Yeah. I was about to book a company who gave me a quote after just looking up into one of my attics, and then estimating square footage.
I decided to get another quote and this guy looked into the other attic and spotted the mold. I wonder if the other guy would have just shown up and sprayed insulation over the mold rather than tell me about it and lose his day of work.
It’s a dirty sweaty nightmare of a job (much like making love to
@conor mcgregor nut hugger ‘s wife)
but my instinct is to just endure it and break my back to save the 2,500 grand for removal, but now I’m reading that if the mold is dry and inactive, it is safe to spray New insulation over top of it. I have a guy coming in to do an air test later this week and apparently he can tell me if it’s safe to go ahead with removing the old stuff.
I don’t know if I trust it. A lot of these mold companies seem like hucksters playoffs by off people’s fear of “Black Mold”. I had one guy tell me “No matter what you do, don’t open that hatch again! You’ll have black mold spores all through your house!” I said “Well how are you going to tell me how bad my problem is?” He says well who told you you had mold. I said “some guy giving me an insulation quote” I swear to god he says “Well if he says you have a problem you have a problem, “those guys” are good they know what they’re doing. Send me your address we’ll send someone out” Fucking slime bag.
The advice that makes the most sense to me, is the advice I got from the old guy at Home Depot. He set me up with a good respirator. Then recommended some mold killer/preventative called Concrobium. He swears it’s the same stuff the contractors but off him to use for my very problem. I bought a sprayer and 8 gallons of the stuff so my plan is after removing all the old insulation, to saturate the Attic with this stuff.
