My Moldy House

You may remember this post about our fixer upper house. We bought this farm in March 2016 and gutted it. We spent about 16 months working on it and got it about 80% done. We figured the remaining projects could be worked on over time.

The last time I was active here on Steemit was this past April. I had been making great efforts to post more regularly and was really enjoying it. I was also 7.5 months pregnant with our surprise bonus baby. And then the labs came back from the doctor and everything changed. I had mold toxicity, CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome), Mast Cell Disease, and my genetic combination made it so I couldn't naturally detox mold. This explained my symptoms and also why I never got better when I treated the Chronic Lyme Disease. We were stumped though because we had brought this house down to it's bones and said no sign of mold. The only place we couldn't access is under the living room as it is a log cabin structure with no crawl space. We assumed that's where the mold was. The inspector came and found mold growth on the brand new floor joists we installed 18 months earlier. No joke.

Due to my severe reaction to the mold we had to move out of the house and into a tent until remediation could be arranged. The inspector said the under carriage of the house needed to be scrubbed and a vapor barrier installed in order to remediate. Due to my heightened senstivity my doctor suggested that even after rennovation we sell and move someplace else. The game plan was to remediate, sell, and move. Except no remediation comlanies would quote our job due to lack of crawl space. My husband is too tall to do the work himself and we have exhausted all our finances at this point. So we are going to list for sale "as is" with full disclosure.

I want to add that after researching mold sickness one of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to make the house air tight so it was more efficient. By doing this we made it so the house couldn't breath causing an increased risk of sickness from mold.

So that's where I have been. Throwing away almost everything I own, moving into a temporary dwelling, having a baby, and battling sickness from the mold.