My husband and I live in a duplex home with our 8 year old son. We have had mold in the ceiling of our shower since we moved in 3 years ago. It has gotten worse and with a baby I am more cautious about things like that, that could affect his health (as our pediatrician said it could). We have asked her multiple times to come and look at it and get the response to just wipe it away. So we do.... well we try however, the mold does NOT wipe off! So after some persistants she decided to come look at our bathroom as well as our neighbors. Come to find out before we lived here our neighbor did and she was contacted about the mold in his home. She had contractors come in to fix it but when they took the sheetrock out they had waaaaay too much mold to deal with and said it was out of their hands needing a specialists and they backed out of the job. She then just had someone come in and put sheet rock back over it. So now knowing this I am VERY concerned as to how much mold is around all of the walls in the bathroom. ESPECIALLY because our 8 month old sons bedroom shares a wall with bathroom.
Her fix for the mold this time is to paint over it with mold killing paint. (mind you this mold is very aggressive and can STILL be seen through this paint). What can I do as a tenant in this situation? I mean I can pretty much assume that mold is EVERYWHERE and a specialist is what is needed to fix the problem and not just put a bandaid over it. However what if I am wrong? We also are unable to use our shower for a week with about an hours notice and we have to use our basement shower that is a gross unfinished basement FILLED with bugs with cement floors in the winter..... needless to say I am NOT happy and VERY concerned for my son!
I would appreciate any help and/or advice given!
Her fix for the mold this time is to paint over it with mold killing paint. (mind you this mold is very aggressive and can STILL be seen through this paint). What can I do as a tenant in this situation? I mean I can pretty much assume that mold is EVERYWHERE and a specialist is what is needed to fix the problem and not just put a bandaid over it. However what if I am wrong? We also are unable to use our shower for a week with about an hours notice and we have to use our basement shower that is a gross unfinished basement FILLED with bugs with cement floors in the winter..... needless to say I am NOT happy and VERY concerned for my son!
I would appreciate any help and/or advice given!