Posted on 11/29/2002 1:20:38 PM PST by Jean S
I did better - I moved!! Seriously, cleaning a carpet does get the carpet wet. Very wet. But, if you have A/C (r better yet, if you clean it in the heating season), you can get it totally dry within 2 or 3 days. Really, it pretty much dries out within 24 hours or so, but you know that you need to dehumidify the air constantly for a few days to really wick the moisture out. Air conditioning does this fairly well - a gas furnace in the dead of winter does even better.
My relative realized that her dishwaher was causing her to have asthma attacks. She switched soap and it stopped.
I can't walk down the aisle with detergents and cleaning products at the store without having a sneezing fit.
I think I'll sue!
I sell all my basement totals with metal instead of wood. Galvanised and won't hold water. Big seller. Makes a straight wall too.
SR
You're telling me! one of my biggest complaints about the office building I work in is that the windows are sealed shut. Good way to keep spreading viruses too. No fresh air, just recycled crap air.
I may be reading this entirely wrong, but it seemed to me that you are saying that you raise the price if people aren't informed enough to know the difference between black mold and other molds or mildews. Is this what I'm reading?
Same thing goes for something like putting in a hard wood floor. If folks new how easy it was, they would not pay 7 to 15 dollars a foot to have it put in. Same difference...
SR
Another reason I don't like airplanes!
Yes, I pulled carpet out of all the bedrooms in the old house and only kept it in the living room/hall. I still like walking on a carpeted floor. But you're right, carpets do hold dirt like there's no tomorrow.
The new house has carpet in all bedrooms and the living room. If I want hardwood, I'm going to have to remove the carpet and install the hardwood since there's only underlayment below the carpet. Perhaps in a few years.
Honestly, I don't think carpet is that big of a concern with mold, though dust and dust mites may be an issue. Mold is more likely to show up in an area that gets wet and stays wet.
BTW, you may have stumbled onto something else that can be associated with the increased occurance of asthma - carpet.
Same thing goes for something like putting in a hard wood floor. If folks new how easy it was, they would not pay 7 to 15 dollars a foot to have it put in. Same difference...
I'm having trouble deciding if you're a basic free market kind of guy or a rip-off artist. 7 to 15 dollars... that's basically a 2:1 range of price. Does that depend on the customer or the type of floor?
Drop a chunk of it in water, watch it swell. The stuff doesn't hold nails well (or the cheap wire staples a lot of them use now). When it is used for roofing, flooring or walls, it can swell enough to loosen nails from studs and joists.
Some of these sheathing and flooring materials are designed to be wet, but most aren't (at least not to stay wet). One or two rains during construction won't hurt most building materials, but a constant soaking will ruin them. Myself, I prefer plywood, though it is expensive now days.
Mold can grow in your carpetting, if you have a bad flood and it does not properly dry.
All I know is any homes I purchase in the future will not be a newer, energy efficient airtight model.
IOW, if I had a floor that was totally open and 1000 sq ft, I'd be down around 8 or 9 bucks a foot. If I had a tight kitchen with multiple islands w/walk-in pantry, I'd kick it up a bit.
BTW...It matters not the type of floor. I was talking my labor prices. Any interior specialty, if you're not making 300 to 450 a day, you're doing something wrong.
SR
Especially that 1 1/8" tongue and groove flooring. I saw a place this guy built himself where the floor was large slabs of marble set in a reinforced concrete slab. Talk about expensive...
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