Comment by RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net on Basement shower

Holy fucking shit I didn’t noticed.

Why the fuck you like carpets so much, it’s fucking gross just to think about them.

I have always lived houses with tiles and I mop the floor every week else everything is filthy. How the hell you mop a fucking carpet?

gonna be mold central, especially with that half height open, uh design of the shower itself. But it’s cheap and easy I guess haha :agony-shivering: fuck, how do you build this and feel like it’s ready for human habitation - let alone take money for it goddamn

The place I’m staying in is all carpeted except linoleum in the kitchen and bathroom. Thing is, it’s a converted stand-alone garage so there’s no foundation, it’s just ground, concrete, padding, then carpet. When it rains, water seeps up from cracks in the concrete. The carpets get slightly damp, repeatedly. It has been like this since the mid 90s. I know I’m getting fucking poisoned with mold, like literally, I have some weird neurological issues that my psychiatrist was convinced was the result of mold toxicity before knowing anything about my living situation. But I have nowhere else to go, so every day I feel like total shit and wonder how much long term health damage is being inflicted on me by fucking spores emanating from carpet.

Yea, I can relate; got some mold here too, though probably not as bad. It’s a fucked up feeling when you know each breath is detrimental to your health, and that there’s nothing you can really do about it. Masks maybe, but you can’t really wear those at night… I hope you can get out of there somehow soon.

It’s a fucked up feeling when you know each breath is detrimental to your health

It really, really is, and it makes for a nice little closed loop of health deterioration because constantly recognizing that^ fact is also detrimental to mental health.
Thanks. I’d like to get out of here too, but I don’t know if that will ever happen. It’s weird because in other ways I know I’m really lucky to have it as good as I do, being able to stay here basically rent-free with no income. I’m rather stuck. Anyway, yeah I likewise hope you can get a place where you don’t have to worry about that shit either, or if it’s not too extensive, get the mold dealt with somehow, ideally by the fucking landlord, assuming you rent.

Yep, that’s what I do. I’ve got a HEPA running 24/7. And I sleep next to an open window with a little fan directing their airflow towards my head to try to get as much fresh, outside air as possible. It’s a bit much when it’s a real cold night, but still worth it.

I dunno, that sounds pretty bad to me. Even with the door closed, the fucking spores can still permeate the whole space pretty easily. If it’s that thick, I’d be surprised if you weren’t still being exposed quite a bit unfortunately. And from my limited understanding, a person may not feel effected by it at all until a certain threshold is reached. A threshold of either amount of exposure, length of time exposed, or getting sick in some other way just being too much for the immune system which then suddenly can’t deal with the mold toxins even though it previously had.

Yes, the Maoist revolution can’t come soon enough.

Also, too bad BMF isn’t still around to guide us through these issues.

Also, too bad BMF isn’t still around to guide us through these issues.

I have good news for you.

I mean, call the city inspectors, but who knows how they’ll actually deal with it

There’s gotta be some law or something that says you can’t poison your tenant like that. Or maybe you can at least make them think there is so they’ll replace the carpet with linoleum or something.

I should look into that, yeah. But complicating everything is that the landlord is a relative who is letting me stay here more or less without having to really pay rent. It’s a weird situation and I’ll spare the details, but yeah, I am trying to look into what can be done without upsetting too many balances.

That’s probably a pre-ww2 relic - these were said to be used by steelworkers and miners; grimy from the day’s labor; they could use an exterior door to enter the basement directly from outside and use the basement’s shower before heading upstairs.

Pittsburgh bathroom is what I heard it was called

Pittsburgh was unique in that there were also toilets.

I wouldn’t be shocked if they just kept going after they stopped doing exterior entrances “because we’ve always done it that way”

How the hell you mop a fucking carpet?

You don’t. You buy a vacuum cleaner!

But the sticky things, how you get them off then?

Say your dog shat on the carpet, or you spilled something oily, or jam, or whatever.

Just wipe it with a baby wipe and forget what happened. That’s probably not the “right” way to do it but there’s a reason I refuse to have carpets

There are specialized carpet cleaning products for this that are widely available in stores. For the ones that I am familiar with, you spray it onto the dirty area, brush it into the carpet, let it dry, then vacuum it up.

There are larger machines that one can rent for “shampooing” the entire carpet area, which is something that ought to be done regularly. There are also professional services that do this.

I’d rather just have a rug that you can take outside and beat the dirt out of.

It’s the same as cleaning car seats. You use a machine to shampoo them.

Carpet is fucking gross. I’m so happy my apartment has none

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