Last night I went to look at a house with my brother and dad that got condemed from mold. Its about 2600 SQFT on a 1/2 acre lot. Its got 4 bedrooms but I'm going to convert it to 3 with a huge master bedroom. Hopefully I can get the houe for around 50 grand or so, do all the work myself and drop another 40 to 50 grand into and then 3 or 4 years down the road sell it for 250. Brand new the house went for 230 7 years ago and that area is being built up so fast that its going to appreciate really quick. Just two blocks away new homes are going for 400 on the low end and 700 on the high end and you know how that works, the big house's bring the little houses value's up.


But here's the best part of all guys, The garage in this house is HUGE!!!! its 2.5 cars wide and 2.5 cars deep with 15 foot ceilings!!!!!!

I can fit four L's in this garage and work on all of them at once!!!

what do you guys think!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited!!!!

 

I'm coming to your place to work on my truck cause working in the driveway here sucks ...

 

condemmed for mold? yuck.

Better buy stock in Clorox.

 

The mold thing sucks!!! But that damn garage would put a big "SOLD" image in my head!!! Hope ya get it!! Just get all the mold crap outa there!!

 

down here, some houses, spontainiously combust, seconds before they become "mold houses". pretty weird, or something

 

Be careful! If the mold is in the walls/ceiling and/or insulation, you'll have to strip it to the bare studs, joists and rafters then scrub EVERYTHING with mold killer. I've done it and it ain't no fun. I got sick everytime I worked on it to the point where I couldn't finish. My wife had to do the scrub. We then sprayed everything with the special paint they use after a fire repair before refinishing. It took months of nights and weekends before it was livable. Also, you'll need to find and repair the source of the mold so it doesn't come back. Good luck.

MRBBQMAN-
Up here we call them 'tragic fires', or something.

 

Over here, we call them "barn fires"

 

Have everything knocked down but the garage. Then have a house built just how you want it.

Good luck!

 

In Jersey, its called Jewish Lightning

 

There was an article in the Wall Street Journal just a few weeks ago (I think it was August 8th) about how most homeowners insurance policies are dropping or severely reducing any coverage for mold. Too many big payouts and we can't have that now can we?

 

mold shmold nothing like a little camp fire can't fix! :evilgrin:

 

here we call that throwing a lit joint in the trash.

 

You waste a good bud? Shame on you!

Bob

 

my bad, "a lit roach"

better?...chris

 

I'm the mold expert in my company so I checked that all out all ready. We do environmental and demolition contracting and I'm an estimator so I got that end of it covered. the drywall, insulation in walls, and flooring (carpet, tile) has to removed and replaced. the studs are pretty much all in great condition cause the mold hasn't had enough time to grow past the drywall. I checked in about 10 places that it was the worst and it was ok. The basesment is a total loss, but I figured that since it was the sump pump that went out and cause the flooding.


I should have the house gutted in about two weeks tops, I'm going to run 3 2000 CFM negative air machines in the house 24/7 and 3 dehumdifiers. Once I get the house gutted I'm going to use a 10% bleach solution and use an air less sprayer to kill anything possbly growing on any surface. then I'm going to seal all the wood with a mold resistant chemical that we use on all our abatement projects. Shouldn't be that difficult since I've done about 20 mold projects in the past year now. I'll have my buddy paul run some sample's in the air to check the spore counts from the outside spore counts and as soon as I'm lower then outside I'll be fine and dandy. As soon as its clean I need to get the HVAC unit replaced and up and running with dehumidifiers still going until a moister level of 20% or lower is reached, which should be difficult.

Then just rebuild the house and I'm all good.