Monday, July 19, 2010

Way Back When Wednesday - Our Moldy Apartment

You know you're living in a cheap place when you've got mold growing on the wall paper.  In the bedroom.

The builder pasted the wall paper directly on the cement walls.  The same cement walls that were also the exterior walls.  And the same cement walls that connected up with the unsealed cement roof.  So we got a lot of seepage when the weather was wet.

Mr. Kim came over a couple times to either "insulate" our walls by pasting styrofoam on top of the moldy wall paper, or to clean the wall paper with bathroom cleaner.  I assume to kill the mold.  


Eventually, the owner of the building had the roof sealed with this nasty smelling green stuff, and that helped, but nothing really worked.  We just had to live with it.  

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