Lets hope a semi truck hits your car from behind and gives you permanent spinal injury you fat frick.
I dont even know if its mold. Looks like it but its hard to tell unless i woudl be there inspecting. Maybe run a dehumidifier for your next house... dummy ?
>touching and breathing that shit will give you cancer and aids
>You can either spend 15k and 2 months to fix it properly or give it the landlord special and cover it with 10 coats of paint and make it the next guy's problem
You fricking disguisting piece of human shit. Fricking go have a nice day. Goddamn i hate you cheap fricking dogshit people.
That doesn’t look like mold to me.
It looks like green or copper anti-mold paint of some kind. Possibly even chrome.
If you spray it with bleach, if it’s mold, it will bleach it out. If paint or copper carbonate/napthanate, then it won’t change color.
Rent an industrial dehumidifier for a week, and buy a cheap digital air purifier, get a standing fan down there if you have one, and possibly a small heater. After a week of draining the moisture, paint the room, probably a few coats of cheap emulsion.
Wear a mask, mold spores can give you flu symptoms and worse, air purifier will help clear the spread and help the room feel fresh. If it smells, burn some incense, very cheap and pungent, or use air sprays like Frebreeze.
Avid mycologist here.
Touch the green stuff, does it stain green? If you touch/press it does it change texture/color?
Penicilium or Trichoderma most likely
As for the white stuff, I'm not sure, the pic doesn't seem very good.
Generally with mold of any sort you should be able to scratch it up very easily, using your fingers/a moist cloth. You could also try putting some hydrogen peroxide on it, and see if it fizzes (may need to repeat once or twice, as the non-mold stuff on the walls could also fizz a little).
As for removing it, I'm not really sure but as others suggested, dehumidifying the room is a good start. Also definitely wear a mask
avid moron
I was cleaning my garage yesterday and had a plywood box that my cnc router came in stacked next to the garage door. Snow must have melted and seeped under the door and under that box. It had some black stuff growing on it. I took it outside and blew all the black stuff off with my air compressor. Do i have gay chinese aids/mold disease now?
No. Mold spores are literally everywhere.
There is whole areas and townships where people are living that continually make them sick due to natural extra-toxic mold spores.
Some monasteries inoculate their beer by opening some windows in the spring with molds and their friends, yeasts.
Black mold is resistant to acids. So much so that they they use genetically modified black mold to produce citric acid.
the human body is actually a giant walking talking clump of mold
More like bacteria.
That’s how we keep our islets of langerhans in a little zoo inside our bodies.
Put up some plasterboard and sell.
Gum Spirits Turpentine kills mold good, take with sugar cubes.
People freak out about mold too much. Its not an infection, you don't touch it and it spreads to other places like magic. It requires specific conditions in order to survive, even in a damp dark warm basement mold only really grows in the corners. A house with mold problems has to have a leak in the walls where you see the dangerous amounts of black mold.
Touch it, green mold isn't going to kill you from touching it. If it stains your fingers and it's sort of chalky, it's most likely mold. Press your finger near the edge of where it is and smear it, thats mold. That white stuff in your other picture is the mycelium of mold that hasn't sporulated yet and changed color. If it smells really earthy and like mushrooms, not a good sign.
Fixing it is simple enough, first you get rid of it. I'd spray bleach on it, scrub it off with a nylon brush wherever it is so you can't see it. There's mold sealant sprays you can get to spray there afterwards because it seems like that's a good mold farm spot. To prevent it from growing again, remove the conditions in which it can grow. The top number 1 thing that it needs is humidity. If there's any leaking water or standing water or anything like that remove it. Run a dehumidifier or put a large amount of dessicant in your basement to dry it out. An air purifier to remove whatever is in the air and a fan to keep air movement going would also help. I really fricking hate mold and I live in a swamp.
>People freak out about mold too much.
Is it true that you can get mold growing in your lungs if you smoke weed that is moldy, or does the heat kill the mold. Asking for a fren.
If you're immunocompromized or eating immunosuppressants it can and has happened to people
You'll have to pull it apart
It might just be the blend they blew into your walls.
Insulation can be everything from white to dark brown, yellow, green, pink etc etc
If it's against exterior walls, I would make sure it's sealed up and not worry about it regardless
>, its very old and I’ve been living in it the entire time
so you're like 90 or what
>This stuff looks like maybe plaster or some kind of insulation.
plaster and insulation are very different anon. Take a closer look; touch it.
Piggybacking on this: consider if I had a very powerful UV lightsource in 200-300nm range. Could I leave it on near these kinds of surfaces and expect the growth to dissappear?
in your experience do things ever magically disappear? It's biological material, spores are impervious to just about anything you can do to them so you can't kill it, but you can deactivate it by drying it out. Once it's deactivated it works like dirt, except it's malignant dirt, that if moistened will create more of itself. If the light actually did kill it, somehow destroying the outer shells of the spores and damaging the genetic material enough to render it useless, then it would just be dirt that still needs to be cleaned up. Realistically though, the light isn't going to penetrate into the surface enough to kill the roots of an already-existing fungal infestation.
>in your experience do things ever magically disappear?
Just about never, and you're probably right, it's all over the between the tiles and probably lots more where I can't see it.
Also they seem to be making these weird triangle-looking blotches as seen on the right, anyone got an idea why?
the blotches are mycelium, that patch used up whatever food it found in the grout and sent out feelers looking for more food. That grout looks in pretty good shape, scrub it with 25% bleach water using a tough plastic bristle brush and it will die, might take a few applications.
I'll try that, thanks
That is a cool photo!
It can take *many* bleach applications before that stuff is killed. Like spraying down every day for a month or more. If you leave even a small amount alive in there it comes back very quickly as soon as the bleach “wears off”
I tried methylene blue once, and that worked pretty well too. Maybe it’s unbanned again.
Roll zinsser over it. Not your problem.
Wait for an extra dry day, wear a mask and power wash the shit out of it.
Black mold is a israeli scam to get people not to invest in older buildings. None of the follow up studies on mold have reinforced the hysteria of the 90s and 00s.
It can be pretty bad if you have any precondition that would make you weaker against it. Work buddy ended up in a hospital aftet the shrooms started growing in his lungs
That's plutonium ore. Get a hammer drill and pick axe then chop it out and sell it.
Advice I got once for similar problem (cement walls) from a paint department store guy:
Brush off best as possible
with bleach soap and water
>>>Dry thoroughly
. It was a lot of work but it worked.