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Bathroom? Mushroom!
(04 Sep 2003 at 10:38) |
 Here's a weird thing. My bathroom is not really a paragon of lickable-cleanliness (whose is?) but it's no Grand Central Station, either. Nonetheless, sometimes a mushroom grows in one specific spot in the grout by the bathtub. It pops up quick, like two days!
I guess I'm the kind of guy who thinks that's pretty cool, even though I pull it out and then pour bleach all over the spot. Here's a nice image of it. |
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| You could try sealing the spot. |
| but then the shrooms wouldn't come back! |
They actually pushed through from under the grout... I'm not sure I want them pushing through in any other directions.
Anyway, what kind of super mushrooms can grow in Bleach? |
Collect the spores and study them.
This could be a scientific break through! |
This disturbing page may lend some idea...
http://www.moldinspection.com/mold_killer_fungicide.htm |
| Man, I need a whole space-suit in order to kill them?? |
| I had a mushroom grow from the grout in my bathroom too. Couldn't believe it at first. I had recently had a bad leak in my bathroom. I fear that the mushroom may indicate a more serious problem behind the tiles. |
| I just had the same thing happen. A mushroom that looks exactly like the one in the picture above grew almost before my very eyes in the corner, just in front of my shower door. I'm grossed out, AND worried for my health and about expensive repairs. I am not one for do-it-yourself stuff this serious. What should I do?? |
| I don't think it's a health concern. |
| So has anyone dealt with the mushroom/possible water damage yet? I have just found a mushroom in my bathroom as well. |
| We have one too. We used bleach and other household cleaners but it still comes back. We think it's gross too especially since we have a toddler. How can we find out if there are any health issues concerned with this fungus? This may sound a little off, but it is nice to know that we aren't the only ones dealing with a mushroom in our bathroom. |
I found a small mushroom sticking out from the grout in my shower. Gross! I live in Florida and everyone talks about mold and how it can just take over. I am thinking about getting a profesional in here to rip up some tiles and destroy what I suspect to be a mold problem in the underlying surfaces. Here is a post I read from another site...
..it probably means that the plaster behind the tiles is seriously damp. Fungi will only produce the mushrooms (basidiocarps in posh) when there has been enough growth of the main part (or mycelium) to make the organism think that producing spores (what the "mushroom is for) is worthwhile. These basidiocarps can be produced very rapidly (like overnight). What probably really wants doing is stripping off all the tiles and drying out the walls, then retiling and grouting with that anti-fungal grouty stuff that Unibond advertise on the telly. Failing that you could leave a fan heater in the room on full blast (with the extractor fan on too) to push some dry air through. You might have to do this for more than 24 hours. Then you could regrout with the antifungal stuff.
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| I found what i think is a mushroom growing in my bedroom which is right beside the bathroom where we had a shower leak. But it was unlike any mushroom I've ever seen. It was a light color and reminded me of pig skin wadded up. I would like to know what kind it is and if its poisonous. |
| I cannot believe others have this. I felt like we had reached the depths of slovelyness or something. My husband had told me we had mushrooms in the shower and that he saved one for me to see. It was a perfect specimen, a few inches tall. I scraped it up with a piece of cardboard and threw it away. Sounds like we can expect more to come back. I'll certainly take a picture next time, but I was in a hurry to get to work and the cleaning lady was coming this morning and I didn't want her to see it. I couldn't help telling her, though. She was appalled and said we better start spraying Tilex on after each shower. But sometimes the cat likes to get in the stall and drink water. I do think our tile needs redone. |
MUSHROOM NIGHTMARES
We bought our house 3 1/2 years ago--had a pre-purchase inspection done and everything, looked fine.
Then, 1 year age we noticed overnight that mushrooms were growing beside the basement shower stall.
Bottom line: We've done the bleach route numerous times and it now looks like the half the floor has growth under it (judging by the discoloration of the tile in the bathroom).
We haven't done anything yet--money, but are now thinking we better pull off the tile and maybe other stuff as well before the problem spreads beyond control.
Does anyone know:1) what could be causing this?, & 2) If one has to wear a protective face/breathing apparatus when cleaning out this problem? -- I've heard talk about black mold, air-born spores affecting breathing, etc.
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Sick! I just found the same mushrooms growing in my basement bathroom of our new, and yes, inspected, home (20 yrs old, but only 7 months new to us) We had some water leaking, but I never saw anything like this before!!!!!!! Glad to know I'm not alone.
I did some research. BRW, Bleach definitely does not work, but I read Hydrogen Peroxide does a bit better. I also found this page:
http://alsnetbiz.com/homeimprovement/homemade.html
This seems like the best option.
Sick! |
MUSHROOM NIGHTMARES: Well, we started today--tearing up the basement bathroom that is. So far, since we shut off the water supplies into the bathroom and bleached as much as possible we haven't had any further mushroom growth.
It looks like the growth problem seems to be limited to the bathroom floor area. I sure hope so.
Wish us luck! |
the mushrooms are a health concern, i found this comment on another site:
"I can't believe you are laughing about mushrooms in your bathroom! Please know that they are dangerous to your health! Your landlord should have it remediated/cleaned. They can cause serious health effects, including asthma, spitting up blood from bleeding lungs, and even death. My husband nearly died of this! He lost a third of his lungs at only 32 years old. I also know two people that died the same year he fell ill. Please look this up on the internet and get some help. Mushrooms are a fungus. Although my husband didn't have AIDS, 80 to 90 percent of AIDS patients die of fungal pneumonia! This is a life and death situation! Please heed my warning."
i am too disgusted to go into my bathroom because it is so nasty to have big, ugly mushrooms on the ceiling!! |
| Mushrooms live in lots of places, not just the bathroom. |
this is so bizarre, we have mushrooms growing in our bathroom. We just moved in 3 months ago and the house was inspected and the property is only a year and a half old. There is no evidence of any leaks, but i have two small children and am concerned not only for possible health hazards, but also the cost of remediation. And who do you call, a plumber or mold remediation company? I was just going to do some bleach action today, but wonder if that is useless? Whats really wierd is that mine appear to "blow up" with black dust showing up on the floor (by the way they grow white colored like any other mushroom and they grow and "die" in a matter of hours).
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Yet, another mushroom discovery! My daughter announced that a mushroom was growing by the bathtub! I yelled up to her 'that's ridiculous!' Well, outdone once again by my children! I found a perfect looking mushroom, growing from a stem, unlike the ones in the above photos.
I had NEVER heard of anything like that. I told my best friend about it and she's shocked! I clean my bathroom ALL of the time! But my husband and daughter splash water waaaay too much!
Pretty scary about the health hazards!!
I hope to see more info about this!
Thanks!
Elle in Pa. |
Well, I'm of the opinion that macroscopic mushrooms are no more of a health hazard than any of the microscopic bacteria and funguses that live in your bathroom and everywhere else in your house. We live with these environmental pests (and sometimes, friends) every day, visible or not.
Still, it seems best to pluck them out... ;) |
| I had a mushroom growing out of the side of my bathroom too. It is white with some yellow spots in the middle and is about 2 inches tall. It has a sunken in look at the top. I could smell the mushroom smell when I picked it out. I hope I do not get sick. I have only been living in this apartment for 2 months. It has those small 1 inch square tiles, maybe that's the problem. |
| I've had mushrooms in my bathroom occuring along the floor (lino)where it meets the shower, at first i was quite amused myself, normally i am fasinated with mushrooms, they popped up in both corners, about three, i think the plumbing is leaking into the floor under the lino, each time removing it and pouring bleach on the spot. Heres where it gets creepy, the other day i was cleaning up my room, reaching deep in the closet to get some laundry a found one 2 inches tall, again growing where the wall meets the carpet. In a matter of a week three more have appeared and they go from nothing one day to a half a inch the next growing right out of the carpet. pulled out some furnature and found they've been thriving befind it and ate up the carpet, and i even found what was hopefully just a piece of one but i fear it may have been growing on my house coat, and while i was cleaning up a piece touched my hand and it was slimy. my advice do something before they take over |
| Try TKO for this problem---it is an orange based cleaner that is super concentrated. I found it on Doug Kaufmanns show (knowthecause.com). I have been ordering it for years and it sure is great. |
| Try TKO for this problem---it is an orange based cleaner that is super concentrated. I found it on Doug Kaufmanns show (knowthecause.com). I have been ordering it for years and it sure is great. |
| we have mushrooms in ares two it but this ones are brown and there is a hole lot of them we tried bleach and a hole lot of trylex and that does not wrok we dont no what to do so i am going to kill them myslef i dont no how to do it tho can some one help me at all out there thanks |
| Yes, kill them! |
| Wow, this problem is wayyyyy more common than I thought!! I woke up this morning, turned on the shower and as i went to hop in noticed that there were mushrooms growing outta the tile!! The bathroom floor was replaced about this time last year, but there was a gap in the floor by the tub and the tile on the tub is broken, and right through that crack our 3-4 little mushrooms that were NOT there yesterday!! I don't know what to do! Its freaking me out BIG TIME! |
| Just yank 'em out. |
SALT
The little buggers don't like salt!
Never thought about using bleach.
Just take your container of Morton's or whatever and pour it where the pushy little bastards are stretching their way out & up and into the glorius shade where they emit their GLORIUS LITTLE PROGENY spores.
On a new room that we had built on to an existing house about a year ago, (the "plague" began this summer--rainy season)
we've had mushrooms growing outdoors from under the threshold AND INSIDE...same place, through the sealant at the base of the doorway.
After a great deal of chin-rubbing it is my decided theory that our construction engineer/fireman/friend didn't get enough of a downward slope on the concrete stoop. He mumbled as he advised us–as we were writing out his final check–to get some guttering put up there. |
| I have to again reiterate what everyone else has said. Thank God I'm not alone! A few months ago we had a little bright yellow mushroom growing out of the ledge under the window in the shower. Our apt. is very old and the bathroom does not have good ventilation so we were not surprised, but this morning I noticed a HUGE one growing out of the crack where the ledge meets the window. It is disgusting and I can't tell you how much this freaked me out, especially since we live in Southern California where things are relatively dry. We used a pile of salt on these nasty little guys and it works. I would suggest pouring salt where ever there is a problem to help them from coming up again. EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!!!! |
| I JUST FOUND ONE IN MY BATHROOM,AND I HAD A LEAK IN THE BACK OF THE TOILET. IT IS GROWING OUT FROM UNDER THE BASE BOARD,RUBBER STUFF, IT IS PALE YELLOW, AND I AM WONDERING IF THERE IS MOLD BEHIND THE WALL OR UNDER THE FLOOR. SHOULD THE MANAGER,REPAIR IT ?? THIS IS SO RUDE !!! IT WOULD SEEM THAT THERE WOULD BE CREEPY STUFF UNDER THE FLOOR.......I HAVE DEVELOPED RESPITORY PROBLEM OVER THE LAST YR, SO I AM THINKING THAT THE SPORES ARE DANGEROUS TO OUR HEALTH. VERY FATIGUED TOO........TOO MUCH SO. CAN ANYONE TELL OF ANYTHING THE DOCS CAN DO FOR THIS PROBLEM INSIDE OUR BODIES...........THIS IS NOT FUNNY. IT APPEARED OVER NIGHT.............TASSY |
If you have respiratory problems and fungus, I'd say to see a doctor!
Obviously you should also tell the landlord... |
| I just discovered three white mushrooms growing in a crack where the wood baseboard meets with the hardwood floors in my sunken living room. I knew that the living room is below the street level and we have a moisture problem. I didn't think that with all the waterproofing we did, layer of plastic-layer of wonderboard and another layer of plastic, then the hardwood floor, that any moistness can get through. I'm calling in an environmentalist to check the house, since I have three children under the age of four. I'm going to clean the suckers out and use bleach and salt after we pull the floor up. Uggghhhh!!! Glad to know it isn't an anomaly. |
will they get you high?
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| It's probably not a good idea to try. |
| 3 little mushrooms popped up in my shower last night, and they looked like pasta - the shell like ones in fact, really freaked me out. Have cleaned again but it looks like a damp problem, which has been going on forever, I suppose I shall try dry the room out. Has anyone else seen mushrooms like this? |
| I FOUND MUSHROOMS GROWING BEHIND MY TOILET JUST LIKE IN THE PICTURE |
| That's not my toilet! |
If you have mushrooms growing out of your bathroom tiles you likely have a pretty big problem. The mushroom in this picture is some type of oyster mushroom and these mushrooms colonize woody substances that contain lignen. What this likely means is that you have a wood 2x4 or wood support behind the tiles that has been fully colonized by the mushroom fungus, and the fungus fruit, or mushroom, is growing and attracted to the moisture in your bathroom. The fungus will eat away at the wood and make it structurally weak unless you dry it out. You have one of two options. You can perform a good caulking job to deny the fungus of moisture, thus killing it off eventually, or you can tear down the walls and replace the infested wood. If you do neither eventually the wood will become brittle worse than if termites had eaten it.
The good news is oyster mushrooms are edible, and tasty! |
Blieve me i know how u people feel, i just painted my bathreoom walls and there goes a mushroom on my wall breaking the paint off. its kinda sick in a way. i thought my bathroom was nasty until i came on the comp and looked it up and all of u people have the same thing. ive tried every thing i can possibly think of and nothings worked.
if any body has any suggestions please e-mail me at ninaxrox13@yahoomail.com
thankyou
Boom Boom |
| Hi I just found a huge mushroom at the corner of our fireplace, which we do not use. We live in a basement. There's black mold spots in our bathroom, but no actual mushmooms yet. I heard that when cleaning mold, it emits dangerous spores that can cause lung infections. So I'm not sure what to do...I have a feeling my landlord won't do much since she is generally clueless. Our hot water tank is leaking also, which can't help matters. |
According to the law, a landlord is required to do something about it. Even if your landlord is generally clueless, she can hire someone to take care of the problem. If your landlord doesn't take care of it, report them to your local health department. It's not worth getting repiratory ailments (allergies, bronchitis, asthma) from it.
We rent and we had black mold growing on our downstairs bathroom ceiling because the toilet upstairs was leaking. The landlord removed the ceiling and much to our surprise, we had a big cluster of brown mushrooms growing in the same spot where the black mold showed up on the ceiling. |
| The picture looks like Pleurotus ostreatus and is a good edible, but it growing on treated wood or chemicals used to clen with would make it unwise to eat. |
Right, I don't eat anything that has been on my bathroom floor.
I don't know how this page got to be the one stop shop for household fungus, but I am happy to report now that I haven't seen a mushroom in my apartment for a year and a half. |
| if you do a google search for bathroom mushroom, yours is the second side. Congratulations, dude! |
i had at least 3 mushroom-like things growing in my basement bedroom they were growing where the rug meets the wall, behind my open bag of clean cat litter and the wall appeared moist after i disposed of them and i keep my room generally pretty clean i mean, there is this one spot in the rug where water somehow seeps into the room a certain time of the year, but it's not really THAT close to where i'm talking about, altho it IS along the same wall.
never happened before, they looked like well, i thought someone had dropped dumplings on my floor or something. |
| I am so freaked out! It's my first time ever hearing of these things and I found one in my bathroom tonight, near the bathtub lining! I'm generally a pretty clean person, and scrub my bathroom regularly. At first I thought it was a seashell that had dropped on the bathroom floor, from my container by the tub...but wow! was I surprised to find an icky, mushroom instead! I screamed so loud I must have woken my neighbors. I've only been living in my apartment for five months now, but this is the first time I've seen anything like this. Pretty gross. |
I bet none of us will be able to eat mushrooms again after reading these posts! Actually, the mushroom is not a food, it is a fungus! Yuk!
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| Fungus can be food! |
| Me again. Someone is supposed to come next week to look at the mushroom situation. When the plumber came to fix the hot water tank he took a look at it and said the water leakage is related to the mushroom. Now there's another mushroom growing near it! Gross. I guess it can do a lot of damage to a building...i wonder if there are mushrooms growing above my bathroom ceiling also? I have those black spots on the ceiling...I'm wondering if I should look for another apartment, seriously. |
| I just discovered a big 3 inch mushroom by my bathroom sink where there was a pipe leak. I tried to remove it and it crumbled to pieces. I came online to read up about it and found this site, after reading your stories I guess I should be worried. Help!!! |
| Well just like all of you I found a mushroom in my bathroom just about 15 mins ago so I came online to check it out and found all of you writting with the same problem that I have. I think that this is very gross and I wish I knew what exactly would help so I don't waste money. The mushroom I found looked like the ones you see outside by a tree but lighter, and it was pretty big. I have 2 toddlers and I don't even want them in the bathroom now. I found it where the tub meets the vanity. My kids do a lot of splashing so I don't know if this problem will ever go away |
Just went down stairs to our second bathrrom that we don't use very much. The multiple landlords have all had problems getting the shower tyling right. I guess it still isn't right. If I owned and didn;t rent I guess I wouldn't be so astonished. Ours are like 5-6inches big. Check out the pictures:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bshangold/album?.dir=/3235&.src=ph&.tok=phsYckEBCYciq9KC |
| Whoa awesome. I ordered prints. |
After discovering yet another strange mushroom/fungi thingy emerging from the exterior side of my shower base (similar to the fungi in the image here) I decided it would be a wise move to search the net to broaden my appraisal of the situation - and, as luck would have it, arrived at this site.
The fungi I am finding seems to match more closely the description of a "pig skin" as so described by someone else here.
I have been living where I am for about a year and during the last 12 months have removed approx eight bathroom "mushrooms" and doused the bathroom area in bleach each time. Finally decided it would be a good idea to check out Dangerous Fungi on the net and this site popped up. Thanks for all the suggestions - salt & hydrogen peroxide - and links.......and now I know I am not alone!
(I live in far southern Australia, by the way).
I am intending to 'research' the fungi growth lurking in my bathroom and hopefully source some information from specialists in the field. If I discover the specimen I co-exist with is health-hazardous I will be sure to let you all know. |
After discovering yet another strange mushroom/fungi thingy emerging from the exterior side of my shower base (similar to the fungi in the image here) I decided it would be a wise move to search the net to broaden my appraisal of the situation - and, as luck would have it, arrived at this site.
The fungi I am finding seems to match more closely the description of a "pig skin" as so described by someone else here.
I have been living where I am for about a year and during the last 12 months have removed approx eight bathroom "mushrooms" and doused the bathroom area in bleach each time. Finally decided it would be a good idea to check out Dangerous Fungi on the net and this site popped up. Thanks for all the suggestions - salt & hydrogen peroxide - and links.......and now I know I am not alone!
(I live in far southern Australia, by the way).
I am intending to 'research' the fungi growth lurking in my bathroom and hopefully source some information from specialists in the field. If I discover the specimen I co-exist with is health-hazardous I will be sure to let you all know. |
I've started having mushrooms growing in my bathroom too over the last few weeks. Picked out at least 8 of the little buggers. They don't look like the one in the pic though - they are always tall on a skinny stalk with a purply/brown top and white underneath. And they pop up really quickly.
The idea of them makes my skin crawl! Did a big clean with bleach yesterday, and had nightmares all night about mushrooms being under the house and everywhere! Was hoping the bleach would work but now that I've read this I'm gonna salt the bathroom out too.
I really hope we don't have a water problem under the tiles, but I think we probably do. Its always wet around that side of the shower (toilet is right next door to it, so not sure if toilet is leaking or its just water from the shower, or both).
I'm glad that lots of other peope have this problem too, cos I really felt like such a slob when I saw the first mushroom. Its not like I clean the bathroom every day, but I'm not that bad with bathroom cleanliness! |
I have a leak coming from the back of my toilet for about 30 days. Very
very,small leak. Well I discovered a mushroom behind the toilet yesterday, white, 1 inch on stalk. I thought I was fricken seeing things and ran from it. My b-friend pulled it up and poured bleach. I will let my landlord know and use the salt in the meantime. I am laughing becuase I see I am not the only one that FREAKED and was grossed out and hallucinated in the night over the nasty stuff. |
| I like you am also seeing mushrooms and am very freaked out. Was in the bathroom this morning doing my "job", picked up my newspaper from the floor and noticed an orange mushroom with a long skinny stalk that was about 4 or 5 inches tall growing from right under the toilet. I totally freaked out, I went into the kitchen and told my wife to go see it, and warned my 5 1/2 year old son not to look at it. She removed it for me and noticed spores all over the floor under the toilet. I am sure it was not there a few days ago. I like many people who have posted also have a toddler who likes to play in the bathroom. Thank God she did not see it and try to eat it. It also might explain why my 5 1/2 year old son sneezed the entire time he was taking a bath last night. Three years ago we redid the entire bathroom, took it to the studs, replaced all fixtures and replaced the floor. I have suspected that the toilet seal might be leaking for a while, and the huge mushroom confirms my fears. I have a plumber scheduled for tomorrow to check the seal. It also looks like I need to crawl under the house and check for water damage there too. |
| Yuck!! I was in the bathroom washing my face when I looked down and saw a mushroom growing from the base of the toliet. I freaked out and made my husband come see it!! I am really suprised at how fast it showed up, because I just cleaned the bathroom a few days ago. And when I cleaned the bathroom I made sure that I cleaned under the toilet and around the base. I just can't believe that it popped up so fast. My husband took a picture and then cleaned it up, I refused to touch it. The mushroom released a black fine dust around the base, so I am guessing we will probably see more in the future. I have never ever heard of such a thing!! If it continues I will be calling the company we rent from and have them fix it. |
HAHAHHA O my GOodness! From the angle where i sit on the toilet i noticed this bulge comming from the side of the wall underneith the wall paper beside the shower. Lately i have seen a water puddle near my shower as well. Earlier today my mother noticed it too and she pealed it back and saw 3 mushrooms. We were so discusted. I nearly vomited on the spot. But its so cool! We laughed so hard. But, the mushrooms do not look like the one in the picture above. They look like actual long mushrooms with a hat on the top. Are these edible? Not that i want to eat them. But really, are they edible?
and WHAT DO I DO ABOUT THEM? haha
Thanks
Carolyn |
| Good news for me. It was the seal on the toliet, also my toliet had been running some, which provided a source for the mushroom to grow. I called a plumber, he replaced the seal, and put a $2 part in the tank of the toilet. I had no permanent water damage under the toilet. My advice is if you see any kind of mushroom in your bathroom that means you have a problem. Call a plumber and get it fixed asap, and never eat anything that grows in your bathroom. |
| I am a little diffrent form you all. I just moved in to an apartment a month and a half ago, I noticed this morning that I have a mushroom growing in my livingroom floor!!! YUCK! Like a lot of you I have a 3yr old son. A few weeks after we moved in he got real sick and I have not been able to get him better. This may explain it. Wish me luck as I feel I will most likely move again! |
| Like many others I am little relieved to see that this is a common occurance, as I taught only mildew grew in these places. A couple of days ago I was also surprised to see two mushroom stems sprout out to 1 1/2 inch long out of the ceiling. Then it began dying after 3 to 4 days. Left it so the super can come and look at it to determine if there is a more serious problem with the roof. (It colud be indications of a more serious problem) But after reading these post I'm going to take a picture, pull it down and if it pop up again then it seems I have to insist that the landlord do something. Thank god for the web without it I would have probably spent money on a costly mold inspector to explain what the hell is going on. :) |
Weird, I have a mushroom in my bath also! However, I only see mine when I pull down my pants to drop a duce. It's lodged between my hairy leg and my fee bag, if you know what I mean.
Can I eat it? |
| I just got done bleachn' the bathroom where I extracted a mushroom. It was growing between the tub and the tiled floor. We've been having leaking problems at the site for a looooong time. Reading all the previous info I know now I'd better get a plumber and a demolition crew to remedy this problem. Our house was built in 1969 and we bought it 6 years ago. I have suffered with chronic asthma since we bought it. Hmmmm, maybe it's the mold in the basement growing up into the bathroom floor? Perfect environment for fungis growth. Grossed out and thought I'd get online for some info. Thanks. |
| Hi I have to Agree with the person that said TKO works!!! There is a company in Calgary, Canada that makes it and it is very concentrated but it's also pet and child friendly if used correctly. There are only an orange odor, no bleachy smells or fumes. It is all natural. I am a dog groomer and we use it in our shop. I also have a 3 year old home. We built it through a builder. I had five little mushrooms grow up from an opening between our basement floor and back entryway door. it really grossed me out! but my husband pulled all the mushrooms up including all the insulation the builder had shoved down there. And we sprayed with TKO and it didn't come back. But now we are trying to find out if the builder didn't do his job correctly. Isn't the basement floor suposed to go all the way to the bottom of the door frame? Anyways Different matter altogether. But it does work. Thanks for the hint whoever put it on here. I would never have known. |
| You all cannot believe how relieved that I found this little support group. I have been thinking about this mushroom behind my toilet all day and night since I discovered it. I cannot stop thinking about it and cringing, thinking that my bathroom must be so incredibly nasty for something to GROW in it! And it doesn't help that I am an avid clean freak :) Thank you all for sharing. I do not feel so alone, and I will take all your suggestions and put them to the test on this little fungus bastard! |
| Well my question is about finding one in your basement floor. Like actually coming up out of the cement. It wasn't there a few days ago, but it's about 5 inches in diameter. We constantly have our dehumidifier going in the basement, but it's not able to dry it all up completely. We rent, but our landlord is both careless and clueless. If it's coming out of the cement, what's that indicative of? Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. We have a 3 year old, and I'm not sure if it's putting stuff into the air that's unsafe. Thanks!! |
We're in the process of buying a home that was foreclosed. It sat without power for about 10 months during which the basement flooded off & on- plus there is evidence that it's always been a wet basement in general. We had a home inspection done & our inspector instructed us to completely GUT the basement. Anything that's wood that can come out has to be removed, everything has to be power-washed, sterilized, & thoroughly dried out- then we have to paint it with a special paint. I don't know all the procedures & products since I don't have that info in front of me- but I do know he said to wear face masks that filter out at least 3 micron particles. Plus we were down in the basement yesterday and I noticed there's tons of mushrooms all over that weren't there before!! I guess now I'll also be wearing a full body suit too. They are SOOO creepy!
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| Perhaps you can fund the repairs process by first shooting a genre film down there. |
| I also thought of some sort of psychedelic mushroom farm... |
Oh my gosh...
Me too on the toilet mushrooms. I had the floor in my bathrrom replaced last fall. Tile vs. lino. Anway, about two months ago my first mushroom grew at the site of the water shult off valve..pured bleach on it and it grew bac. Now I'm gaetting black traces of smudge coming out from the toilet base...Do I need a plumber or what? |
| Tom, be my son! Your comments are so funny. RE: us mushroom folk, I'm there with y'all. I've lived in my Michigan home for 7 years and NEVER seen such a thing until about a month ago. I thought somebody's ear fell off on my basement floor until I realized it was a waxy (probably Peziza or Gyromitra) mushroom. You can learn more mushroom facts and see some great pictures on Americanmushrooms.com. Thanks to all for the comments. Besides letting me know I'm not alone, some of the comments made me laugh alound. Let's all follow Tom 7's advice..."Don't eat anything from your bathroom floor." |
what kind of mushroom is this?
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I've got a mushroom crop on the bathroom ceiling.
I live in a "pre-world war II" buidling in Brooklyn in NY. There has been four major leaks (from an apartment two floors above me) since June of 05. On Tues. the 21st I was brushing my teeth and looked up at the water damaged ceiling and saw what I thought were exposed wires. When I looked again I realized they were MUSHROOMS!!
They have long stems (3-4 in) and a small dark heads and they grow in groups of three in various parts of the ceiling. The always seem dead when I get home from work in the afternoon, but a new crop in a different part of the ceiling is there in the morning!!
Here's the kicker, on the first day I noticed the 'shrooms I had to go to court in reponse to my landlords complaint that I am an illegal subletee. He didn't sue me for money, but for return of the unit. It's a long story, but the basics are: 1) after the 2nd major water leak in February I told the landlord he had to fix the leak and the damage or I wouldn't pay rent. 2) His ONLY response to my demands was to sue me, not to look at the damage or send someone to look at it.
As a result we have a crop of mushrooms on the ceiling. I'm glad to be getting out of there and I'm sure the landlord has a bigger problem to fix because of his lack of integrity!! |
| Where can you buy this TKO product to get rid of these mushrooms? I am so terrified! |
Thank God I'm not alone on this. My wife was starting to accuse me of missing the seat and hitting behind the toilet!
Summary of remedies:
1. Salt
2. Hydrogen Peroxide
3. Bleach (hasn't worked for me)
4. TKO
Any others? |
| Hi all, just found two tiny mushrooms growing directly on the tile in the bathroom. I noticed two spots a few days ago, but thought it was just shoe dirt or dust and decided I'd clean it up when I cleaned the bathroom. The mushrooms looked like the ones someone described with a skinny stalk with a hat on. I love mother nature and all, but not this. I slid them off the tile --- anyone else have this? and flushed them down the toilet. I had never seen this on the floor here, and this house is about 30 years old. They weren't growing out of anything, just on the tile. I live about 1/2 mile from the beach, so it's frequently damp, and we have trouble with things drying in the bathroom. My husband is not very good with turning on the exhaust fan when he's in the shower. I sprayed the exposed floor with Lysol, but after reading all this, I am worried they will come back. Anyone else have a similar experience? |
| I woke up this morning and saw a musroom with a stem and cap growing out of my ceiling. My landlord is nonexistent and i'm not sure if the super even exists... I'm moving out in 3 months, so i don't know if i can just pluck the musroom nail up some boards to the ceiling and try to live with it, or is this a health concern? i would try the above mentioned remedies except it's being on the ceiling makes it hard... |
| LOL I went away for a week and came back to fund a bunch growing in my place by the shower! I have lived here for 7 years and this is a first. I was disturbed, a bit intrigued and now I am just confused are they dangerous or not? Salt and peroxide are great but is there a bigger problem? |
| my 7 yr old son came to me with a mushroom in a napkin asking me what was it and told me that it was hanging from the cabinet in the kitchen. When i went into the kitchen there were three little white ones with black spots what should i do |
| My daughter has a cronic leak in her basement for the last year. Last week she noticed several mushrooms in the area where the water settles. They are shiney looking and freeeeeked me out.I ended up cleaning up the mess for her and using bleach like everyone else. I have been looking online for 4 hours trying to find out some information about what they are and why they are there, Everything that Ive read so far talks about mold.fungus,and moisture. I found a few sights that have some products that they sell and swear that they work but I can only give you the names of them and hope that they work.The first one is called mold blaster.then mold blocker is used after its gone so it wont come back. They also talked about using a detergent with borate-based ingredient in it or biocides. I hope some of this will help someone out there,I too am somewhat relieved that therer are so many of us with the same problem.Good luck to you all!!!!!!! |
| my fungus is a waxy, pale yellow and looks like pasta shells. it is at the base of the wall behind my toilet and is also near our cats' litter box. i am so relieved that i am not the only person with fungus growing in my home. i will try salt as the vinegar and the bleach have not done much so far. i really hate fungus. |
| I was so tired last night that I forgot to add the most important part of all the articles that i read. If you have this problem you have a leak somewhere nearby. The only way to stop the mushrooms and fungus or mold from coming back is to find the leak and fix it. It could be inside a wall,in the wood,down the basement,or anywhere else for that matter.It could be something simple or it could be very toxic and harmful to you,your family,or even your home. If you or your family members are having respiratory symptoms that just started when you noticed the mushrooms it could be from mold somewhere in your home and this person could be sensitive to it. I could not believe what I was reading about all the different kinds of mold/fungus/mushrooms. I scared the hell out of me especially since my daughter has asthma . |
| ahhh ok so I am not alone, I goggled and found this thread... I have mushrooms growing from behind the wallpaper in my bathroom up by the ceiling... thin long 2 inch white/yellow stems and a black top. I am freaked out, also found some nasty blacksish stuff behind the wallpaper which I think is from other ones that rotted back there.... I am so disgusted :S |
| wow! me too! just plucked the second one from the grout beside my bathtub. the first was abut a month ago. mine are the type with the stalk and hat. was going to bleach the spot, but thought i'd check for suggestions online first - glad i found this site! i am aslo glad i am not the only one with this weirdo problem! feel a little bit less freaked out and grossed out now... going to salt the spot, and check for leaks... wish me luck! |
HA HA!
I live in Taiwan, and I have a stainless steel sink... next to the sink is a corner, and out of the seam for two months now have been baby mushrooms. We know it's from preparing vegetables, and the sharp corner probably snagged a mushroom and that's where it began. We've been cutting the little things off, but we can never get inside to remove it all (who knows how big it is on the other side?).
Since I didn't know what to use to kill it, I put some ketchup (acid!) on it this morning... they were 1cm balls... LATER THAT DAY they grew 10x the size into full tall mushrooms.... maybe 5cm high!!! funny.
I'll try peroxide first! We also will try a local bathroom cleaner, but carefully (& sparingly) since this is near our sink!
I'll let you know if it worked or not!
-John
*Nu-Skool Taiwan mushroom farmer* |
| Ketchup only makes them stronger! |
| Hey, My friend has a bathroom and apartment in her house in the basement right? so she uses the basement often, has a dehumidifier..but keeps tthe bathrooom door closed.. because there was a leak they fixed the leak.. but she just lets the water sit there in a big puddle on the floor in a corner around the toilet and it's very disgusting.. now these mushrooms are appearring all over the floor in the puddles.. it smells dry and musty..also black mold spots on the walls.. and the mushrooms are like tennessee said earlier waay up at top "It was a light color and reminded me of pig skin wadded up." yeah thats what it looked liike.. anybody else seen those? |
looks alot like THIS!!
whisky-jack.com/zoro/?q=node/78&size=_original |
| Looks like we're not alone in the feeling of - oh gross, a mushroom in the bathroom, what about the kids! I found one growing out of the shower drain in our master bedroom bath. I'll be trying all the home remedies, specifically bleach and salt to clean the line.........never heard of this before so thanks to all who posted here. |
| Hey, i thought i was alone !!!...pretty nasty eh?!...ive noticed a few in my bathroom as well, behind the toilet, where the wall meets the floor...I don't know what the deal is..im soo grossed out..(looks like a over grown, yellowish, outy bellybutton: SICK....i think its because im livin a house that was built over 100 years ago, God knows what's going on inside my walls...i'm not dirty, nor am i unsanitary,im jst sickly baffeled.... i'm glad i stumbled upon this page(while i was searching info on this nasty stuff).....its good to know, i'm not alone...p.s. just do your thang! ;) |
| MY LANDLORD TOLD ME THAT THE MUSHROOMS WERE A MISTERY AND THAT WAS IT. SHOULD SHE REMOVE THE CABINETS TO SEE WHAT"S GOING ON. WHAT SHOULD I DO? |
has anyone eaten one of these?
email if you have: emptyhousefilm@gmail.com |
Wow this thread has been going on for almost 3 years, nice!
I've just found strange mushroom type things in my basement bathroom, in between the shower base and the lino. They look almost like a inverted mushroom or a piece of pigs skin curled a bit.
So far my plan of attack is to dry the room out and fix the leaky shower, lift some of the lino a bit and inspect.
If it looks ok I will put some salt down in the cracks and then silicone them shut, if it looks bad I will just gut the entire room. :shrug: |
| I thought for sure I was the only one with this problem. Part of me is glad to see it's not just me, but part of me is irritated that these little buggers are hard to get rid of. I have them growing out of my bathroom wall next to the sink, one set growing in a corner right outside of the bathroom door and one set growing about three feet from there coming out of the hardwood against the wall. The are white on top, black underneath and leave a black ring on the floor when the pop up. The first time I found them, I only saw the black ring and thought my floor had caught fire. And they honestly pop up to about 4 inches tall during the night when i am sleeping. Its a mystery! My utility closet is right next to the bathroom and my air conditioner leaks in there, so I imagine that is where mine are stemming from. I will be trying salt and peroxide and will let you all know if it works! |
hey all, i just jumped in the shower the other day and looked down to see what i thought was a HUGE booger...upon closer inspection i saw that it was a little mushroom growing from a crack in the grouting in between the tiles. Our bathroom is actually really clean and we always use the dehumidifier (exhaust fan)..
i thought it was the coolest (but strangest) thing i had seen in a long time and told everyone to not use that bathroom for a few days. i wanted to see if they would come back so we left the bathroom alone and sure enough several more massive mushrooms started growing :D
we are getting the land lord to check it out and see what can be done to get rid of them..
p.s. they look like an inverted mushroom (off white/yellow in colour) and have tiny black spots on the underside |
Wow, I didn't know this was so common.
I just got back from a 4-day trip to find mushrooms growing out of my basement carpet. The dehumidifyer often leaks when it gets full, so it's no suprise that something could grow there. I plucked them out and threw them away, but I'm not sure if they're dangerous or not.
They were a grey-ish colour with lots of black squiggly spots. They were about an inch and 1/2 tall, and a little over a centimeter in diameter. The button tops were elongated. Anyone know what they could be? |
I just picked 14 mushrooms from my bathroom floor, i thought this was normal, i've never known anything different...they were in my parents place when i was a kid and we used to use them in cooking all the time.
Should i be concerned about them then? That means i'll have to start buying them! |
| I own a cleaning company in upstate NY. We specialize in mold cleaning and remediation. There are a few factors, which most people understand, that contribute directly to the growth of mold and mushrooms. Temperature, humidity (presence of moisture), and organic material for food. One or all off these factors need to be dealt with in order to control the problem. I have been working in this field for some time now and still run into situations that make me scratch my chin. Its unbelievable some of the places where molds will grow. One thing I can say though is that you should take caution when handling any type of mold or mushrooms. I have run into situations where apon leaving a heavily contaminated home, my partner and myself have been stricken with nausia and severe headaches. Wearing a respirator is a must for your protection. They taught us this in school and its good advice. I can stand this stuff. It destroys everything if not dealt with. I was saying earlier that it needs organics to grow such as wood but I have seen mold grow on everything. Everything!! Control the moisture. Protect yourselves |
| We too just found a mushroom growing next to our shower...no surprise that the wall is quite soft, probably has some mold and needs some work. Mold can be toxic and an extreme health hazard. I suggest to anyone with mushrooms growing in their house to take it seriously and look deeper than what appears on the surface. And I really hope that nobody is eating these specimens, even the bathroom oyster variety...that's disgusting. |
| I also found a mushroom growing out of our living room carpet. We are on the third floor and the ceiling leaks all the way down the wall when it rains. Told the property manager but they keep telling us the roofers will come. THe other day my husband pulled up one mushroom, now tonight we pulled up the carpet and the whole baseboard is covered in tiny little mushrooms. This is the grossest, most discusting thing I have ever seen. I will try the bleach-salt thing for now, but I will be raising hell with the landlord tommorow. Gross.... |
| Wow- yep- we found a long skinny stalk this morning in our bathroom growing out of the grout in our shower. Really nasty but pretty awesome- never seen anything like this inside the house before!! |
| I would like anyone who has had this professionally looked at respond. We built a $630,000 home approx. two years ago and since that time, every winter, my six year old son and myself develop sever breathing problems....can't seem to be diagnosed. This mushroom doesn't grow in my bathroom, but on the molding on the way to the walk-out basement. Maybe we need a dehumidifier???? |
I poured regular laundry detergent on a mushroom in the basement and it killed it
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| Killed WHAT, the mushroom or the people living in the house! |
| Listen everyone...if you find a mushroom anywhere in your home it is a warning sign that a more serious issue exists!!! I found one in my bathroom, and come to find out upon inspection, I have some serious water damage that led to several types of mold, including black mold. Fortunately, my homeowners insurance covers the majority of the $15,000 cost to tear everything apart in my bathroom, remediate the mold & rot, and re-build it...and this is just minor for what could've been possible had I ignored the situation. Several parties reiterated that I caught this problem at its onset. Good luck to all who face this problem :) |
I just found this in my bathroom this evening. How fast do these things grow? I was gone for 15 hours today, I come home... and I have mature mushrooms coming from the grout by my bathtub!
people.emich.edu/tambrose/junk/shroom.JPG
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I had mushrooms growing on my kitchen floor. There had been a leak
from the kitchen sink. The cabinets were moldy, and then I found the
fungus thing. It was sort of, uhm, like a hard white foam. Very tough and fibrous- had to saw it off with a knife. Then a bunch of the lanoleum tiles were loose, and there was white fungus under the
one next to where the mushroom type thing grew.
I had the leak fixed, and sprayed a LOT of bleach all over the inside of the cabinets. I reglued all the loose cabinets. Where the fungus was
growing, I put a very toxic anti-bacterial, anti-fungal product. It's made for killing all sorts of germs in a veterinarian type situation... kills
off contageous diseases, etc. I normally avoid using any toxic chemicals, but this seemed like a good time to make an exception. The mold seems to have stopped growing, and I imagine things are drying out pretty well now under the floor. It's been at least 4 months
since I've seen any mushroom growth. That whole area of the floor is sort of warped and swollen, though... I think the particle board beneath the lanoleum floor tiles got first swollen with moisture, then invaded with mold. It is gross. But I think it may be under control now, as long as the area stays dry (I live in a very dry climate). |
| thanks for making me feel better - I found mushrooms in the bathroom too and I freaked out. Gotta go call the landlord |
Well, I am glad to find out this is not an isolated case of weirdness. These little white shrooms growing from under the toilet are more common then we thought. In the process of trying to find a leak of some sort. Also know the toilet sweats very badly at times. Have a bubble in lino on the same side shroom was found. Hopefully we will get hold of the problem. My husband has developed more serious case of allergic rhinusitis since we moved here 4 years ago. Thanks for all the info.
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found something sticking out of tile in bathroom corner looked like pasta couldn't figure out what it was - it was disgusting and scared me.
There was a hole in the tile and the thing was growing out of it - I poured bleach down the hole not knowing what to do. I am a renter and am afraid the landlord will say that I am responsible for the mold growing behind the tiles and it is from a leaky shower.
Thanks to all for the comments . It's very scary. I also saw a tiny mushroom sprouting out from the tile in the shower and poured bleach all over the tiles. I am going to try salt and the hydrogen peroxide. It's too creepy to look at. |
| Does bathroom shower mold cause serious respiratory problems? As much as I try to keep it scrubbed, some mold problem keeps arising. How serious a problem can it be to breath? My teenager is worried about a long-term illness coming on. She's had sinus problems constantly. |
hi i'm cjk-washington, pa and i have a bathroom mushroom problem...
i just move into a new house and descovered what i call fairytale mushrooms in my bathroom they almost look like something out of thumbalina. it's crazy,but i'm glad to see that i am not the only one. |
| heh well it's been months and my friend kristie still hasn't done shit about her tropical mold factory of a bathroom, soon the mold will grow into a new species, maybe even more advanced as humans like on the movie evolution. i shall go venture into her bahtroom soon, and take a picture to show what happens if you let this go on for months. =) unless maybe she has gotten it fixed, i hope so. i'll keep you all updated. |
We found a mushroom growing out of the floor in the bathroom after some water damage occured. We plucked it out and I sprayed Lysol in the area and have not seen once since. This was a few days ago, so we are hoping it works, but the Lysol spray did say it kills mold, mildew, bacteria, and FUNGI. You never know.
Glad we are not alone! |
| This morning I saw a little cluster of beige and gray mushrooms growing under the radiator in my living room. Since I have suffered from severe mycophobia (fear of fungus) since childhood, this was really distressing for me. I have scraped away the horrible things and cleaned the carpet with bleach, mold and mildew remover and salt. I'm drying out the area too. Anything else I can do to prevent this happening again? The mere sight of a mushroom makes me feel nauseous. |
| I am glad to hear that other people are suffering with the same problem. My son showed me two weeks ago mushrooms coming out of our dining room floor by our front wall of the house. We discovered that their is a crack in our stone. the crack is repaired by the mushroom has returned and is growing fast. We have only been in our new home 1yr 1/2. My son suffers from asthma. We will be bringing in the professionals and possibly getting a lawyer. This sound serious. |
HI
I live in the Uk just found two wierd pasta like shapes coming out og the bottom of the shower cubicle. I was distressed and wondered what they were. My husband says theyr have been their for a while as he has been throwing them away!!!!YUK!!! I am in the Uk England..& have never seen one in 34years of my life inside.....I will try salt after husband has removed them but what is Lysol and can i get it from the uk??????
Really Gross stuff YUK YUk I have two little toddler explorers tooo.. |
| I have a stall shower in my apartment, and I also have a mushroom that grows out from under it. It will grow out from under the shower in about 2 days, then dies, and right away a new one takes its place. Thing is, it looks nothing like the picture at the top of the page. |
Eat em and trip some balls. I swear they work and god only know what you all would be without me.... Try em for yourself.
ENJOY! |
| I have had orange- SICKLY ORANGE mushrooms growing just inside my back sliding glass door to my deck in between linoleum and door strip which is OSB strand board- now, 3 years later, they are popping up a couple feet from my washing machine. My main concern is respiratory problems and arthritic/immune system responses to the spores; for me and everyone who has written here, TAKE PICTURES OF THIS STUFF if you have landlord or property owners of it you may have potential law suits or health department involvement- thats' my opinion. btw black mold is something to worry about in and of itself; in fact I believe when I lived elsewhere it contributed to the onset of fibromyalgia in me, and early onset arthritis possibly. good luck. oh, and to the person whos landlord says "beats me, it's a mystery" yeah.....RIGHT, many of you are describing SERIOUS structural problems of buildings! |
This site is really funny...I've laughed aloud several times reading it.
I just discovered some orange mushrooms growing in the crack between a wall and my ceiling in my home...it's in the hall right outside the bathroom. I thought it was funny and I thought the mushrooms were kind of pretty, and I left them there for my roommate to see when she got home. But after reading this site...I'm trying to determine whether it's really a health hazard or whether it's people being paranoid. I suppose I'll tell my landlords who live right upstairs (like Mr. and Mrs. Roeper) but that means I have to clean the house first...
Also I wonder how difficult it will be for them to make the mushrooms go away...it seems like gravity could be a problem, since they're right near the ceiling. I went to this [ www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/chooser.asp ] mushroom identification site, hoping that the mushrooms would be hallucinogenic...but I couldn't find any pictures that looked like the ones in my home. Booo. |
| We have the pasta-noodle variety growing out of the carpet in a basement room that shares a wall with a bathroom. I first thought the cats had dragged a lasagna noodle downstairs and were chewing on it, so threw it in the trash in disgust. A couple of days ago I was talking to my brother on the cell phone in the same room, looked down and there were three more lasagna noodles. It was like deja vu. I had the sudden sick realization that it was mushrooms. I told my brother and we discussed my putting little gnome figurines with them and taking pictures. Still have not done so, and in the meantime my grossed-out husband put a shoebox over them to keep cats and kids away. I know that will just make them grow faster. Sigh...I think we are looking at an expensive ordeal of having the basement floor torn out to see just what's going on under there. It rains a lot here, but the basement is otherwise dry so I suspect plumbing problems. Just what I was hoping to spend money on...Meanwhile I will try salt and Lysol as we already have those handy. |
| I had the a really discuting bathroom and it was barely ever clean but there was a leak in the drain pipe and the floor often got wet and the wood floor was kinda rotten because of it. But for some reason the mushroom grew on the outer wall of the bathroom where my bedroom was. They were so cute and I wanted to know i they were edible and why they grew in the house and not outside? Can you grow mushroom without soil and seeds, if so, how? |
Oh Sick! I too have the mushroom in the bathroom problem! My family has been living in a tiny 3 bed cottage that we rent for 3 years now and about a year ago I found the first one at the bottom of our stand up shower. I freaked and was so embarressed about it but did some looking online and found nothing. I scraped it up and cleaned as best I could with clorox wipes and lysol. Never have used bleach on them. Seems like every 4 months or so I'll find another one or two in that same spot. They are light to medium brown, small (about an inch wide) and I seem to have had two types I think as I've had some that look like the "bunched up pig skin" and others that look like an "outie belly button".. So frigging gross! I have two right now that I'm about to go get rid of. I guess this time I'll take pictures first like someone above mentioned if you rent. I'll try the salt too! I would say that we do have a mold problem in this house. I have scrubbed dark colored mold out of the window sills on more than one occasion. And we also have some in the window in the bathroom but you can't scrub it out, it's like it's in the paint or something. Creepy. Our landlords suck ass and never fix anything so I'm not holding my breath. We too have 3 small kids (6, 5, and 1) and are afraid for their health. Pets too. I really thought I was the only one! So good to see this "group" around!
Any idea's or advice please e-mail me at LadyLeonard84@aol.com
Thanks!
Tawny |
Were students in the UK, we smoked our bathroom mushroom and it was great, got so high i climbed a tree and had a poo on a squirrel!
I would recommend it to anyone! Smoke your mushroom! |
| So my mushroom story beats everyone's. I have mushrooms growing out of my carpet in my sons closet where the water heater is. My house is 10 years old, was inspected and we have only been here for 3 months! |
Awww...
They're lovely little blighters really. Just tryin to make their murky way in the world, same as everyone else! Have a heart ;)~ |
i have two teenagers living in our shed that we fixed up. they usually take care of their own space but the two times i have gotten out there to check things out in the past 6 mos. i swept up and found what i thought were lasagna noodles dropped under the sink on the floor(kitchen area).
the second time i wondered if it was something other than lasagna noodles since there isnt even a stove in the shed. talking to my son he said the same thing grows on the other side of the wall of the kitchen...lasagna noodle mushrooms...gross! the shed floor is right on the dirt ground(wood on dirt). i'm not surprised at weirdness such as mushrooms but how do i get rid of them? salt and lysol? bleach? should i tear the wall apart? there's also a sweet smell...is that typical of the lasagna mushroom?
k |
[quote="A fun guy"]This site is really funny...I've laughed aloud several times reading it.[/quote]
Yep... your not wrong mate, some of these posts are pure gold... hehe.
The thing is they are so serious and concerned about it, even though it's only nature doing it's thing... Fungus grows in damp conditions, it's a fact of life on Terra Firma.
Humans and fungus have co-existed for centuries, I can't see us being wiped out by a "lasagna noodle mushroom" any time soon, but hey who am I too judge? Rip up the floor and tear down that wall... or just get some anti fungal cream, the choice is yours.
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| WE HAVE GRACKS IN OUR CEILING.. COULD IT BE MUSHROOMS GROWING UNDERNEATH |
| WE HAVE CRACKS IN OUR CEILING AND LIVE ON THE THIRD FLOOR COULD IT BE MUSHROOMS GROWING IN THERE |
| i have mushrooms growing next to my bath tub they started yesterday and now they are one inch tall . is this for real? what do i do? i sprayed bleach and other chemicals, but it did not work. |
| okay I've read all the mushroom comments...My husband and I lived in a rent house about 2 years ago and mushrooms popped up out of the HALL WALL right behind where the shower pan was. We lived there for 2 months before this happened and moved out within 2 weeks.(Only because we wanted our deposit back and my husband had to replace the sheet rock where the leak was) Our landlord was in MAJOR denial about the whole cituation. My toddler and I were sick coughing up blood, rashes all over our body, scratchy throat and cough. We were sick for months. My husband was sick also but not as long. Our bi*** landlord said it was okay that is wasnt a health hazard but I talked with the health dept. and OH yes it is! There mushrooms were about 3 inches tall and were light green and brown. People beware mushrooms are a MAJOR health hazzard and toddlers can have permanent damage in their lungs as adults can too. Spores can leak into the body and grow around the lung area. I was told by a family Doctor's Practioner. Good luck with all your mushroom hunting! |
| i have mushrooms growing in my utilities closet....they're about 3 inches high and dark brown....what should i do?! |
| I just found two mushrooms today growing through the carpet in front of the washer. Can they really grow through the carpet? I removed them. Do you think I should wait and see if they grow back before I tell my landlord? |
| I have had a mushroom problem in my bathroom for over a year now and yes I have had some health issues.. The mushrooms in my bathroom looked like the pic on top and then they got out of control and went into looking like a dried up pig skin. I have been in the hospital for breathing problems and now pnamonia however you spell it.... I do have a problem with asthma but the doc said that the mold does not help it.. It has made my health worse.. I have stayed at a friends house for a few days and now the mold is gone.. We have take the old flooring out of my house and put new stuff in. Hoping that this is going to do the trick.. |
| I also have mushrooms growing in my kitchen near the sink my dishwasher leaked a while back without us really knowing becuae it was a slow leak just a fine mist so we don't know how long it was but one day we noticed everything under the dishwasher soaked. I don't remember what made us notice but now we have mushrooms growing something similar to the one above but it is light colored and reminds me of like a piece of bowtime pasta. |
Might as well add to the list.
Living in Manhattan, moved into a ground level apt in a brownstone about 3 months ago. The bathroom's always been kinda leaky but I never paid much thought cuz I'm just a youngin'. Whattya know, outta nowhere a mushroom popped outta where the tile meets the wall. Here's a pic:
www.isgoingtoeat.us/shroom.jpg
Can anyone identify?
I'm going to tell the landlord (he lives in the building so I'm sure he'll be somewhat concerned) and probably use salt - I'll follow up with results.
Good luck everyone! |
Now see, my mushroom, the second one so far, looks more like pasta previously mentioned here. At first it looked like a claw/hook thing! FREAKED ME OUT! Hubby wouldn't touch it at all. HAHA
Trying to find out how to take care of it. Our landlord is a rude person, who really doesn't care about our well-being (this stems from when the neighbors dog broke through our rotting fence and bit our labrador). She still won't have the fence repaired. So I doubt she would do anything for our bathroom. :P |
ya, so..... same story, bathroom, shrooms, leaky toilet.......
I have found out that it's best to stop using bleach and house hold chemicals, or at least use sparingly (once every two weeks).... The shrooms grow tolerance to the chemicals. Ha, I really am seriouse, it just sounds conspiratorial.
If you are sick.... sore throat allergy symptoms etc it may be mold and mildew which are common with shrooms and are known to cause health problems.
Sealing off the leak is the first step, then get a dehumidifier (it really work and costs from 150-2000 depening on how large an area), perhaps an air purifier as well, sealing over the grout is a great idea, the grout doesn't stop the shrooms and seems to give them a nice nest.
Also if you have a crawl space under your house, you may be doing a larger battle.
Watch out for black mold it's air born, so you can get it from your neighbor. It causes huge health problems, don't freak out not all black mold is the toxic kind. You would have to get it tested to find out. |
Hey this is me, Erica, again..
So my pal kristie still, after a year, hasn't fixed up that bathroom...
I did take a photo, but I think it got deleted.
this page does make me laugh so much..
"We have the pasta-noodle variety"
oh god hahaha |
[quote="Anonymous"]WE HAVE GRACKS IN OUR CEILING[/quote]
Gotta get dem gracks sorted out mun, beforerum dey sporn.
G'dday Erica. |
well, when i found my mushrooms i told my hubby there was pasta noodls on the floor... i got mad b/c i thouguht he was keeping the trash down there. he said ' they're mushrooms!" i said, bad excuse for having a leaky trash bag and neglecting to clean it up... but yes, they were mushrooms, and not pasta. I love the fact that im not the only noe who thinks this !!!!!
We live 4 blocks from the beach and have a brick basement floor - when it rains, the brick gets wet, but usually dries.
I have a parrot who has begun plucking her feathers - i thought it was due to the stress of moving (we just moved here)... butnow im worried its affecting her health. Will try salt, and my father (contractor) and uncle (architect) said to get a dehumifier and seal it w/ special sealing paint.
Alternatively, we could pour 3" of concrete over it. |
Just wanted to let you know what happened with our mushroom situation...
a while back i found a mushroom in the shower, reported it to the landlord and had the situation checked out... the shroom got sent off to a lab for testing and it was proven to be a nasty one, gave us ongoing respiratory problems for a while. the bathroom was checked out and had to be totally replaced, there was soooo much damage from the mushroom infection, the total cost was well in excess of $20,000 AUS and we had to go without a bathroom for more than 3 months while it was being rebuilt.
In conclusion:
if you find a mushroom somewhere like that, take caution... they can be dangerous and they can also be the sign of some major damage... our floor was so rotten underneath that its a miracle no one fell through.
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hey all, i just jumped in the shower the other day and looked down to see what i thought was a HUGE booger...upon closer inspection i saw that it was a little mushroom growing from a crack in the grouting in between the tiles. Our bathroom is actually really clean and we always use the dehumidifier (exhaust fan)..
i thought it was the coolest (but strangest) thing i had seen in a long time and told everyone to not use that bathroom for a few days. i wanted to see if they would come back so we left the bathroom alone and sure enough several more massive mushrooms started growing :D
we are getting the land lord to check it out and see what can be done to get rid of them..
p.s. they look like an inverted mushroom (off white/yellow in colour) and have tiny black spots on the underside
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| For a couple of weeks recently, I found one or two tall, skinny mushrooms growing against the carpet and the baseboard in the hallyway just outside my bathroom. "Curious", I first thought. I pulled it up, played scientist under the magnifying glass for a while, lost interest, then discarded it. Then grew another in almost the same spot. Then another. Each time I have removed them, another would appear. Now, I was more than curious but alarmed. (I must be a slow learner.) I told my husband I thought perhaps we had some water damage in the walls which had caused them. He played it off like I didn't know what I was talking about. I told him it could possibly lead to mold. I have had serious sinus infections lately and have been tired a lot. I've even had nasal surgery. I know these can be symptoms of mold or fungus circulating in the air. I have also noticed small black spots along the floorboards and down a seam in a corner behind the curtains in our bedroom. I hope this is not what is termed "black mold." We need to have this situation looked into soon, soon and very soon! I KNOW of what I speak, but this man doesn't want the expense of checking it out and ridding ourselves of the problem. I've been wanting to sell the house, but it will never sell with these problems going on. He won't say so, but I think my husband has treated the carpet with something in an attempt to SELF-SOLVE the situation (Cheapo), because now instead of mushrooms growing, there seems to be some type of white grangular material spreading in that area. Looks and feels like plaster of paris or chalk. Could it be lime? I'm beside myself. My health problems are becoming worse. I can't stay here. How do I get this man to understand the seriousness of this situation? Will it take a divorce? Oh, yeah, even HE is having respiratory problems, but he won't admit it. Nothing that a little Claritin can't solve. Can you beat that?! |
| Hi TOM I've found it strange that my foxfire browser doesn't upload your escape website while explorer works find.It all most had me thinking you've moved on to something newer and escape was abandoned!WWWWWWWWWWhu that was a close one.:-) |
| I'd never! It may just have my IP address cached, so it'll probably start working again in a few days. (Or you might have success clearing the cache.) |
| Hi! This is my second interaction with mushrooms in my bathroom. It is growing out of a wall between the standing shower and toilet (much closer to the shower) I cleaned and re-sealed the shower, and after a few months the mushrooms returned. It seems to grow in the same spot. The house is 18 years old, however I purchased it about 3 years ago. Any suggestions? Thanks |
Interesting. I got online to do some research because I too have some sort of fungus growing in my bathroom. I'm relieved I'm not the only one and that it's not a "cleanliness" issue. The fungus I have is growing out of the base of our toilet. I actually thought it was the wax seal leaking out at first and so did my husband. He reached down to touch it and freaked out when it was cold and wet feeling. If you've ever replaced a toilet you know the color I'm talking about for the wax seal. It has the same waxy look to it in the older mushroom. In the smaller new ones that are popping up they are almost clear, more of a pale milky yellow. The older fungus we found also doesn't have a cap on it but has almost like... petals for lack of a better description and those petals start curling under. I'm going to take a picture of it today before removing it all and putting down salt.
Thanks for all the advise. We have a leak under our tiles apparently so I'll soon be seeing how many more are under the toilet when I pull it up. What fun! |
| I just discovered a mushroom growing out of the carpet in my bedroom. I jut moved into this apartment about a month ago and this is just totally gross. With all the other issues i've been having, I wonder if this is grounds to get out of my lease. |
I have never been more horrified or entertained at the same time!
This should be on Fox News. I don’t have mushrooms yet…but…any day now…It could happen to me! I’m scared. I’ve been researching Candida albicans, yeast infections, toenail fungus, mold etc…and how it pertains to our health…cause of disease of all kinds in humans! Check out www.knowthecause.com and say your prayers! God help us!
Yikes! |
Hi all,
Got really freaked out and somewhat embarrassed a few days ago... Boyfriend found it and I picked it up and got rid of it. Was wearing a bandanna on my mouth & nose so I wouldn't breathe in spores (I'd advise people to do that, esp. if there's powder coming out when 'shrooms are disturbed!) Told my boyfriend "Let's not tell anybody we know!!" Sprayed the area w/Tilex type cleaner (supposed to kill mold) will see if it comes back... I wonder if we could have carried spores on our clothes from a stroll in the woods or something?
Anyway, it's a bit reassuring to see that other people have this problem too... If the 'shrooms come back, I might try TKO, too :-) |
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| does anyone have spores that have a little stalk and light brown oval ball on the end,,I know I did a terrible job replastering the wall behind my shower and im scared it will just fall down and a million of these spores will be behind it...oh I so want to move!! |
| Wow. Excellent site. Now I'm convinced I have to take this seriously. Unfortunately, if there's a leak it's coming from the flat above and who knows how long it will take to fix... |
| I'm so happy to know that my husband and I are not alone. However, our mushrooms are growing on the wood beams on the basement ceiling under the toliet area. I was soooo freaked out when I saw them about 3 weeks ago. I guess I'l spray Lysol and get a dehumidifier as well, as we too have two small children (2 and 4) and I'll contact our insurance company as one woman posted. I pray that we all have inexpensive success with our problems. |
| I have to wake up at five in the morning but instead of going to sleep i couldnt stop reading this! this mushroom situation and everyones reactions to it are hilarious. ive been cracking up all night. I was trying to look up some that i found in my yard...well at least this make me a feel a little better. when i was like 5 years old i found like 5 mushrooms growing in my grandmas bathroom and i freaked out and told my mom. I thought our family were the most disgusting people ever and ive never brought it up again. but im not alone. thank goodness :') |
| About a week or two ago we had lots of mushrooms growing outside our garage where the lawn tractor jumped the hose and ran for who knows how long. Anyway, they started looking like golf balls, then grew and grew into what looked like butts (basketball size) I took a picture of them because they were so funny. Anyway, went into the master bathroom tonight and freaked out! This morning I saw what looked like a Qtip sticking out of the wall between shower and vanity. I thought my husband was repairing a small hole that had been there for a while. Anyway, tonight it's grown and I now recognize it as a mushroom. Gross!!!! I hope by morning I don't have a big ol butt sticking out of my wall mooning me when I walk in! |
| About a week or two ago we had lots of mushrooms growing outside our garage where the lawn tractor jumped the hose and ran for who knows how long. Anyway, they started looking like golf balls, then grew and grew into what looked like butts (basketball size) I took a picture of them because they were so funny. Anyway, went into the master bathroom tonight and freaked out! This morning I saw what looked like a Qtip sticking out of the wall between shower and vanity. I thought my husband was repairing a small hole that had been there for a while. Anyway, tonight it's grown and I now recognize it as a mushroom. Gross!!!! I hope by morning I don't have a big ol butt sticking out of my wall mooning me when I walk in! |
| ive seen this thing grow behind my toilety, too. son weird but amazing at the same time.. |
Wow there are a lot of nasty mushroom and mold problems out there!!
I as well noticed a mushroom growing out of my bathroom floor, and when i went to clean it up, there was a lot of orange powder(spores). I just moved in 2 months ago(apt) and my son has a rash over his body. I thought it was a reaction to his 18 month immunization, it looked like chickenpox, does anyone think it could be from the mushroom or mold problem? If so, would i be able to proove it? Let me know eh? |
| yep, just scooped out a big 'ol shroom that was growing up and out of the shower drain... the stalk was attached to the PVC riser embedded in the concrete of the stall.. i can deal with a shroom once in the while in the drain, but NOT growing anywhere else... btw, our house was built in 2001 and is all 12" tile (no carpeting), so the appearance of this random fungus is making me apprehensive... |
HELLO EVERYONE,
I LET A ROOM IN THE UK SINCE I STUDY THERE. AND YES WE GOT MUSHROOMS AS WELL.
!!!!!!!! DOES ANYONE HAVE A SOLUTION THAT WORKS !!!!!!!!!!!!
LET ME KNOW, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT MY HEALTH AND THINK THE MUSHROOMS ARE REVOLTING. |
| does anyone really know wtf to do? |
| Try some Orange TKO from the Long Life Unlimited WEB site. |
For those of you wondering if your health problems are related to fungus and mold: I googled "Larry Foster Mold". Found "Bill Bright video Larry Foster mold video. WEB site is called www.aenvirocure.com.
There you will find an article that lays it on the line.
Also check out knowthecause.com. |
This Thread is pure GOLD Tom7... the Q3 thread pales in comparison, the shere bloody volume of it is staggering.
And the coments... the human tragedy... the despair... the joy even!
All over a photo of fungus in your shower.
GOLD!!!! |
| i had problem of mushrooms in the bathroom , this first time it happen i am from the philippines, i tried removing it but after a week it came back , so what i did is i scraped it again (so smelly and yucky you would really puke)then put hydrogen peroxide(aqua oxinada) the spot where i scraped the mushrooms, it was bubly when i first apply the hydrogen peroxide, i splash it over and over again with hydrogen peroxide until theres no bubbles anymore then, i put iodized salt then after that i put cement again on top of it, very thick one, well so far it has not come back.you might one to try it. |
| The online September 2007 issue of The Lakeshore Guardian, lakeshoreguardian.com (Know the Cause) references Larry Foster and the book he wrote about mold. Dr. Jenine (Our Magnificent Body's) talks about one of the most potent anti-fungals on the market. The Doctor's Corner is interesting too. |
| Do you know a child with autism? Would you like to hear one man's opinion of what may be the cause? Could it be mold? Google search Larry Foster Radio. Find HealthRadio.net. Listen to Health Proof Your Home recorded on 7/30/2007. It is a two part program, Larry Foster is interviewed in the second half of the show. |
| wow i had that happen before it was cool |
Found little mushrooms like y'all in the shower. Looked like little soft fleshy bits of pasta. One was bigger than a 2 litre milk bottle lid!
They grow quick too. Sometimes i go away for the weekend and they're there. Ive only been here for a few weeks and find myself really tired all the time. The smelly bathroom tells me something is not quite right. I hate the smell and am worried about my health too. Has anyone used anything yet and it REALLY worked?
1) TKO
2) Salt (iodised)
3) Hydrogen Peroxide
4) Bleach (i dont think this REALLY works. Just adds to the problem / it may be a temporary solution)
Any suggestions or SUCCESSFUL remedies? |
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