For a week now i'm re-caulking a ~5-10 mm 1/2" thick 6-12" long space between the bathroom wall and floor next to the bedroom using GE Silicone II of about $6.50 a tube. One day a redo a portion the next day it hardens just fine and 2 days later becomes soft like the 1.25 dollar cheap one made of milled limestone and an adhesive. Two days ago i completely removed all the material and put a new one. Yesterday it was hard and completed today now is just disintegrating. But every time i touch the stuff that's already in the wall the rest of the day my hands become stingy and skin slightly paralyzed all over after taking a shower. I just went to Lowes and gave the tall blond guy who says he's one of the managers a tiny sample in a plastic bag and asked him to send it to the manufacturer. But he didn't even ask what brand i bought, he showed total lack of interest. Last time i bought two tubes i discovered at the check-stand that one of the tubes was cracked and took it back. Then another manager of the store, an older guy to whom i gave the cracked tube told me the expiration month on the tube was September 2012. (There was this Lowes bearded guy standing behind me so close i felt uncomfortable and couldn't talk more with the manager. I remember that the bearded guy one recent time i went there he was standing there band with his but right in front next to the paint department. That made uncomfortable as well.) Then they opened a new box with the expiration date 04/13.
Before caulking i discovered the corner with the missing wallpaper was cracked to pieces, i had to pour gypsum and redo the corner, using some transparent plastic molds, but you cannot pour gypsum all over you have to keep the edges clear of touching anything because if it touches the floor or a beam it's gone crack later due to vibration.
I did the whole thing because of the unidentified smoke coming out of it, i remember the first day i did the gypsum my face was stingy because of the smoke. The cracked parts of drywall i took out of there were brown inside because of the years of smoke. The rest if it probably still is. The apartment below is vacant for more than one year, i don't know exactly where the smoke is coming from. After i re-caulk there is no smoke for one day or so then it becomes soft in different areas not all of it and tiny holes appear together with the smoke.
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| 47 Eagle Crest dr, Lake Oswego, OR |
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| 47 Eagle Crest dr, Lake Oswego, OR |
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| 47 Eagle Crest dr, Lake Oswego, OR |
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I just redid the caulking between the tub and bathroom floor. The floor appears at places lowered.
Today in the morning my "next door neighbor" was slamming the door like... 10 times in an hour? After that i felt a strange smell and i went to the bath tub and find a few holes, smaller this time and filled them with caulk. I think that smell was burnt psy mushroom but nobody lives down stairs. I had a really big beard and had to trim it with the hair cutter and than shave it, it took me half hour. During that period of time the bathroom got filled again with smoke while somebody was taking a shower downstairs although nobody is living there and i saw nobody entering or leaving for a year now. After being exposed to that smoke i was woozy for an hour. The smoke situation repeated several times during the day.
Last Friday i vacuumed the whole place, the wet method, again. I examined the dirt with a fixed 55 mm camera lens, used as a magnifying glass and i saw in the dirt the same tar balls i saw in the insulation in the attic, round, a few tenth of a mm in diameter, in large numbers in the dirt. Those give the whole place a tarry smell adding to other smells.
This entrance to the building has 6 apartments. 4 are supposedly occupied including mine. But i don't know exactly how many people and what gender. They may be fewer than 3 and "they" may actually change clothes, make-ups and shuttle between apartments and never leave the place more than a couple of turns down the street. Because i never see two of them at a time, the closest was a couple of minute difference. Same height and weight,
During last few days they there was a new weird unidentified smoke in the apartment. To me it seemed like expensive cigarettes from old days. Today they don't use those additives, i think. But yesterday my other computer, and AMD 2600+, started to make a weird noise. It was the fan of the power supply that was overheating and burning dust. Replaced the power supply that was and ATX-2 rated 350 W with a 250 W ATX from an even older computer and there's no more smoke smell. I remembered i once measured the power consumption of that computer with a clamp ammeter and it was 150 W ad idle including the monitor so i think it's going to last.
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