Sheesh, we noticed some funny smells in the bathroom and the boiler room, and wondered what it could be.
After taking up the covering near the sink pipes, lo and behold, there’s been a small leak that must have been going on for ages and the area underneath is covered in mold and soaked through. As the building is made of wood, it’s quite worrying as wet wood must rot quicker. Not to mention the health hazards of breathing in mold spores all these while. No wonder I’ve been having headaches.
Anyway, contacted Laing and after chasing them a couple of times, we’ve finally managed to get someone to look at it. Not exactly sure what they’ve done apart from pull out a couple of pieces of wood and left them in our bathroom and declaring that it’s fixed. The mold’s still there. The leak? No idea, we haven’t used the ensuite for the past month now.
Looks like there’s more chasing up to do..
Lo and behold, the sink pipe in our ensuite has been leaking, very slowly and mold has formed around the pipe. Extremely disgusting.. and dangerous, as we have found out via the internet. Breathing in any spores could be very dangerous. We’ve contacted Laing about it naturally, but so far it’s not been attended to.
We resorted to not using the ensuite for the time being, leaving the window open and door closed to let the place dry out. Unfortunately weather has not been kind and it’s been freezing the past couple of days. Not to mention not very secure having the window left open.. it’s just an open invitation to any unsavoury characters (fingers crossed that there are none around). Going to need to chase Laing up again!
I’m just wondering, how in the world can I prevent mold from forming in the bathroom? Surely it can’t be that I have to leave windows open all the time? I’ve found condensation inside the windows of the room quite a bit. Although I’m assured that it’s normal, surely there’s something not quite right about the ventilation to have such a high content of moisture. And cooking smells linger on.. *sigh*..
