Black mold

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This one looks worse is dangling and fibrous.

>>972396
How crappy is your apartment?

>>972397
It's kind of crappy but I painted a bit to improve it.
It's cheap
So if I can remove this shit I get cheap rent.

>>972398
Get a lawyer and fuck them over if the don't fix it.

>>972398
It might be dangerous, you should call your landlord to see it.

>>972398
You should call your landlord about it.

>>972400
I probably wasn't supposed to take the range hood off bit it was gross and covered in oil.

Looks like I found something more gross.

Can't I fix this myself?

To me it just seems like dust infused with char.
So, burnt dust.

>>972395
>living in a nigger tenement
>living on welfare
>dude weed lol Bernie 2016

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>>972411
Do yourself a favor and kill yourself, my man.

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Could it just be dust?
Like greasy burned dust?

Does mold grow like this?

>>972405
What makes you say that?

Looks like grease, smoke and dirt, not mold. If it was in your HVAC I would say run. Since its above your stove its probably just evidence that the thing hasn't been cleaned in forever.

>>972420
Should I just clean it and then install the new range hood?

You know what I think I'm going to move out.

My lease is up now
I might as well.

>>972413
Clearly a Canadian, euro, or minority

>>972424
>paying money to improve a rental you have no investment in...
>clearly you're a retarded white person living in a ghetto thinking they should give money to help a slum lord

Holy shit the wires in the back of the range hood that I took off clicked together and made a big huge spark.

How dangerous is this shit?

This is what breakers are for anon

>>972434
If that wire shocked me
Would I have died?

Or just got a shock?

>>972435
Hopefully it'd knock some sense into you, for our sakes.

>>972435
>Would I have died?
yes

>>972439
But what would have happened?

>>972450
Seriously?
It's that easy to die from electricity?

The wires weren't even fully covered up before I took the thing down.

Anyone could have stuck their hands in their and got electrocuted.

>>972453
cardiac arrest

>>972453
dont fuck with electricity unless you really know what youre doing

had an uncle that was electrocuted putting up christmas lights. he survived but his heart was stopped long enough to cause brain damage and he was never the same again

>>972453
>Anyone could have stuck their hands in their and got electrocuted

>>972433
> wires in the back of the range hood that I took off
>that I took off

>>972453
>It's that easy to die from electricity?
kinda yeah but there's a lot of variables and each person is different. even tiny shocks if they go through your heart can kill you. basically don't fuck with electricity

>>972460
The wires came through the range hood and anyone could have touched them

Range hoods are the dumbest shit ever

Why does every other large appliance in your house have a safe wall outlet, while these things are just a live wire you have to manually attach to the appliance?

>>972521
Just so you know 1 amp can stop your heart of the current grounds out across your heart. I'm fact less than 1 amp can kill you. Say the electricity runs from your left hand across your chest and to your right arm you will die but if it ran from your left knee put your right hip you would live.

Call an electrician you dumb fuck. Or be a not dumb as a and turn off the electricity with the breaker box but you could still fuck it up and die.

>>972540
Holy typos. My bad I'm on mobile and just woke up but you get the point.

>>972540
If I turn all the power in my apartment off with the breaker, how would I fuck it up?

>>972544
Because it's an apartment not all the electricity may be controlled by the breaker in your apartment. Say...it would kill outlet and light power but the main wiring may have a building breaker so things like your AC and range hood that do not have traditional plugs may still be live.

It's unlikely but unless you have the tools to check for current you could die mate.

I have seen some really ghetto electrical setups in apartments.

It's VERY easy to die mate. Be REALLY careful. You don't even have to touch the wire to die the current could jump a small gap in the air and get you if you're tasty enough of a pathway for it.

>>972545
When I used the breaker, it shut off everything in my apartment.

What's a cheap way to test of it's still live?

>>972546
Multimeter from home Depot or walmart. A lot of different things can test for current but make sure you know how to use it.

Probably like 75 bucks I guess. Maybe less.

>>972552
Okay thanks

If the meter says there's absolutely no power, what's the chances of the power suddenly coming on or something?

>>972545
> not all the electricity is controlled by the main breaker
Is America the worst country for electricity? Seriously, mud huts in Africa don't suffer shit like this

>>972554
This is fucking bullshit, you never use a multimeter to test for dead.

Ideally you use a test lamp which will indicate the presence of electricity. You isolate the circuit at the breaker and loto. Don't say you can't loto, if you can lock yourself in the apartment then that's suitable but not ideal because you should have someone to spot you to call an ambulance when you kill yourself. Give them a telephone and handcuff then to a radiator so they can't touch anything. Now use your proving lamp to prove its dead. And then, here is the important part, you have to test your lamp on a known live source to show that the reason it didn't light up was because the circuit was dead and not the lamp. If you want belt and braces, for example your appliance is controlled from somewhere else and coincidence is that your neighbour turned it off when you isolated then you can connect for example a car jump lead as a dead short across the live incomers to the appliance which will hopefully trip an ocpd before it trips you into the morgue.

>>972396
That just looks like filth to me and not mold.

>>972435
120v probably 15 amps. If you just touched it with a dry hand it would be fucking uncomfortable but it probably wouldn't kill you. At least not from an incidental touch.

You have to kill the power to that shit.

I don't now why I'm replying. You're either not very smart or just trolling us.

Who the fuck works on their apartment that they are renting?

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>>972561
>>972566
>>972552

Alright well
I'm scared shitless to even go into the kitchen now.

I found I Kijiji there's plenty of electricians who will do quick cheap work, I'll pay someone 40 bucks to reattach the wires and put the range hood back up.

I've decided to move out of this shithole, my lease is up in April.

Thanks guys, at least I learned a valuable lesson about electricity today.

>>972566
The wire sparked big though and the end of one of the wires fell off.
This happened when it touched the ground wire though.

>>972561
>Can't use a meter it's unsafe, use a light instead.
And this highlights why you shouldn't listen to an anonymouse image board for help with things that could kill or hurt you.
Preferably you'd test it with a joystick first, or meter with the same function. And then you use the meter to confirm dead between conductors and then each conductor and known ground.

>>972607
>Joystick
Fuck me up autocorrect. Hotstick. Non contact voltage tester.

>>972554
I can't personally see why you would get electrocuted as long as you have used the multimeter correctly.

YouTube a video on how to use one and triple check you're correct. Electrical work is simple till its not. Wear thin leather glothes and a long sleeve shirt if you want another layer of protection but it's not much.

>>972656
What I cant see is how OP undid the wiring in the first place. You would think that he woulda put the wire nuts back on the live side

>>972607
No. Use a test lamp and proving kit.
http://martindale-electric.co.uk/drummond-test-lamps-c-250.html

>>972677
That's completely backwards.
>UK
Oh that explains it. Retarded yuro strikes again.

>>972661
I'm pretty sure this a troll.

>>972556
It's rare but I have seen it. Especially in ghetto shit.

>>972554
Lock Out / Tag Out

>>972459
If you put a bulb in his mouth would it light up?

>>972459
How did he get electrocuted?

>>972741
That has nothing to do with home electricity

>>972852
my bet is on a suicide plug

>>972688
no its actually very sensible

>>972873
>fixing something in someone else house
>get a shock, go to investigate breaker panel
>would you like a cup of tea dear, i just put the kettle on

happens retardedly too often, ask any electrician 99% of them will have a story as stupid as this.

>>972903
Because you're going to install a lockout system on your breaker and have a foreman supervising you and your wife to ensure proper lockout ragout procedure. Sure buddy... it's called looking your wife in the face and telling her that if you see her near the switchbox you will beat her senseless.

>>972903
No it's still fucking retarded. The only time I'd ever advise a test light is if you're checking out multiple outlets that were put in by day laborers.
You're advising (a retarded) OP to buy a ghetto tool he'll never use again instead of a more useful tool.
You are literally as dumb as OP.

I'm not going to waste many brain cells to your yurofuckery second paragraph, especially since it wasn't directed to me. If your tell your wife/SO/child (or wife's child for you yuros cucked by Muslims) and you can't trust them to NOT shock the fuck out of you, then fuck man they must be as backassward as you.

>>972556
well a lot of the ghetto apartments are not soviet russia apartment blocks, they are 1920's nice houses split up into apartments by nickle and dime contractors who got into the business because they're uncle knows what he's doing even though they're fuckups. So only penny pinching would be slumlords hire them.

But the point is that the breaker box and wiring for the 7 bedroom house was not split up nicely into the only good configuration to split it up into 3 apartments and turn some rooms into extra kitchens. and there's not really another way to make affordable housing, because to build a purpose built building you'd have to pay for demolition, then build a new building up to code (instead of having minor stuff grandfathered in). and then your shiny new building would get fucked for it's shiny new expensive because it's up to code wiring and plumbing that gets resold to the asshole slumlord handyman who wants to buy 1/3rd price materials 'off a truck' that are up to code.
But basically, that's it in a nutshell. It's a problem in europe too, but they get around it by democratic socialism and actually subsidizing people to not live in slums (usually). But i'm sure there's much MUCH worse conditions in the slum arab neighborhoods in France, for example.
It's basically an issue of people adjusting the electrical layout of houses on the cheap. and it's an issue in america because we were adding electricity everywhere in the 1920's instead of during the post-war rebuilding period in the 50's like Europe, so a lot of stuff was designed for the occasional light bulb because the refrigerator and television and electronic gadgets of all sorts hadn't been invented yet. So 10 amp service for the whole house is plenty to run lightbulbs. 100 amp is the basic 1950's retrofit to bring it up to usability, and that's the houses that still have knob and tube wiring because no one wants to be stuck with the bill of having to fix it by 'officially' finding out.

>>972946
>ghetto tool
you are a ghetto tool

You guise

>>972395
Just looks like old dust caked in old grease.

Black mold will be wherever there's excess water. Unless you have black shit in your shower, toilets, faucets, etc, you're golden.

some dude came and fixed it

paid him 50 bucks

moving out at the end of the month

:^)

>>972852
honestly not sure, i was just a kid. it was like late 80s and he was putting lights around a huge ass pine tree in the front yard. he said when he got shocked he couldn't let go and the only thing he remembered after that was the dog jumping on him then he woke up in the hospital. he always assumed the dog saved him and he treated that dog like a fucking king till it died and when it died he even gave it a big ass funeral and everything

>>972540
half an amp can kill you, unlikely but it can. a small shock like that won't usually stop your heart but it can make it beat irregularly and later(possibly minutes) lead to a heart attack

>>972402
No, this is illegal, and if you do not take basic legal precaution your landlord or the next tenant will sue you.

>>972942
>beating your wife

wew

>>972416
Kinda looks like sooty cobwebs to me homeboy. Black mold is more powdery, more organic looking.

>>972424
Hit it up with some Tilex spray. If it turns white, it was mold. If it stays black, it's soot.

>>972411
yeah straight up do go kill yourself you stimuli reactive waste of humanity.

>>972946
what an overly angry reactionary piece of shit you are. do you respond this way to people in your everyday life like this or just when you think you wont get in any "trouble"?