"Apartment resembles an abandoned one." Residents of burned-out houses on Lenina Street — about the "invasion" of mold

All because the fire damaged the roof, water soaked all property down to the first floor, but a new scourge appeared — mold. And it, frankly, while not destroying everything in its path, definitely ruins things irreversibly, writes Onliner.by.

"Even if the ceiling and floor are visually clean, there may be mold inside"

Ihar is the owner of an apartment on the fourth floor of the first entrance of house No. 11. All days after the fire, the man tirelessly turned on the dehumidifier, which generally coped well with its task: no mold appeared on the plastered ceiling. But it was not to be. Recently, Ihar decided to film what was happening under the plaster and was very surprised.

— We found a document from the 50s, which clearly shows the construction of the ceilings, — the resident of Minsk says. — In most apartments, they are wooden, with lath and plaster. All of this was plastered over from above, leaving cavities underneath.

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— I got under the plaster with an inspection camera to film what was happening there. And while there were only leaks on the ceiling itself, inside there was a lot of moisture and mold.

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— Yesterday, employees from the Housing Institute came to us, additionally uncovered the ceiling, and confirmed that it was indeed wet and had mold. They checked all rooms and recorded it in the report.

So the news is unsettling: even if the ceiling and floor are visually clean, they need to be uncovered and looked into deeper.

All residents need to be informed (at least the residents of the top floors) about this necessity. First: uncover the floors, remove sand and construction debris. All of it is wet and long-standing there. While it dries, moisture will go into the dry beams. And if the ceiling beams rot, then, of course, it will be dangerous to live in the house.

Second: from the reverse side, residents need to remove the plaster from the ceilings and remove the lath and plaster to allow everything to dry thoroughly.

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At the same time, it can be assumed that not everyone manages to thoroughly dry their premises. For instance, in one of the apartments, mold began to spread from the ceiling down the walls due to excessive moisture in the floor of the apartment above.

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"The apartment resembles an abandoned one"

Journalists wrote about Iryna's father's apartment in the previous report. The three-room apartment is located in house No. 9. And if two weeks ago it looked more or less decent, now nothing is left of the familiar dwelling — everything has been dismantled.

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— At the moment, the apartment resembles an abandoned one or something even worse. In the rooms, the plaster has been completely removed from the walls. The floor is disassembled to such an extent that you can almost see the neighbor's apartment, because the ceilings turned out to be wooden. All of this had to be taken apart, because nothing was drying. The dehumidifier worked for a month. It extracted moisture from the surfaces, but couldn't reach the depth.

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— Okay, parquet, okay, subfloor — to be thrown out. But the joists are also moldy, — Iryna continues. — And even that's not the worst part. It's clearly visible that the supporting beams also have damage: the beams are black and wet.

Now I will continue drying the premises, and in parallel, perform mold treatment. Maybe everything will dry out, or maybe not.

"Industrial drying of the building's structures is needed"

Residents of the Stalin-era houses shared how they envision further actions to save the buildings, which are their native homes and a historical and cultural value for the city:

— Industrial drying of the building's structures, apartments, entrances, utility, and other premises is needed, as well as industrial mold treatment. Today, the scale of the fungus is colossal!

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