| I have been building and remodeling homes for quite | | | | understand what I'm talking about. If you have any |
| some time now and I have seen mold, mildew and | | | | water damage in an area where water has been |
| fungus in almost every area that you could possibly | | | | leaking for longer than one month, you could have |
| imagine in a house. I've seen it under the floor, on | | | | mold, fungus or mildew growing behind your walls and |
| top of the roof, behind your walls and underneath, | | | | just because it isn't visible, doesn't mean that it's not |
| anything that remained moist from a water leak for a | | | | their. |
| long period of time. | | | | I removed a water heater, one time that had water |
| There are plenty of homeowners that call me to | | | | leaking from one of the flexible pipes that connected |
| repair their water damaged homes and most of the | | | | the water heater, to the main hot water pipe in the |
| time, I can explain the actual damage that isn't visible | | | | home. The water leaked for a long period of time |
| and that it could be hiding behind their walls or even | | | | and I found mold growing behind the drywall, directly |
| underneath their floors. In other words, if they can't | | | | on the wood framing lumber and there was a fungus |
| see it, they don't want to spend any more money, | | | | growing underneath the plywood water heater |
| replacing sections of their home that aren't visibly | | | | platform that I had never seen before. |
| damaged. | | | | Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean that it |
| Here's a tip for any homeowner that doesn't | | | | isn't there. |