Mold Update: Looking Worse Before Better

The month of May was the time for this sad-looking (but clean!) basement to get even worse before it got better. 

The Library walls look so empty in the photo below.

We moved out while 2 jackhammers attacked the basement floor to install drain tile and holes were drilled each chamber of every bottom wall block for drainage.

That was done just in time for heavy rains to test it out. No wonder we had a hidden mold problem!

Next came grinding glue off the walls and floors, installing Kevlar pillars to reinforce cracked and bowing walls, pouring new cement, spraying radon-seal on walls and floors, covering walls with waterproof dimple-board, capping tops of block walls... and now lots of drying and airing out since the crew finished Friday morning.

Though the house is still too full of toxic cement dust and strong fragrance from the dimple-board for us to live in it, we are thankful to have soft water and hot water again after more than 2 weeks without. Many thanks to our aunt and uncle who let us take over their showers several times while we've been camping in our back yard and sealed-off "bakery" addition. (Click Here for Elsa's old blog from bakery-days.)

Is it worth all this upheaval, expense, and mess, you may wonder? We no longer wonder!

There are enough signs of improvement in all three of us mold-sensitive family members since the remediation in February, that we are thankful. There is a long way to go, but we see more hope in our physical symptoms than for a long time.

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow!

And thank you for continued prayers as we deal with set-backs and symptoms from all the clean-up still needed.

See previous Mold Update: A Hidden Leak