Moldy Frustration
Saturday, December 27th, 2008One of the icky parts of living here has been the mold. The mold on the walls. In our bedrooms. The first year there didn’t seem to be any, but every year that we’ve been here it has gotten worse. This year, it is completely disgusting and ridiculous, and I’m getting really fed up with it. There are commercials on AFN now on controlling mold, and I’m thinking - should this even be a problem? Do normal people have mold in their homes? Like wall-covering mold from the floor to the ceiling? It’s on the same wall in both Anja’s and our rooms, the wall that faces the street that doesn’t get any sunlight, and in the winter it’s so much worse than in the summer. We have one dehumidifier - they wouldn’t give us two (they have given other people 2, just not us?) and it hasn’t done anything to limit the mold on the northwest-facing wall of the house.
Despite the commercials telling us to use soap and water, which basically does nothing, we’ve been using bleach because I’d read that it is effective in killing mold, but today I read that borax works even better and is less harmful. I cleaned what I could in Anja’s room and as I went to my room to clean more, I got really quite upset about it. Should we even have mold like this in our house? I was also reading about health problems caused by mold and am starting to suspect that this is why I have horrible nasal congestion and subsequent headaches at home but never when I sleep elsewhere.
So I’m asking: what’s normal? We’ve (ahem, B has) gone through this clean-up process at least 3 times in the last 2 years, and it’s only getting worse faster.
