Progress continues...It looks like we are making a bigger and bigger mess! The roofing guy didn't show up yesterday, second time that has happened, but the crawl space guy did. He told us we are doing everything we should be doing and basically any company we contract with would be doing the same thing...which is treat the mold with a cleanser, wash off, let dry, and put a fungicide on it. Steve got under the crawl space. He said it looks fine under there except for a pool of water right under the center of the house. We don't know where that is coming from-a leak somewhere possibly. We set about taking down more walls last night-got the most of the living room and the hall way done. Steve pulled up some of the top layer of subfloor in the office. Underneath it we found the original subflooring. It is planked, and in remarkably good shape for being 60 years old! We decided pulling all that up was ridiculous so we are going to pull the rest of the newer subfloor, clean the bottom layer, treat it with a fungicide and water sealant, then put another subfloor back on top of it. I like knowing some of the original features of the house are still in tact! Check is in so today is a shopping day. This weekend, my bedroom subfloors and sheetrock are going up! Yea....and I picked out flooring at least for part of the house! We also decided on insulation...it is a diy foam insulation. All of our major mold problems were areas insulated with traditional insulation. Every other area dried out with minimal damage. The foam will not mold and it will dry out if we have this problem again. My flooring is a vinyl by Karndean...I am going with a 7" wood plank (looks just like the real thing), a barnwood style by Van Gogh VG2-7 Hazelnut. It is glued down with a waterproof adhesive and the floor itself is highly durable AND waterproof! :). We are ordering the flooring and insulation this weekend...another step towards completion! You can see more about the foam insulation and the flooring at the websites below!http://www.foampower.com/index.html
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