Posted by Dinah on February 9, 2006, at 20:59:24
Because my mother's a hoarder, she's having trouble with the whole flood thing. She wanted to totally replace the walls in a room with minimal clutter, without removing the flooded adjoining sheetrock in a room full to the ceiling, because she needs to move stuff out of there first.
But you can't do that!!!
You'll ended up with mold growing from the wet rotted moldy sheetrock onto the brand new stuff, unless you remove that too.
ARRRRGGHHHHH
How am I going to get through this?!! I just can't leave her to screw it all up because I'm responsible for my father's ownership share.
She's just impossible. She somehow wants to spend lots of money and replace everything without throwing anything out. And she CAN'T DO THAT. Not only is it logistically impossible, but the stuff on the floor was in water, and the mold probably has grown up that stuff to the stuff above the water line by now. Although to be totally fair, I don't see any mold. Just mildew.
Sigh.
I hate to turn her in. And I'm too scared of her to just go in and throw away her stuff, which my brother has threatened to do. But he won't. He's too scared of her too.
Any suggestions?
She says all the right things, but I don't think she's going to follow through.
poster:Dinah
thread:608118
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/relate/20051204/msgs/608118.html