Hi
I"m a new member here, so thank you for your time upfront!
We bought a house that was built on spec 2 months ago, and while I was installing some wiring in the basement, I pulled off a piece of insulation on the pony wall (the short wall above the foundation and the bottom floor, where the floor joists attach) and noticed what I thought was surface mold behind it. (nothing crazy but defiantly mold) After debating on it, I called in a company who deals with this type of thing and they felt it was mold, and indicated that the lack of vapor barrier over the insulation would have caused the condensation over the winter (while the house was being finished).
Now this being a brand new home, with a Lux warrenty we called up the builder and he agreed to look at it. He brought the subcontractor who would have installed the insulation and they tried to convince me that it wasn't mold. In the end they agreed to install the vapor barrier but I told them I would get back to them as I wanted to check on what to do about the mold.
I decided to clean this mold myself as there wasn't much on the osb so I pulled down all the insulation and sprayed the osb with diluted bleach water and I attempted to clean off the surface mold...but without any great success.
My question is now do I spray it again, put up the insulation after it dries, have them vapor barrier it and forget it? Or should I have more done to remove the mold from the OSB?
Thanks again for reading this and your answers.
I"m a new member here, so thank you for your time upfront!
We bought a house that was built on spec 2 months ago, and while I was installing some wiring in the basement, I pulled off a piece of insulation on the pony wall (the short wall above the foundation and the bottom floor, where the floor joists attach) and noticed what I thought was surface mold behind it. (nothing crazy but defiantly mold) After debating on it, I called in a company who deals with this type of thing and they felt it was mold, and indicated that the lack of vapor barrier over the insulation would have caused the condensation over the winter (while the house was being finished).
Now this being a brand new home, with a Lux warrenty we called up the builder and he agreed to look at it. He brought the subcontractor who would have installed the insulation and they tried to convince me that it wasn't mold. In the end they agreed to install the vapor barrier but I told them I would get back to them as I wanted to check on what to do about the mold.
I decided to clean this mold myself as there wasn't much on the osb so I pulled down all the insulation and sprayed the osb with diluted bleach water and I attempted to clean off the surface mold...but without any great success.
My question is now do I spray it again, put up the insulation after it dries, have them vapor barrier it and forget it? Or should I have more done to remove the mold from the OSB?
Thanks again for reading this and your answers.