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[BrianInSuwon]

What started as a water mark in a corner of my apartment eventually turned into a flat black fungus running from the ceiling to the floor. Today I noticed several rather three dimensional brown silver fungi growing.

So I bought a can of spray paint and covered the fungus from ceiling to floor. I think the paint will kill it.

[captain kirk]

You just gotta keep hitting it with bleach. Get a spray bottle and load it up with half bleach, half water then nail it like Quick Draw McGraw. Before retiring your bleach pistol (pour the dilution back into the bleach bottle) fill it with water and spray it thru to keep the spraybottle mechanism from melting down due to corrosive bleach in there.

But now that you've spraypainted it that doesn't matter any more. Mad that.

[teachingld2004]

Be very careful with mold. I know u covered it with paint, but that most likely will not kill it. If spray painting killed mold, more people would do it.

Just notice, that if you get sick, dizzy, nauseous, head throbbing, have breathing problems, it may be the mold.

I got super sick in the last apartment I lived in because of mold. (left the apartment, left the job, feel great)

I was geting headaches, and had very bad mood swings. Then I noticed a bit of mold, and then more and more. Went away for a weekend came back to a horror zone. Nothing I did got rid of it.

Hope the spray paint works, but look all over the apartment for any mold, and bleach it immediately.

[BigBlackEquus]

To kill mold, you must spray it with a bleach/water mix, as mentioned. If you really want to get rid of it, you have to tear the paper off, pull up the flooring, and spray/scrub that too. Otherwise, it just keeps coming back.

Think it's bad now? Wait until we have a damp spring!

[BrianInSuwon]

I'll definitely buy some bleach.

What makes me mad is I commented on the mold problem before moving in, before they put up the new wall-paper. So I move in, the new paper is up, everything looks great and then 3 months later, I get the water mark on the new paper and then 2 months later the mold is back in the same spots.

Its just an old building. If it comes back, I'll bleach it. Thanks for the advice on cleaning out the spray bottle.

[BigBlackEquus]

When I had mold on my walls, I tore off the paper all the way around, and they sort of had to repaper it after I did that.

[snehulak]

I live in an old building, too, and when I complained about the mold problem their response was to just repaper the offending areas. In less than a week the mold was back stronger than ever. It must feed off of the glue.

I spray the mold with a bleach/water mixture about once every two weeks. It always comes back.

So mold causes dizziness, too? I've been having strange feelings of dizziness or vertigo since I came here last September. I wonder if the mold is the culprit.

[Qinella]

The apartment I'm in has an enormous section of mold that became black and rather scary when the cold weather came. I was told this mold has been here at least two years prior to my moving in.

One day it came in handy, though. The building owner decided he wanted to give tours of my apartment to people one Sunday afternoon. Why, I don't know. But the people spotted the mold, and when he tried to brush it off as nothing, I told the people it's been there for at least two years. They looked horrified and immediately left.

[tacon101]

oh dear i just noticed i'm growing mold too...and now i'm going to be paranoid that all of my headaches, dizziness, and perpetual laziness is due to that...