Had a leak; now what?

Mold needs moisture to grow. If you had moisture for a month or two, it would be a good precaution to demo and replace. A few days, not so much. It will dry naturally, and as long as additional water isn’t leaking, leave it. Having recently (a year ago) had Sandy water in our house, apparently sea water and the thorough soaking did keep it wet enough to create mold. I assume yours was a feed leak rather than a waste water leak?

brucef

in About Brooklyn 11 years and 11 months ago

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mortgageslave | 11 years and 11 months ago

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I did a search for queries like this and didn’t come up with much….. we had a leak from a pipe in an upstairs bathroom — very slow but it went on for a few days. What we could see at the end of that was watermarks on a ceiling two stories below and a sodden sheetrock wall and ceiling on the floor in between. I pulled out the wet sheetrock and opened up the ceiling on the middle floor, and have a couple fans drying the space out. I haven’t opened up the ceiling on the bottom floor, but I’m wondering if I need to in order to dry out whatever’s up there. A contractor who’s working at our house on something else told me no, don’t bother, it’ll dry out, and another knowledgeable person told me the same. And it’s a large ceiling in a crowded room inhabited by tenants, and I’d really rather not open it up if I don’t have to. But the fear that it’s wet up there and that a mold problem is going to result is a powerful one…. any opinions? In general I’m wondering how far I need to go to address the damp spaces created by the leak, and wondering who I could tap for an expert opinion. Are there people who specialize in this kind of thing whose goal isn’t to fan unfounded fears about mold? Much obliged for any notions.