JerryMouse wrote:
MLD wrote:

Your home owner's insurance should cover just about all of your
expenses and usually will pay the "restoration company" what ever
their bill is minus your deductible. Why is that not the way to go
in your case? $23,000 in not out of line--taking to someone that
went through this process.


Nope. Homeowner policies are written today to specifically exclude mold
remediation.

Why?

Because there's mold everywhere and hysteria is catching.

Mold is the latest in a long line of nonsense: asbestos, silicon breast
implants, global warming, carbohydrates.

Next year there will be something else to fear.

Paint over the **** and keep quite about it.



You forgot lead paint, and radon.

I agree with you about the hysteria thing. But you can't just paint
over the mold -- for one thing, the paint won't stick. You need to
remove as much mold as is reasonable, dry everything out (which might
mean opening up the walls and tearing out old insulation and drywall),
and seal the remaining mold with shellac or kilz, or paint with
mildewcide in it.

*Then* keep quiet about it.

Bob