Hi all
An inexperienced person posting here.
A few months ago whilst refurbishing our house, we plastered our internal ‘yard’ and also removed the tiles. In between removing the tiles and laying the new ones (which took a few weeks), it rained quite a lot and the gravel where the screed once stood became really wet (what we use in my country isn’t a hard concrete screed finish under the tiles, but very small stones and fine grains similar to sand with small pebbles – I don’t know the technical term). We then laid the new tiles a few weeks later.
What happened, as expected, is that mould as you can see in the picture is now present in the walls, probably rising from the water beneath which may have seeped in the wall.
My question is should I remove the plaster up to the level where the wall is black, wait for it to dry, and then replaster? Or should I leave it as it is and then repaint in the future? If I touch the black parts I get black colour on my hands.
Thanks a lot for your help!
An inexperienced person posting here.
A few months ago whilst refurbishing our house, we plastered our internal ‘yard’ and also removed the tiles. In between removing the tiles and laying the new ones (which took a few weeks), it rained quite a lot and the gravel where the screed once stood became really wet (what we use in my country isn’t a hard concrete screed finish under the tiles, but very small stones and fine grains similar to sand with small pebbles – I don’t know the technical term). We then laid the new tiles a few weeks later.
What happened, as expected, is that mould as you can see in the picture is now present in the walls, probably rising from the water beneath which may have seeped in the wall.
My question is should I remove the plaster up to the level where the wall is black, wait for it to dry, and then replaster? Or should I leave it as it is and then repaint in the future? If I touch the black parts I get black colour on my hands.
Thanks a lot for your help!
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