Black Mold

Mandie asked:


I live in an old house (probably built around 1940) located in Connecticut. Older homes like mine usually have layers of wallpaper sealed on every inch of the house. It has been raining heavily during this summer and the rain is leaking through my window. The water gets between the wallpaper and the wall causing the wallpaper to peel. I teared off some wallpaper a few weeks ago and found this black fuzzy mold that is kind of chalky. It rained today and I teared off some more wallpaper and it looks like this mold or mildew is growing up my wall. Does anyone know what this is and should I be worried?

ange1s_secret asked:


We have been living at our current residents for almost 4 yrs now and have been dealing with a water leak for most of the time. Recently we had a lot of rain and it became worse. We have tried for yrs to get someone out here but they never inspected just blew us off. There is some old patch work in out dining room were the leak comes from so we decided to investigate for mold. When will removed the patch there was a large amount of black mold and we still can’t get anyone out to even look at it! We called the health department but they said there was no regulations they had for that but would come out to investigate the leak. I have been blocked at every turn it seems and I want to get my family out of here! What can I do?