I demo'd the plaster and am thinking I should rebuild a frame to adhere the sheetrock after a lot of kilz. Super old house, the rest of this small basement has 2x2 framing. Do the same? Any advice welcome as I've never done a remodel on a house this old. Its for my dad, so cheap and easy is best. Doesn't need to look perfect, he wanted shiplap sooooo...
I was also thinking of using the tar sealant stuff I've used on the outside of foundations just to try to keep it together. Or will just kilz work?
I'm sick just looking at that
Yup. Mexican's said they'd rather take their chances with ICE.
Hahahaha. Omg. Yikes
Yeah fix whatever caused this mess to begin with before you fix these walls. Another comment was probably right when they said fix your foundation and the drainage area around it. You have to much water seeping into your basement.
There is absolutely no "cheap and easy" fix here. The water issue must be addressed prior to any interior cosmetic work.
It has been addressed. The city fixed the problem. It was tree roots growing into underground pipes.
Also new roofing and gutters have been installed.
The first step is to fix the water problem. Gutter, improve grade, drain tile or whatever. Then finish however you would like. If you want shiplap attach thin furring strips on the wall and go for it.
Here to second the furring strips, and the water problem.
First, get yourself some UVC lights and point them at each wall for a week. Then get sporicide and a cheap.sprayer from HD. After you've sprayed and scrubbed the walls. Put up ferring strips and screw the drywall to it. If it's getting water or the foundation is leaking water, consider sealing the walls first.
I used the sporicide in a fogger for my basement walls and upstairs floor joists. Scrubbed and painted the walls with Drylok. Basement Floor painted with epoxy paint. Previous owner had French drain plus 2nd sump pump well installed. Ran outside gutter down spouts 4ft away from house as they were right next to foundation.
That sounds like it must have worked excellent. How did it turn out?
Worked out well. Made entering the basement more pleasurable and useful. With the addition of better lighting brightened it up. 100% better. Also added a dehumidifier to bring the humidity down to 35-40%.
We did the French drain, sump pump thing. Worked great, used the lamps to kill what was on the walls because we had a lot of stuff down there and didn't want to get anything on them, the lights killed the mold on the walls nicely. We had a floating floor made of OSB, and we got this white wood rot fungus that took root. In a matter of months, it ate its way through the floor like termites. Eventually, we tore it all out and did the epoxy sealer after the sporicide treatment.
Why not just Clorox? Won’t it kill more than just spores? (Or generic bleach)
It won't. It could kill surface mold, but it won't kill spores in the air, and it could cause the mold to release more spores as a defense mechanism. You need to kill it to the roots. Peroxide works on most, but for what's going on, on that wall, you need the big guns. The UVC lamps kill what's on the wall and what's in the air. The sporicide kills it to the roots and coats the surface so it can't grow back.
Don't expose yourself to the UVC lamps for very long, and don't look onto them. They dismantle dna.
c'mon... what's a little skin cancer among friends?
Right? Who needs DNA anyway. Totally overrated.
you still have it, it just looks like a bowl of pasta instead of a helix.
Just a big bowl of meat sauce lol
Thanks, that's useful to know
Whatcha know about moldy car interior...
Oof, what's the surface it's growing on?
Leather/suede and light weight carpet. I had the seats basically scotch guarded but when I our ut in storage it must have had a water bottle freeze and get it wet. I put damp rid in it but I need to clean it too.
Peroxide isn’t the move on leather or suede, it’ll bleach it or dry it out.
For leather, just do a 50/50 mix of white vinegar and distilled water on a microfiber cloth. Wipe it down lightly, dry it right after, then hit it with a leather conditioner. That kills the mold without trashing the material.
For suede or alcantara, use 70 percent isopropyl alcohol on a cloth (don’t spray the seat directly) and dab it. Let it dry and then brush the fibers back up.
Carpet is the only place peroxide is fine, and even then dilute it and extract it after.
Once everything’s clean, run some DampRid and, if you want to fully nuke the smell/spores, do a short ozone treatment and air the car out. You can get small ozone generators on Amazon.
Obviously the delicate materials in a car make it a different situation from the guy dealing with a basement. A car interior usually stays dry and can be aired out easily, so mold won’t keep spreading the way it does in a dark, damp basement behind wet drywall.
I've been trying to find that advice everywhere 🤣 I just found out today my wife might be having our third kid and I kinda gotta sell the 4 seat coupe... Talk about timing. I've never prayed before but I actually asked God to help me support this kid and I got advice on how to sell my sports car. 🤣 What a smart ass.
God is good like that lol
Congratulations on the new baby!
God be with you and your family.
And actually I just bought peroxide to clean it but luckily it's also below freezing so I can't mess with it. I really do appreciate the advice.
XPS 2" foam after you scrub and get rid of the mold . Then drylok.. then furring strips on the foam. Then drywall
Slowly back out of the room...
FIRE. The answer you are looking for is fire. If not, then an insurance claim. That's a major, major water issue.
My advice was to burn it down 🔥🔥🔥🔥
See? FIRE IS THE ANSWER!
Take off and nuke it from orbit
Get rid of all the moisture to start.
Trapping the water in your walls with paint causes the walls to deteriorate and won’t stop mold. Google it.
OP this is the equivalent of painting a house that’s actively on fire.
You have a few steps to go before you’re putting up walls
I don’t think I would drywall that. Think I’d start with about 2 gallons of concrobium in a greenwood sprayer from harbor freight for 16 bucks. Drywall won’t resist the moisture any better than plaster. Plan b would be some other type of covering perhaps pvc? In either case moisture probably won’t be cheap or easy.
Hard to tell what that is mold or whatever, you need to kill it with mold armor. Then just frame up don't try to use nothing to seal it you will make more trouble
I think it's too far for that. This is a gut job
Isn't that concrete
Oh you're right it is! I thought it was super fucked up drywall. Disregard
Ouch what a train wreck by heck
2x4 frame that and get some insulation in there. Deal with the moisture and id switch that window out. Go a size smaller and reframe the window. Better to do it now
Plumbing drain ripping through the rotten window frame would be a good start... that pipe must be lesking from everywhere.
Do you smell what the mould was cooking!?
Excuse me sir, Kilz isn't going to fix this. Gotta figure out the water intrusion issue first, fix that, go from there. In the meantime quarantine that whole ass area until mold remediation can take place.
Killz original might lol
Fix the water issue first.
Make sure it stays dry. Like maybe wait a while. Next major rain or snow melt.
Then start framing, and run any wiring then, placing those metal guards over the wiring to protect it.
Go to YT university to learn drywall. It’s easy but also easy to mess up. Get a few packs of beer and some friends over too.
Bruh. The mold needs to be killed first. They have mold killing primer. I'd probably start with that
I thought this was a picture of a room with a quarry wrap on the walls.
This comment fucking killed me. I'm dead. I thought the exact same thing for half a second
I was like, nice quarry wrap bro. That's tight. (Bubbling water noises)
Get it dry and paint the concrete. Drywall doesn't belong in old basements. Get a dehumidifier too.
Like everybody else on here says deal with the water first. Start on the outside gutters and grading. Maybe a French drain even; if you can drain it to daylight. Then a dehumidifier for like a month. Then if you’re brave, you could use furring strips with closed cell phone in between and drywall on top of that.
Gotta be a troll
What does the drainage look like outside
Moisture barrier (poly or rigid foam), frame up walls or fir it out with PT or Z-bar. Rigid foam between the firring or studs. GWB (purple or green).
Looks like the surface of the moon
Definitely need to fix the water issue first. Ideally, you dig all around the outside of the house down to the footings, put it in perforated big O pipe with gravel and a sump pump inside. If you have no access on the outside, you can break the floor concrete along the perimeter of the walls, put a membrane up that folds over the floor, add crushed stone and big O running into a sump with a sump pump. (Hope I described this properly).
Fix water getting problem. In this order. Setup low cost dehumidifier for basement. Asses function of basement sump if any. Install or repair gutters to move water away from house. Install or repair perimeter drain to move water away from house. Use decent concrete moisture meter to track moisture content in wall. Other than bleach wash or peroxide washing the walls, do not do anything else untill you have had some good rain ir snow melt. Find where the water is getting in, and stop it. Do not put anything on the walls because it will only trap more moisture. If you must use the space and want it to look better, buy or find a recipe for acrylic(not milk) based lime wash. It may help things look less...not good. But anything you add must allow the moisture to get in, so you will know when it has been managed.
Convert it into your kid’s “Moon Landing” themed room, complete with space suits and respirators
file an insurance claim this is hazardous and must be dealt with professionally not a quick fix and it's where your pregnant wife does the laundry!! get that claim in
You better solve your moisture problem first, before you do anything.
So get a public adjuster in there step one. They will handle everything regarding the damages the town caused.