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What is this and why does it keep happening?

I've had my water tested by the city, it all came back fine. Is it something in the air? Is there some type of test I can do? I am renting this apartment.

This happens in all three of my toilets, upstairs or downstairs, after sitting stagnant for a week or so. This happens regardless of how much use the toilet sees and happens even when it's been freshly cleaned.

I also had a similar weird thing happen with a watering can, and I've noticed films growing in glasses of water I leave sitting out for too long too. Watering can is the most extreme case, otherwise I only usually notice this in the toilets. Occasionally the cat's water bowl but I'm usually changing that often enough to avoid it.

imgur link shows toilet AND watering can

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u/Mundane-Weather-3301 — 9 days ago

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Unused suede shoes mold infested, help

Kindly help me, lf advice on how can I clean this without damaging the shoes 😢

u/ThinkString6529 — 5 days ago

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Is this mold behind vinyl baseboard in bathroom?

I am in an apartment in which the bathroom has no window, fan or vent. I peeled back some vinyl baseboard during preparing for a repaint and noticed these black spots behind it. I am assuming this is mold?

Is it my landlord's responsibility to clean this? How intense should the cleanup of this be? I actually peeled back a smaller segment a few weeks ago and he just wiped it down with a rag and said it was fine...

u/HibikiRush — 8 days ago

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What is this..? Mold? Dust? Read description

Just came across this in ceiling of my spare bathroom. (No shower just a toilet) has these greyish specks on the ceiling. US-PA.

The weird thing is I can literally wipe them away with a dry papertowel and they disappear. Do you think it’s mold? Dust? Spider tracks? What the heck is it..? No signs of water damage either. Really weird

u/Vegetable_Sample5767 — 9 days ago

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Does anyone have an idea of what I’m looking at here? Or is testing the only way to know?

Sorry if this is an amateur question but it’s my first time dealing with this, having some health issues (respiratory mainly, possibly psychological but hard to tell there) and started eventually looking around the house to find this in my crawlspace. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. 🙏🏼

US-MO

Remediation efforts have included spraying with 2 gallons of concrobium while wearing a hazmat suit and p100 full 3M face mask

u/Slow_Grow — 12 days ago

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Is This Mold?

Potential apartment for rent. It’s perfect in every other way, but it is a dealbreaker if this is mold on the floor.

It’s on the 5th floor of a high rise apartment.

u/BlazingPandaBear — 12 days ago

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What is this thing growing out of my wall?

It looks like some sort of fungus/ mushroom thing. I made the dumb idea of touching it and it had a moldy damp, almost slimy mushroom-like texture.

I just noticed it today and it looks like it’s growing pretty fast.

For info, there does look like there could me some mold/ mildew spot growing in our ceiling (abt the size of my hand) on the other end of our apt (also pictured, and also unsure of what it is). But that has been there well before this thing started growing.

u/Nthomas212 — 10 days ago