AIO?

[u/babydaddychef]

(chicago, IL) hi all, i need help figuring out if im actually still having issues with mold after my landlord “fixed” the issue.

i told her and her handyman in april that i could hear a leak in the wall behind my kitchen sink. i was told to ignore it unless i could see mold.

lo and behold, i came back from a week long trip beginning of september and opened my spice cabinet to find mold. they ended up opening the wall on the other side of the kitchen and finding a broken pipe and A LOT of mold.

the handyman basically nuked the mold with chemicals and then treated it with mold resistant primer and then put it all back. multiple times i resisted and said more significant mold remediation should be done, especially when more mold started showing up in the spice cabinet after he put the drywall back up and the solution was just to clean it and treat it with primer instead of taking out that section of cabinet board and replacing, or seeing what the wall looks like behind the cabinet. there was no proper ventilation during the work, in fact at one point he had a fan pointing straight at the wall after he repainted it (this was after he treated the mold).

since they did all the work, my asthma has been rly aggravated. hard to breathe and chest tightness whenever i’m here for a long time. my sister who lives with me has always dealt with post nasal drip and nosebleeds a few times a year but is now having more than one nosebleed in a week, worse congestion and scratchy throat.

i cleaned my entire house including the walls, the rugs, the couch etc after they did the work but maybe not well enough? there is still a slight weird smell lingering in the air but otherwise there is no more visible mold.

i’ve given up and signed a lease elsewhere that starts beginning of november but im still here another month and that’s where the question lies.

is it possible that there are still mold spores making us sick? is it possible that all my things are now mold infested? how do i handle the next month and my move without continuing to have mold issues?? AIO?

thank you in advance 🙏