Thankfully, we don't have that one really bad kind. Whew. But we do have too much of the not-good mold in our GA home.
We still own our house in Georgia - since we bought AT THE PEAK of the market in 2007. You know -- like 5 months before the government offered that 'first time home owners $8,000 credit'. Yeah, talk about bad timing!
Anyways, we rent out our home to awesome tenants. They have had health issues since they've moved in. Their doc asked about ducts being cleaned in their new home. We don't know when that was done last so we cleaned them...
And then they found mold...
And tested...
And it came back bad. Ruh-roh.
We found this out at 8pm on a Thurs. night. By 7am the next morning we were on the road to Georgia. Can you believe how awesome our friends and family are - to help us out SO much and take care of our kids while we do this? I mean, I kinda can't believe that was pulled off so fast. Especially since we have NO family in Pittsburgh. Amazing!
We found the source of the problem - moisture. We found the cause and that was a pretty easy fix, thankfully! Its just the redmediation that is rough. Rough on our pocket and also rough work!
Saturday I spent probably 6 hours crawling around in our attic removing the insulation. Tom spent at least 4 removing every single vent and return, scrubbing them and inside of them. Pancho and Carlos also showed up (Pancho worked for Tom years ago) - and we could not have done that work without them. We worked for 12.5 hours on the house - it was a LONG day.
And the LAST thing we did was pull up the plastic from the carpet... and we also put it on the hardwood. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT PULLED UP THE FINISH OFF THE HARDWOOD! Ugh. That was at 8pm. Talk about difficult to swallow!
I worked so hard that day I didn't take pictures. I took one of Tom while loading the car at Home Depot at 8am.
I will say blowing the insulation into the attic was pretty cool - and much faster than I ever would have thought. Sorry I don't have any pics of that!
We went to bed at midnight Sat. night and woke up at 4 to drive home to get the kiddos the next morning. If you know me, you know I need my sleep! I worked so hard my entire body ached the next day. A feeling I haven't had in a while -- and surprisingly I do miss it!
Whew! At least we got dinner at Los Hermanos. Best. Mexican. Ever!
Side note -- BOTH of my credit cards got denied while in GA. I tried spending $350 at Home Depot at 8am on a Saturday, I guess it triggered their alerts (although we used it all along the drive down).
I'm going to get back to blogging. We dug some ditches, by hand, at our house in PA two weekends ago. I gotta share with you what we are learning about basement waterproofing!
Get some rest tonight!
In my strongest homeowner spirit,
Heather
