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| From | Dave Seaman <seamand@upmc.edu> |
| Subject | The moldy apple bed |
| Date | Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:41:09 -0500 |
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On a positive note - just got a copy of The Apple Bed by Nick Heyward, and
am really enjoying it - good CD! good vocals, performance, production,
songs, the whole deal. What band did he come from?
On a negative note - was looking in my album collection this weekend, which
lives in my (newly finished) basement, on an open backed shelve against the
wall. I pulled out a stack of lps and found that BLACK MOLD is growing on
the wall along the baseboard behind my albums. The albums do not touch the
wall where the mold is, but are about 1/2" away from the affected wall.
Some of the albums in the bottom row have a bit of an odor, and some of the
cardboard sleeves feel a bit ...er.. Moldy? ...to the touch - not damp, but
a bit soft, as if they are on the verge of being damp. So I'm thinking, is
the mold in the album sleeves? I didn't see any black spots on the album
sleeves, just on the walls, but didn't inspect the albums that closely yet.
I'm very allergic to mold so I guess I'm afraid to - don't want to nuke my
sinuses. Worried that I may have to trash a lot of records - or all of
them. I've heard mold spreads insideously. So that's bad enough.
Much worse is thinking I may have to rip up my walls to see if there is mold
behind the drywall, and god knows what drastic, time consuming, unhealthy,
expensive measures I'll have to take if god forbid I find it there! Damn, I
just finished my basement 2 yrs ago - 2x4s, drywall, paint, carpet, drop
ceiling, the whole deal!
Am actually hoping that the mold came from the albums, not from the wall --
as bad as that is, much less expensive to replace, and I could probably live
without 2/3s of the albums anyway, in fact I've probably only listened to a
dozen of them in the past several years. I do remember getting a stack of
albums from a friend a few years ago and filing them away - they were old,
the covers a bit decrepit, I think he had them in his basement and if I
recall had water problems at his place. Maybe some of them were moldy and I
never took the trouble to notice it? So I let in the trojan horse?
Mostly am thinking it was a bad move to keep the albums so close to the
basement floor... Anyone else had these problems or any suggestions?
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