My family and I bought a new house in August. Shortly afterwards we noticed some discoloration (I thought it looked like mold) of some of the trim under a couple of the sinks and we asked the builder about it.
He said they had had a HVAC drip line leak during the building process but that they had sprayed it with bleach and all should be ok. A couple months later I was under the cabinet in my 4 year old son’s room and noticed some more. It was covered in fuzzy black mold. The builder and his team came by and over the course of the next couple weeks we gradually removed more and more of the cabinet, drywall and insulation in the immediate area of those two bathrooms until we could see no more mold. I then had whole-home (Lennox) air purifiers installed and air quality tests done by a certified mold inspector in the bathrooms and other areas of the home. They came back normal. I still smell a “musty” smell. It appears that the “musty” smell is coming from under the subfloor. Our home is on a pier-and-beam crawlspace. The “ceiling” of the crawlspace is sprayed-in foam insulation. Is it possible that the air of the crawlspace is getting into my son’s bathroom THROUGH the insulation? If so, is this normal? I am terrified that the mold is still growing back there or perhaps we missed some.
Cathleen
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