12:18 PM – No work done in unit
Our keys still do not open front door but Coastline will continue to leave door unlocked for the remainder of the month. Dehumidifier not running but left behind along with debris-filled buckets.
12:20 PM – Finger wipes mold spores off living room couch
Robert Soto would recommend to Coastline our belongings be professionally fogged and HEPA vacuumed. Jimmy Ordaz of Coastline promised that our belongings would be cleaned in the recommended manner but that would never happen. Our belongings would be left in this state.
No change in upstairs bathroom. Still nails. Still mold.
Air upstairs still smells like mold despite Coastline’s claim of an “air clearance” the previous day.
12:22 PM – More moldy areas
Touring wet areas that Robert Soto of Ameriflood Environmental identified as high risk for more mold.
12:23 PM – Worker in apartment
Confronting someone in our left-unlocked apartment inspecting the dehumidifier.
6:16 PM – Robert calls with mold test results
Robert Soto of Ameriflood Environmental calls with mold results. The air is off the charts for four different molds but one stands out — Stachybotrys — which takes a long time to grow and is known to be toxic to infants. The spores have poured all over our baby stuff stored in the living area.
Full remediation is required for Stachybotrys counts of 1m3 and our unit’s count came back 40 times higher — 40m3. Stachybotrys is especially dangerous alongside elevated levels of Chaetomium, Penicillium, and Aspergillus which are all alarmingly high in the report.
Stachybotrys and carcinogenic Chaetomium will continue to increase spore counts with access to moisture, so patching over the problem without remediation — as Coastline has done in this instance — only grows the problem. And they’ve already attempted to tell us it’s safe to move back in.
Below: Comprehensive Mold Report Results. Click on the document to turn pages:
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