About three weeks ago Greg noticed that a spot on the wall above the stove, near the ceiling looked odd. So I climbed up on the cabinets to take a look. I touched the wall and found only mush, the only thing that was keeping my fingers from going right through the wall was the layer of paint on it! We had a leak!!! The pipe that drained all the water from our upstairs laundry room and guest bathroom was leaking, the plumber said that it probably was leaking for years! But there was no signs that anything in the house was damaged. We called the plumber the next day and this is what he did to our wall:
During his work he cut a whole near the floor behind the stove and this is what we saw:
Yep thats what you think it is MOLD! We had to take the upper cabinets down to find the extent of the damage and this was the greusome discovery:
I don't have any pictures of when we took out the bottom cabinets but there was a ton more mold down there hidden behind them. I was utterly devastated! My house is usually pretty clean but this made me feel really dirty and icky.
Here's a little side note....I have been sick for weeks now and couldn't figure out why. Now I have a pretty good idea because I'm extremely allergic to mold! Luckily neither of the boys show any signs that it was bothering them. We took down the entire wall and was left with this:
Its been a few weeks since we tore the wall down and we just got the drywall finished yesterday. Today the boys are working on putting in the bottom cabinets, then a guy is supposed to come by and do the texturing. When that is all done I will paint and we will hang the upper cabinets! Hopefully not to far in the future!
