Killing Mold with YL Thieves EO & Grief, part 1

I had an opportunity to try out the YL Thieves Household Cleaner in a way I was not expecting… on mold… to kill mold.

A friend had organized the ladies at church to come to my home and help me go through each room, one at a time and clear out the clutter,  re-organize, clean it all up and fix what needed fixing.  That was suppose to happen back in May and June.  I cancelled that as I wasn’t ready to do that.

The grieving person has to deal with things when they are ready to do so.

One of the ideas was also for me to hold a garage sale.  Yeah?  Not.

UM… preparing for a garage sale is a tremendous amount of work with  little money top show for it without some bigger ticket or *popular* items (like baby cloths!).

I was going to say it is too bad I don’t have any of those except that my *baby* is 14!!  Phew.  I guess I haven’t kept everything after all.  :-)

What I did start to do was pack up The Patriarch’s clothing into boxes until I decided what to do with them.

That is when I found… it.

Mold.  On the walls and then I discovered it was in the carpeting too!

So I borrowed a carpet steamer and added some Thieves Household Cleaner to the water.  It helped the carpet some and I figured that I just hadn’t used enough.  So I steamed it a second time with a LOT more in the water.  That kept the mold smell at bay for a few additional days… but I was starting to smell it again when I walked on the carpeting.

I was able to talk to a builder friend of mine who said I should really get the carpet out of there.  Another builder friend was coming in 2 days to pick up anything I had for a run to the dump.  Can we say moldy carpeting and padding?

So Arrow pulled up all the carpeting and padding from the master bedroom floor.  We both got a face full of mold!  ICK!  I started us on some Thieves internally to ward off any potential problems from inhaling all that mold.

I had the friend making the dump-run look at the sub-flooring.  Thankfully it was not buckling, bubbling, warping, disintegrating or separating.  As he looked at the floor he said that, because the mold was only in the walk way areas, that the previous owners must have shampooed the carpeting and left it too wet.  I know they used to lock one cat in the master bedroom and one in the laundry room when they left for work.  You can see the spots on the master bedroom sub-flooring where the cat peed… more than once.

I don’t like cats.  This just adds additional confirmation.

To read the rest of the story: Part 2

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Blessings, Aunt Mae

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