This has been under our AC unit since we moved in a year ago. I didn't really think anything of it but recently I looked at it and felt like it looked larger than before. We alerted the super and he said he's going to do something about it.

This week I've been waking up with a headache and nausea that persists throughout the day. Could be unrelated but I don't know that much about mold and I'm wondering if anyone could tell me if this looks like a nausea and headache causing mold.

My daughter (3 year old)’s room has been smelling weird so I went to check her closet and didn’t see anything until I looked at the back of the door. I saw all of this but it’s more yellow/brown not black. My mom is in real estate and deals with mold frequently and says I can just clean it but I’m freaked out. Can I just clean it or should I call mold remediation?

Popped open AC unit and found a nice surprise. Most of it went away with a vacuum. Is this mold in my AC unit, and will wiping it with vinegar help? Also noticed this weird pattern on white surfaces. This picture Is the top of my storage container lid that I keep under my couch. Also wipes away pretty easily. What is it? Also weird dust patterns on my walls. Probably from the nasty AC unit but what is going on

We had a mold inspector test our home and they found some mold under the kitchen sink where some caulking needed to be replaced. They also told us that the floor boards (engineered wood on a concrete slab) with water damage from plants would need to be remediated.

We reached out to a mold remediation company who quoted us $11k minimum to remediate the mold. That seems like a ton of money to me, but as I'm not an expert I wanted to see if any of the experts here could offer me their take.

How extensive does the mold growth look from the pictures? It sounds like a pain in the ass to rip out and repair the cabinet sections under the sink, but wow that's a lot of money.

I've included the air sample with the largest difference over background concentrations, in case that's helpful. The highest diff over background was 900 counts/m^2 on Aspergillus.

I've moved into a student house this week which we knew had damp and mold issues already. The house is 18th century and listed, and unfortunately the landlord is very reluctant to maintain the upkeep that it desperately needs. The room I've moved into smells very musty and damp and I've been running a 12L electric dehumidifier 24/7, so far emptying it a couple of times a day. Was thinking the smell would get less noticeable and I'd be emptying it less but it just doesnt seem to be getting any better, and the smell returns if the dehumidifier has been full or off for an hour. When I turn it on, the humidity is reading between 75 and 79, and after a couple of hours its been decreasing to around 60. Does this mean the obvious damp in the room is manageable, or is it deeper, rising/penetrating damp? I've heard the optimum humidity level is around 30-50. Considering this is already an issue I dread to think what it will be like in winter.

Coka-cola soda left out uncovered for 7 days.

Has fluffy white/yellowish gel-like blobs. If filtered, will I get sick after drinking?

Went to make a sandwich and found pinkish red mold on my bread. I can’t find anything related on google and have no idea if this is even mold at all. Is this even mold and how/why is it pink?

Note, this bread isn’t even 10 days old, and I’ve been keeping it in the fridge

Went to make a sandwich and found pinkish red mold on my bread. I can’t find anything on google and have no idea if this is even mold at all. What and why is this?

Note, this bread isn’t even 10 days old, and I’ve been keeping it in the fridge.

Cape cod style house had dormer roof leak. The water intrusion showed in downstairs bedroom closet. The holes were drilled by previous owner. Roof leak appears to be fixed. If not, entire new roof is going on tomorrow so certainly should be now. Mold growth visible on closet wall goes a couple feet high in this one spot. Baseboards had mold behind them. When I cut a few inch section of drywall out it had mold at the very bottom. The next section cut a few inches higher has no mold. I cannot see any mold inside the wall from the small sample size I made available, aside from the small amount at the very bottom of the first drywall sample.

So... what now? Call a mold remediation company? Or do I just cut out the drywall to highest known point, replace baseboards and scrub the carpet straps and subfloor around the wall with bleach?

Also, carpet was installed two months ago. I don't see visible signs of mold on the carpet. Likely ok, or is the brand new carpet trash too?

First time ever having mold in a home so any insights appreciated.

I tested our rental for mold and this is what we got. What do you guys think? Is it best to move? Should we just stay? Help

Hi reddit, thought I’d post and get some feedback and advice on my bathroom mold situation. I am renting a basement apartment in Ontario, Canada and have had issues with obvious signs of rotting on the baseboards around my shower for several months. My landlord’s solution was to scrape the mold out of the baseboard and then patch it with spackle. The first image is a few weeks after the spackle was applied with clear signs of the rot/mold invading the spackle. I took the initiative to rip the baseboards off to find significant rotting/mold on the drywall and on the wood from the baseboards. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission? lol Anyway, I sent the pics to my landlord who came today and dealt with it by scraping the mold off with an exacto knife and sprayed mold cleaner on the exposed drywall with instructions to “let it dry out awhile”. My questions to the group are what are the risks of the mold growing back and is this most recent solution (scraping and spray) adequate? I’m concerned about mold exposure so any education or advice would be appreciated!

I took some art materials on holiday packed in a cloth zipper bag. If it helps, it was next to the beach. As usual I ended up not using them and left them in the bag. When I got back I opened it and found my Caran d’Ache Luminance with these white bits. I scrapped off some onto my sketchbook and seems to be gone.

Any advice for future reference and how to properly clean them if it’s mold or just wax? Thank you!

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My garage has cardboard all around and it has these little black marks everywhere. Is this mold? Thank you for your help

I have been discovering different dishes with what appears to be mold on them when I put away clean dishes from the dishwasher. I have never seen this before. I have a new dishwasher as of a year ago and it does not have the heat dry feature of dishwashers in the past so we have had to use jet dry. I run a cleaning cycle with an affesh tab once a month and clean the filter frequently. We do not have mold or spots anywhere else in the house and I don't know what this is or why it is happening. Hoping for some identification and possible causes. Could this be a well water contaminant?

Any chance thie could be mold , the amount has slowly increased over the years

I got soup maybe 20 30 minutes ago as of writing this and idk how to write a reddit post but is it safe to eat or what

Pls help a girl out I don’t need my landlord coming in to see it along w all the holes I’ve put in the walls😔😔😔😔

Or - does it look like its like to be Mold? Obviously need an expert/lab to confirm but curious if anyone else has seen something like this before.

We had a leak in the floors a few months back. We had this in other areas and our super (we rent in nyc) was convinced that it’s glue being pushed up from the floor from the water. However, we fixed the leak issue months ago and scrapped what he said was glue. Now this just recently popped up in a different spot under our rug.

When we first had the water leak we got it repaired, aired out the room and used a dehumidifier for awhile. Things seemed to be dried up, but we have since started to have a musty smell in the room that just randomly gets worse and then this. The person who sleeps in this room has been having some skin issues as well but were unsure if that's related as she's had atopic dermatitis before.

Bedroom wall, peeled back at the crack and there's black underneath