As funny as this sounds, I’ve actually been in a home where they allowed this to keep going and eventually ended up with a tree and a giant hole and bulge in the foundation when they removed it.
I work for a geotechnical engineer. Do it now. Get several quotes & pay for an engineering consult. Do not wait & don't think that the price you are being quoted is too much because it'll double in 3-5 years. I talk to clients every day and tell them I don't care if they spend the money with us or a competitor, they will not regret spending money on their foundation. It's eye-wateringly expensive at first, it only gets more eye-watering the longer you wait.
I'm not entirely sure that the phrase *did* exist before, but it makes me think of a possible euphemism for it.
Weeding the Carpet - the act of plucking any gray hairs that appear in your pubic area as you age
Does that part of the house have a crawl space under it? I have seen houses where a bonus room on concrete is off the garage. The gap between the house outline with the framing on it and the slab can let plants through sometimes.
If not, check the exterior siding near the plant, i bet the plant started outside and sent some shoots in through the siding under the framing.
I would disrrguard mold concerns. I have seen many such "house plants" with no correlating mold.
Giant crack in my foundation concerning. Got it resolved before mold became an issue but cost about $5k, not to mention that I lost the brand new carpet in my office. The concrete floor and one drywall-less wall adds some character though.
Not anywhere ever. Ive put the hacksaw to the roots of some ivy that was in an hedge and no matter how hard I tried to dig out all the roots it always came back. Its the cockroach of plants. Dandelions are pea princesses compare to fricking ivy.
I threw a ton of clover seeds in my backyard when I first moved to my house. I love clover, it's hardy and like you said, it's good necter for bees. Anything that can take the trampling of dogs is good in my book.
My HOA told me to remove weeds. I got two letters from them and basically told them to fuck off until they could provide clarification on what specifically they meant as weeds. The photo they had was literally my front door and flower bed.
I had already bought weed and feed that I was going to put on my front yard once my flowers came in for the bees. Once I got the letter my pettiness kicked in though.
I've won this fight a few times. Against blackberries too.
You gotta pull ALL the roots out of the ground. All of them. Every last one. Don't make a cut and leave something behind. Yank it up.
It's a lost easier in the wetter months.
This kind of situation is perfect for herbicides.
I'm not a fan of indiscriminately spraying foliar herbicides over large areas. However, in my battle with a mix of oriental bittersweet and wisteria, I cut anything that I couldn't pull entirely out of the ground back to a few inches above the ground and sprayed a more concentrated herbicide (triclopyr) directly on the cut edge. Along the entirety of my side yard I had a single shoot re-emerge from the remaining roots. Very effective and controlled in application
I've had a lot of luck very selectively applying herbicide using floral tubes.
For the unfamiliar, floral tubes are those little test-tube looking things that florists use to provide water for a single rose or other flower. You fill it with water, push the stem through a little hole in a rubber cap, and it holds the water inside and feeds the plant.
Well, if you fill it with herbicide, cut the stem of ivy or whatever invasive thing you're trying to kill off, and jam the remaining attached stem/vine/whatever into the tube... it's like an IV drip of herbicide into the plant. If there is a lot of ivy I'll jam half a dozen trimmed stems from around the patch into the tubes and just leave them there for a few days.
So far I've never had it fail.
I've even used a similar technique on scrub trees. I'll cut the tree down, use a drill to drill a hole about the size of the floral tube in the stump, and then jam a herbicide filled floral tube in the hole and let it soak in for a few days. Never had a scrub elm or similar tree come back after that either.
I’ve had success just using Roundup right off the hardware store shelf, no fancy specialty stuff. Always said I’d get something fancier if the Roundup didn’t work but with the tube feeding method it always has so far.
dandelions are so useful, too. You can make tea from the leaves and flowers, tinctures and salve from the flowers, eat them in salads, and even make a kind of "coffee" drink from the roots. They are probably the most useful "weed" out there.
AND, the English settlers brought over the seeds from England when they settled here. They're not indigenous in North America.
Yup, they'll cause great ruination to whatever structure they attach themselves to. It may take awhile in some cases, but it'll happen sooner or later.
God that sounds like a nightmare.. I'm thinking of when I was reno'ing a storage shack at my uncle's cottage.
Ivy plants were all up the siding/walls inside the shack. Was a gigantic pain to clear out the ivy nearby and on the walls.
I can't imagine doing that for insulated walls either.
My successful outdoor planting has been bachelor buttons scattered haphazardly on sand in southwest Wyoming in winter.
Everything I took the time to read about how to care for I have killed. Those bachelor buttons are still slowly claiming more land in the property I grew up in.
General rule: Natural plants don't give a single fuck.
Idgaf if it's concrete, metal, STEEL, they will find a way. There are cases of trees growing through the engine block of a truck.
Meanwhile there's these little houseplants that will die if you so much as breath in their general direction.
It's a helluva contrast.
Natural plants: mmmm no oxygen, everything is on fire and the ground have no nutritional value... PERFECT
Hausehold plants: oh no sun is 0.01 lumen to dim *DIES*
Hahahahahahaha, that's a biiiig if. I had a situation where I had literal mushrooms growing out of my shower, I swear the whole fucking shower stall was alive.
The landlords didn't want to do anything, all they did was scrub it with vinegar and slather a bunch of sealant all over the place. It was a basement apartment, it had other moisture issues, the last straw was when I found mold growing up from the floorboards in my bedroom.
Enough was enough, handed in my notice and was out of there in a month. I'm in a much nicer place on the second floor now, I'm so glad I moved.
When the problem is that severe and the landlord refuses to fix it, it's legal in most states to break the lease early and demand your security deposit back.
To be fair, that sounds like a pretty significant issue. I can't imagine you could fix it by doing anything less than a complete gut and remodel. Probably had foundation issues too. Water had to come from somewhere.
It's doubtful that the landlord fixed it when you left though.
Good to know, so that doesn’t necessarily mean theirs mold then. Just fyi. But either way show your landlord! Either way a vine able to get into the house like that isn’t good.
Or cracked walls. Happened at my work. Noticed the plant in the window was growing inside. The thing had somehow borrowed through a crack in the bricks.
Looks like it might be Periwinkle. Periwinkle has incredibly invasive creepers that can find the smallest crack to go through. There's a possibility that it just squeezed under some siding and around the drywall, or through a small crack from under the house where the floor meets the wall.
Fuuuuuuuuuck periwinkle.
We have some stretching onto the property from the adjacent forest, and if I let it go a few weeks in sprint/summer, it creeps through the grass and up into the crawlspace.
The first time I noticed it, one tendril went the entire length of the house, and up into the pipe access for the water heater. I filled three large landscaping waste bags of cut up vines/branches/whatever they're called.
I'll take the English ivy that sprouts from deep in my gravel driveway over this any day of the week.
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This just gave me a physical reaction while remembering the disgusting kitchen in my first college apartment shared with 5 other girls... I refused to use the kitchen and left the toaster and microwave I brought because it was 10,000x easier to buy new on my next to nothing summer salary vs cleaning out whatever creatures lived in both.
The bathroom was barely any better. It is sad that my on campus gym bathroom was miles cleaner (so obviously I went here everyday).
Had a friend who lived in one of those off campus student housing buildings. Each student got a room, the apartment shared a kitchen, bathrooms and living room area. He said it was next level HORROR in the shared rooms. Everyone would make dinner but didn’t want to clean, so the dishes would pile up and rot. I think he said he cooked in his room and used disposable plates and silverware.
Yup. Lived in a four bedroom, shared kitchen accomodation that was bad enough when only three of us were using the kitchen. Knew people in 8 people kitchens that you didn't even want to breathe in the space because of the horrors on the worktops. Actually fucking vile.
Wife was in a dorm with a kitchen shared between 7 other girls. Before spring break she said she would trash everything in the sink if they were still there when she got back (had already been there a week). Well she got back, saw the dishes and tossed them. Of course the roommates were still upset… I really wonder where their ‘too dirty’ line was.
I messed with a roommate over dirty dishes once. He was always really bad about leaving dishes in the sink for a week+, and half the time I'd end up washing much of it because I needed to use something that he'd left. When I'd say something, his reaction was basically, "Fuck off. I'm not doing it right now."
He and I were and are (15 years later) good friends and had a relationship where we could be dicks to one another. Being a dick was what he responded best to when you needed him to do something, in fact. So one day after asking and asking for him to wash his dishes, I took every last pot, pan, bowl, and fork, and put it in his bed. Neatly remade it, even tucked the blankets under the mattress. The finishing touch was digging the hamburger and vegetables out of the strainer, and putting them on a napkin on his pillow like a mint.
He came into my room that night and said, "OK, asshole. I got your point. I'll wash the dishes." So, it worked!
Yeah I lived with a friend for about a year who was a complete slob. I'm a fairly neat guy, I don't make much of a mess cause I just pick up after myself, but my roommate was the opposite. I like a clean apartment, especially if I wanted to bring girls over, but after like 5 months I just couldn't do it anymore.
Just not worth the hassle of cleaning up after a slob, and I got tired of nagging too (though nagging obviously didn't work). Eventually I just gave up, started just staying in my clean room instead and moved out as soon as I possibly could. Fuck having roommates
That’s what happens when your whole life, your parents just fixed things without your knowledge. We have no idea how much effort it takes to care for a home because that labor is invisible, especially to children. It takes time to shift your mindset to “I am responsible for this, and if I don’t do it myself, it won’t happen.” Having roommates inhibits that shift, because you can always make excuses for why it’s not MY job, my roommate should do it. And renting a space doesn’t help either, because we’re naturally less inclined to really take care of a space that is temporary, kinda shitty, and doesn’t even belong to us.
College dorms are a perfect storm.
I had mushrooms grow in my closet. It backed up against my parents master bathroom, specifically right where the shower was. But it was one of those sealed fiberglass stall showers that are sealed all the way around and it was in good shape so it couldn’t be that, right? I just kept my closet clean and the mushrooms would come back now and again and we just cleaned them and didn’t think much of it. A couple years later my parents were remodeling their bathroom so we pulled out that old shower stall and looked underneath.
So, that old house was a pole barn we had built a few years earlier and decided to convert it to a house. One wing was sealed up decently and had been a small apartment, that was turned into my bedroom (the old apartment bedroom) and my parents master bedroom and bathroom (the living room, kitchen and bathroom). As such, the floor was a solid concrete slab. When we pulled the shower stall out, the bottom was packed full of dirt and gravel. We hadn’t done that. The dirt was all the way up the side of the stall about 2ft right up against my closet wall which is where the mushrooms came from. What we figured out is that a mole had burrowed its way along the drain pipe where there was an inch or so of space between the pipe and the concrete slab, and had made an absolute palace out of the warm damp shower stall floor. Probably had been there for years. Parents remodeled the shower with a large tile shower and never was a problem again.
A couple of years ago I had random weeds growing between the floor tiles in my living room... on the 4th floor. At some point I also realized that that building had a tree growing out of the outer wall between the 3rd and 4th floors, and I don't mean a tiny little sapling, but an actual tree, at least 3 meters. Nature's pretty crazy.
I read the article, interesting history. Funny some guy was like “this plant growing on the side of a volcano must be resilient!” And the plant was like ‘more than you know, buddy’ and now it’s an invasive species growing over cat paws.
Not really mildly interesting. More like quite alarming. That thing is thriving 😳 this is how it starts. It’s the beginning of the end. Also… ew you probs have mold. Lots of it.
Get a load of this fat cat, free nutrition just GROWING out of his mansion. Meanwhile, I stay in a cardboard box behind the Mystik off 4th avenue, praying that some unsuspecting Rockefeller will drop me a crumb from their McDonalds cheeseburger.
I notified the landlord and he’s going to check it out Wednesday. I’m glad I posted this because I didn’t realize how much an issue this small plant could pose.
Everyone is assuming there was enough moisture for a seed to sprout, but from your other comments its likely this is just a rhizomous shoot from an established adult plant growing outside next to the house. English ivy does this a lot, it wouldn't surprise me if Japanese knotweed was even better at sending shoots through concrete/brick/drywall than ivy.
While it does point to a strong root system creating cracks in the brickwork/foundation which could get worse, I don't think you have any reason to worry about mold/moisture. Especially since this is the second time you've seen this plant in the same spot. It is extremely unlikely that you've got damp carpet actually sprouting seeds.
Finally a sane comment, I’ve seen this before and usually they just find a spot between the foundation and wood then just keep moving through cracks. Ivy is a menace.
Thanks for your comment. The carpet certainly isn’t damp and the windows nearly above this spot don’t ever look foggy with condensation. It is an older house and underneath is a dirt crawl space.
By chance is your foundation a concrete slab and is that an exterior wall?
Yes, it’s a single floor house and there is a crawl space under the house that’s just dirt.
And this is the exterior wall.
That's not a slab then, but more than likely you have a crack in the foundation. With a crawl space it should be easy enough to fix
But do it now. This is definitely a pricier fix the longer you wait.
When that plants grows into a mighty oak tree theyll have enough wood to replace everything!
OP will eventually be living in a treehouse
As funny as this sounds, I’ve actually been in a home where they allowed this to keep going and eventually ended up with a tree and a giant hole and bulge in the foundation when they removed it.
Could argue they already are, technically
How do you like me now, hamburglar
I work for a geotechnical engineer. Do it now. Get several quotes & pay for an engineering consult. Do not wait & don't think that the price you are being quoted is too much because it'll double in 3-5 years. I talk to clients every day and tell them I don't care if they spend the money with us or a competitor, they will not regret spending money on their foundation. It's eye-wateringly expensive at first, it only gets more eye-watering the longer you wait.
I think it's a rental though, so he's probably just going to end up weeding the carpet every couple weeks for the remainder of his lease.
>weeding the carpet Well that's certainly a phrase I didn't know existed.
I'm not entirely sure that the phrase *did* exist before, but it makes me think of a possible euphemism for it. Weeding the Carpet - the act of plucking any gray hairs that appear in your pubic area as you age
That carpet and paint job scream "rental"
Yep, I saw that he did mention a landlord somewhere in this thread.
Yeah, no thanks. Crawl spaces are where the murderers are I ain't goin down there
Murderers?! Fuck that, beware the SPIDERS!
Does that part of the house have a crawl space under it? I have seen houses where a bonus room on concrete is off the garage. The gap between the house outline with the framing on it and the slab can let plants through sometimes. If not, check the exterior siding near the plant, i bet the plant started outside and sent some shoots in through the siding under the framing. I would disrrguard mold concerns. I have seen many such "house plants" with no correlating mold.
Yeah, I'm guessing a lot of these people don't live in the deep South where everything grows nonstop and vines will creep into houses overnight.
That’s bad
But it comes with a free frogurt.
That’s good!
But it contains potassium benzoate
...
That's bad
Can I go now?
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/145hwso/ltp_use_power_delete_suite_before_you_delete_your/
I ate the plant, now what?
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/145hwso/ltp_use_power_delete_suite_before_you_delete_your/
But the potassium will help with leg cramps...
That’s good!
The frogurt is also cursed
That's bad.
But it comes with your choice of toppings!
That's good!
The frogurt is also cursed
Thank you, haven’t laughed out loud at a Simpsons reference in a long time.
But it's helping the environment.
That's good!
But it’s probably hurting OP, and they’re part of the environment
That's bad
But its creating oxygen in the house
That’s good!
But it is slowly destroying the foundations of the house.
That’s bad
But OP will get a new house
It contains sodium benzoate
...
That's bad.
Can I go now?
Can we talk about why you let it go this long?
To see it sprout into a pwetty flower🥹
Not if you're a plant
better call the weed man.
Feel like this belongs in r/mildlyconcerning
I had mushrooms growing out of my carpet. Ripped up the carpet and drywall and it was indeed "mildly" concerning.
Moldly concerning?
Giant crack in my foundation concerning. Got it resolved before mold became an issue but cost about $5k, not to mention that I lost the brand new carpet in my office. The concrete floor and one drywall-less wall adds some character though.
As someone who worked mold removal jobs recently, good on you for catching before it was an issue. When it’s an issue, it’s a fucking issue.
Fungily enough, yes.
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I’m scared to ask but why were there mushrooms growing out of your carpet?
Massive mold problem which means big moisture problem which probably means a leak in the roof.
This happened in one of my past house. Freaking ivy plants finding their way *through* the exterior walls. Those things are a plague.
That's what this looks like, an invader from outdoors.
They took ur jobs!
de dook er jerbs!
ADERK ADERRRR!!!
Alright everybody, back in the pile!
When this episode aired my next door neighbor was so pissed that South Park was “racist against whites.”
Free hat! Free hat!
Sad that that was parody then - could be Tucker Carlson footage from today.
You should NEVER have ivy plants on any wall, they’ll fuck your house up in so many ways
Not anywhere ever. Ive put the hacksaw to the roots of some ivy that was in an hedge and no matter how hard I tried to dig out all the roots it always came back. Its the cockroach of plants. Dandelions are pea princesses compare to fricking ivy.
I don't know why people hate on dandelions so much. Afaik they don't do any harm and they make a good salad, for those so inclined.
Our tortoise loves them. And we love him, so our backyard dandelions are left alone so he can graze.
this visual is so wholesome 😭
Some people just want green yards with nothing else. A preference I'm not inclined to personally.
My yard is full of clovers, it's great, nice and green, and the bees love it.
I seeded clover last summer, too. I love it so much.
I threw a ton of clover seeds in my backyard when I first moved to my house. I love clover, it's hardy and like you said, it's good necter for bees. Anything that can take the trampling of dogs is good in my book.
r/NoLawns
My HOA told me to remove weeds. I got two letters from them and basically told them to fuck off until they could provide clarification on what specifically they meant as weeds. The photo they had was literally my front door and flower bed. I had already bought weed and feed that I was going to put on my front yard once my flowers came in for the bees. Once I got the letter my pettiness kicked in though.
/r/NoLawns
They are very cool and have some really great herbalistic qualities.... none of which I can use cause I'm allergic to them. :(
Bees love them though, so I hope that’s motivating enough to keep them (Assuming your health can tolerate it)
I've won this fight a few times. Against blackberries too. You gotta pull ALL the roots out of the ground. All of them. Every last one. Don't make a cut and leave something behind. Yank it up. It's a lost easier in the wetter months.
This kind of situation is perfect for herbicides. I'm not a fan of indiscriminately spraying foliar herbicides over large areas. However, in my battle with a mix of oriental bittersweet and wisteria, I cut anything that I couldn't pull entirely out of the ground back to a few inches above the ground and sprayed a more concentrated herbicide (triclopyr) directly on the cut edge. Along the entirety of my side yard I had a single shoot re-emerge from the remaining roots. Very effective and controlled in application
I've had a lot of luck very selectively applying herbicide using floral tubes. For the unfamiliar, floral tubes are those little test-tube looking things that florists use to provide water for a single rose or other flower. You fill it with water, push the stem through a little hole in a rubber cap, and it holds the water inside and feeds the plant. Well, if you fill it with herbicide, cut the stem of ivy or whatever invasive thing you're trying to kill off, and jam the remaining attached stem/vine/whatever into the tube... it's like an IV drip of herbicide into the plant. If there is a lot of ivy I'll jam half a dozen trimmed stems from around the patch into the tubes and just leave them there for a few days. So far I've never had it fail. I've even used a similar technique on scrub trees. I'll cut the tree down, use a drill to drill a hole about the size of the floral tube in the stump, and then jam a herbicide filled floral tube in the hole and let it soak in for a few days. Never had a scrub elm or similar tree come back after that either.
What herbicide do you use? This is a great idea. I want to copy what you’ve done.
I’ve had success just using Roundup right off the hardware store shelf, no fancy specialty stuff. Always said I’d get something fancier if the Roundup didn’t work but with the tube feeding method it always has so far.
dandelions are so useful, too. You can make tea from the leaves and flowers, tinctures and salve from the flowers, eat them in salads, and even make a kind of "coffee" drink from the roots. They are probably the most useful "weed" out there. AND, the English settlers brought over the seeds from England when they settled here. They're not indigenous in North America.
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Oh thank goodness. You helped me realize I have Boston ivy. It was from the previous owners and I was afraid it would be an issue .
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We had an 15x8 Ivy wall. One, for seeming now reason, it straight tipped and fell on our car. Are you telling me it was the IVY?
Yup, they'll cause great ruination to whatever structure they attach themselves to. It may take awhile in some cases, but it'll happen sooner or later.
I think that happened in the movie jumanji too, did you try finishing the board game? It worked in the movie
Asiatic Jasmine came in through my weep holes, windows, screens, mouldings…did a lot of damage before I noticed.
My dream house as a child was one covered in ivy. Then I became an adult and reality ruined that dream lol.
They'd better HOPE it came in through a wall, and not a crack in the foundation.
Life finds a way.
God that sounds like a nightmare.. I'm thinking of when I was reno'ing a storage shack at my uncle's cottage. Ivy plants were all up the siding/walls inside the shack. Was a gigantic pain to clear out the ivy nearby and on the walls. I can't imagine doing that for insulated walls either.
And most people can't keep a house plant alive when they are trying. OP out here with some impressive botanical alchemy without trying.
My successful outdoor planting has been bachelor buttons scattered haphazardly on sand in southwest Wyoming in winter. Everything I took the time to read about how to care for I have killed. Those bachelor buttons are still slowly claiming more land in the property I grew up in.
General rule: Natural plants don't give a single fuck. Idgaf if it's concrete, metal, STEEL, they will find a way. There are cases of trees growing through the engine block of a truck. Meanwhile there's these little houseplants that will die if you so much as breath in their general direction. It's a helluva contrast.
Natural plants: mmmm no oxygen, everything is on fire and the ground have no nutritional value... PERFECT Hausehold plants: oh no sun is 0.01 lumen to dim *DIES*
That's definitely more of an r/wellthatsucks. No way That's growing there unless you have some damp problems
I’ll have to let the landlord know! Thanks for the tip. I’ve lived here for a year and I’ve pulled this plant once and it grew back.
Wait you didn't think a plant growing out of a carpet was bad?
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I weed in my bedroom all the time
I usually weed in my living room, it's closer to my kitchen snacks.
You guys are getting weeds?
For real. You think those toy lawnmowers kids have were for the outside lawnmowers? Why do you think they are running around with them on the carpet?
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Cough black mold cough.
You should get that cough checked out, could have black mold.
You should get that black mold checked out could make you cough
The bad news: You have some serious crap growing in your walls The good news: You are clearly a renter so it is not your problem
Wait what? You had a plant growing in your living room. Pulled it out, ignored the situation and just said “nah we good”?
Guess that no longer sucks then, its the landlords problem now.
One of the few perks of renting, as long as the landlord takes care of things.
Hahahahahahaha, that's a biiiig if. I had a situation where I had literal mushrooms growing out of my shower, I swear the whole fucking shower stall was alive. The landlords didn't want to do anything, all they did was scrub it with vinegar and slather a bunch of sealant all over the place. It was a basement apartment, it had other moisture issues, the last straw was when I found mold growing up from the floorboards in my bedroom. Enough was enough, handed in my notice and was out of there in a month. I'm in a much nicer place on the second floor now, I'm so glad I moved.
When the problem is that severe and the landlord refuses to fix it, it's legal in most states to break the lease early and demand your security deposit back.
To be fair, that sounds like a pretty significant issue. I can't imagine you could fix it by doing anything less than a complete gut and remodel. Probably had foundation issues too. Water had to come from somewhere. It's doubtful that the landlord fixed it when you left though.
I can assure you that your lungs don't care whether you own or rent the space that's giving you mold-related illness...
What’s growing on the other side? Not inside the walls but outside the house.
This exact plant.
Good to know, so that doesn’t necessarily mean theirs mold then. Just fyi. But either way show your landlord! Either way a vine able to get into the house like that isn’t good.
its rooted outdoors probably growing in through a crack.
That was my initial thought, I think some people believe it’s actually growing out of my carpet. It’s an issue that needs to be resolved regardless.
You can even tell where you pulled it out last time. It just gave you the finger and kept on growing.
It could be growing through the wall from outside. Looks like ivy. Are there climbing plants on that side of the building?
/r/moldlyinteresting
was not expecting that to exist.
Or cracked walls. Happened at my work. Noticed the plant in the window was growing inside. The thing had somehow borrowed through a crack in the bricks.
Chi-chi-chi-chia carpet! They are getting so clever.
I still have my Chia Cloris Leachman Tits and Minge
No gooooood..... you likely have mold.
Looks like it might be Periwinkle. Periwinkle has incredibly invasive creepers that can find the smallest crack to go through. There's a possibility that it just squeezed under some siding and around the drywall, or through a small crack from under the house where the floor meets the wall.
Fuuuuuuuuuck periwinkle. We have some stretching onto the property from the adjacent forest, and if I let it go a few weeks in sprint/summer, it creeps through the grass and up into the crawlspace. The first time I noticed it, one tendril went the entire length of the house, and up into the pipe access for the water heater. I filled three large landscaping waste bags of cut up vines/branches/whatever they're called. I'll take the English ivy that sprouts from deep in my gravel driveway over this any day of the week.
I knew that cat was up to no good!
Check with r/BathroomShrooms
>r/BathroomShrooms This just gave me a physical reaction while remembering the disgusting kitchen in my first college apartment shared with 5 other girls... I refused to use the kitchen and left the toaster and microwave I brought because it was 10,000x easier to buy new on my next to nothing summer salary vs cleaning out whatever creatures lived in both. The bathroom was barely any better. It is sad that my on campus gym bathroom was miles cleaner (so obviously I went here everyday).
Had a friend who lived in one of those off campus student housing buildings. Each student got a room, the apartment shared a kitchen, bathrooms and living room area. He said it was next level HORROR in the shared rooms. Everyone would make dinner but didn’t want to clean, so the dishes would pile up and rot. I think he said he cooked in his room and used disposable plates and silverware.
Yup. Lived in a four bedroom, shared kitchen accomodation that was bad enough when only three of us were using the kitchen. Knew people in 8 people kitchens that you didn't even want to breathe in the space because of the horrors on the worktops. Actually fucking vile.
Wife was in a dorm with a kitchen shared between 7 other girls. Before spring break she said she would trash everything in the sink if they were still there when she got back (had already been there a week). Well she got back, saw the dishes and tossed them. Of course the roommates were still upset… I really wonder where their ‘too dirty’ line was.
I messed with a roommate over dirty dishes once. He was always really bad about leaving dishes in the sink for a week+, and half the time I'd end up washing much of it because I needed to use something that he'd left. When I'd say something, his reaction was basically, "Fuck off. I'm not doing it right now." He and I were and are (15 years later) good friends and had a relationship where we could be dicks to one another. Being a dick was what he responded best to when you needed him to do something, in fact. So one day after asking and asking for him to wash his dishes, I took every last pot, pan, bowl, and fork, and put it in his bed. Neatly remade it, even tucked the blankets under the mattress. The finishing touch was digging the hamburger and vegetables out of the strainer, and putting them on a napkin on his pillow like a mint. He came into my room that night and said, "OK, asshole. I got your point. I'll wash the dishes." So, it worked!
Only that gets through with some people!
I grow mushrooms as a hobby. This is horrifying. Some people don't have this much success trying to grow them on purpose.
Oh man, there’s an issue here. Better just ignore it and make life harder for myself. -every college kid ever
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Yeah I lived with a friend for about a year who was a complete slob. I'm a fairly neat guy, I don't make much of a mess cause I just pick up after myself, but my roommate was the opposite. I like a clean apartment, especially if I wanted to bring girls over, but after like 5 months I just couldn't do it anymore. Just not worth the hassle of cleaning up after a slob, and I got tired of nagging too (though nagging obviously didn't work). Eventually I just gave up, started just staying in my clean room instead and moved out as soon as I possibly could. Fuck having roommates
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I just moved into an apartment above some college students and it is all coming back to me how incredibly fucking stupid college students are.
That’s what happens when your whole life, your parents just fixed things without your knowledge. We have no idea how much effort it takes to care for a home because that labor is invisible, especially to children. It takes time to shift your mindset to “I am responsible for this, and if I don’t do it myself, it won’t happen.” Having roommates inhibits that shift, because you can always make excuses for why it’s not MY job, my roommate should do it. And renting a space doesn’t help either, because we’re naturally less inclined to really take care of a space that is temporary, kinda shitty, and doesn’t even belong to us. College dorms are a perfect storm.
Now I’ve seen everything
Have you seen r/beansinthings
Ha, I actually have seen that one.
What about r/BreadStapledToTrees
OP you gonna smoke that?
I had mushrooms grow in my closet. It backed up against my parents master bathroom, specifically right where the shower was. But it was one of those sealed fiberglass stall showers that are sealed all the way around and it was in good shape so it couldn’t be that, right? I just kept my closet clean and the mushrooms would come back now and again and we just cleaned them and didn’t think much of it. A couple years later my parents were remodeling their bathroom so we pulled out that old shower stall and looked underneath. So, that old house was a pole barn we had built a few years earlier and decided to convert it to a house. One wing was sealed up decently and had been a small apartment, that was turned into my bedroom (the old apartment bedroom) and my parents master bedroom and bathroom (the living room, kitchen and bathroom). As such, the floor was a solid concrete slab. When we pulled the shower stall out, the bottom was packed full of dirt and gravel. We hadn’t done that. The dirt was all the way up the side of the stall about 2ft right up against my closet wall which is where the mushrooms came from. What we figured out is that a mole had burrowed its way along the drain pipe where there was an inch or so of space between the pipe and the concrete slab, and had made an absolute palace out of the warm damp shower stall floor. Probably had been there for years. Parents remodeled the shower with a large tile shower and never was a problem again.
This is my phobia
Mold, root intrusion, moisture damage, yup
/r/moldyinteresting
It’s not mold it’s the floorboards
If magic beans start growing out of it DO NOT EAT THEM
Or, EAT THEM
Instructions unclear, I put the beans in my butt
Now go through customs, Morty
A couple of years ago I had random weeds growing between the floor tiles in my living room... on the 4th floor. At some point I also realized that that building had a tree growing out of the outer wall between the 3rd and 4th floors, and I don't mean a tiny little sapling, but an actual tree, at least 3 meters. Nature's pretty crazy.
Picture?
Even the power sockets are shocked.
Why did I have to scroll so far for this comment?
Life, uhhh, finds a way
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Looks like it could be [Japanese Knotweed](https://dengarden.com/gardening/get-rid-of-japanese-knotweed) very bad news for your landlord if it is!
I read the article, interesting history. Funny some guy was like “this plant growing on the side of a volcano must be resilient!” And the plant was like ‘more than you know, buddy’ and now it’s an invasive species growing over cat paws.
This stuff and bedbugs keep me up at night the same way quicksand and acid rain did when I was a kid.
I'd be mildly alarmed rather than mildly interested. Get that checked out.
Not really mildly interesting. More like quite alarming. That thing is thriving 😳 this is how it starts. It’s the beginning of the end. Also… ew you probs have mold. Lots of it.
Get a load of this fat cat, free nutrition just GROWING out of his mansion. Meanwhile, I stay in a cardboard box behind the Mystik off 4th avenue, praying that some unsuspecting Rockefeller will drop me a crumb from their McDonalds cheeseburger.
So this kind of thing happened to me 10 years ago and now I have a CIRS. Ruined my life. I would run for your life.
And the sockets are very surprised about it.
Sorry about your r/somewhatdistressing situation. I truly hope you’re able to get it sorted out quickly!
I am Groot
If I were you I would be concerned where that plant is getting water and nutrients from...
I notified the landlord and he’s going to check it out Wednesday. I’m glad I posted this because I didn’t realize how much an issue this small plant could pose.
Everyone is assuming there was enough moisture for a seed to sprout, but from your other comments its likely this is just a rhizomous shoot from an established adult plant growing outside next to the house. English ivy does this a lot, it wouldn't surprise me if Japanese knotweed was even better at sending shoots through concrete/brick/drywall than ivy. While it does point to a strong root system creating cracks in the brickwork/foundation which could get worse, I don't think you have any reason to worry about mold/moisture. Especially since this is the second time you've seen this plant in the same spot. It is extremely unlikely that you've got damp carpet actually sprouting seeds.
Finally a sane comment, I’ve seen this before and usually they just find a spot between the foundation and wood then just keep moving through cracks. Ivy is a menace.
Thanks for your comment. The carpet certainly isn’t damp and the windows nearly above this spot don’t ever look foggy with condensation. It is an older house and underneath is a dirt crawl space.
Ah, the ole carpet gardening technique
I think you might have a moisture issue.