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Wondering if anyone can tell me what this is, if I should be worried, and what my course of action should be? Background: We moved in to an older house in Princeton that has been divided into four apartments in July (7 months ago).
That means there's not much weather strip or insulation around the window because it looks like a lot of wind and moisture is going through and creating a mold farm.
Clean it out with bleach and at some point the window molding should be removed and the window frame also should have a lot of mold growing inside.
Disinfect room area often those mold is gonna keep growing until the window frame is weather insulated.
Thanks! I will add that every window in the apartment is like this. The top section of these windows will all fall down unless they are locked in somehow taped/propped up, so not having a great seal makes sense.
Additionally, we have a window in our shower (house converted into an apartment) that looks like this…
FWIW: I know the people who were supposed to rent before us got denied because they asked them to fix this shower-window (and some other stuff). We were desperate so we took the place site-unseen.
That is a lot of mold around the windows
Was caused by poor/no air circulation and damp conditions. maybe condensation, shower, humidity etc
You should get it tested with a mold kit, just to be sure what you are dealing with.
But, for the "right now, you should clean it immediatly
bleach, bleach and cleaner
while doing the cleaning, I would have a fan blowing out a window so you are not exposed to much with mold spores.
no matter what kind of mold it is, not get the spores thruout the house/apt.
This will not go away on it's own, and will get worse.
But even after you do all of that.
You have to wonder what is inside the walls
Has the mold spread (or is worse than what you see) inside the walls ?
Maybe what you see on the outsode is the tip of the inside the wall iceberg
The only way you can investigate the inside, tear open a hole and look inside or borrow/rent a scope to put inside the wall and examine what is on the backside of the walls.
The condition of the windown in the shower is pretty normal for a window that someone stupidly put inside a shower.
Might have some mold, but looks mostly like wood rot and blistered off paint.
Why anyone would put a window in a shower is beyond me. even worse with wood trim
WTH? Are those pictures from the day that you moved in? It's good that you have photos, but I hope that you've cleaned the area.
I agree that it is a weather stripping, insulation, caulk problem. Something around that window is rotting. It's not going to go away until the underlying problem is fixed/remediated.
Cover that shower window with plastic curtains or something.
No, unfortunately, these pictures are from a few days ago.
I'm guessing the reason there is a window in the shower is because this is a house converted into 4 apartments. We had a shower-window in a complex we lived in in Virginia, but it had tiles and not wood around it.
Cleaning it will get mold spores into the air (assuming it is mold.)
I suggest testing immediately. If it is toxic mold than you really don't want to mess with that at all.
There are companies that do mold remediation. They wear fulll body suits & masks, so you get the idea of how dangerous mold can be.
Mold is way overrated. Just another way to collect large sums of money from the home owner- scare them!
What , people think mold just started to appear on the map in the last 20 years. No It's been around forever but somehow they try to scare you to part with your money. Anyone with basic skills can tackle that, no problem.
Here's an idea since mold needs moisture, open the window when taking a shower.
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