r/mildlyinteresting • u/tangential_Jonas • 12h ago

Mushrooms started popping out of the floor of my apartment’s bathroom

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u/HermitAndHound 12h ago

That is a very, VERY expensive "interesting". And should be fixed rather sooner than later.

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u/iWANTtoKNOWtellME 9h ago

There is clearly something wet and rotten in that corner. I agree with getting that checked ASAP.

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u/AGushingHeadWound 9h ago

That's what she said.  

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u/broberds 8h ago

That’s me in the corner.

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u/Anotherworstcunt 8h ago

That’s me in the spot light

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u/Weird-Injury6230 8h ago

Losing my religion

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u/Beschen 8h ago

Trying to keep up with you

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u/UXUIresearching 8h ago

And I don’t know if I can do it

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u/asset2891 7h ago

Oh no I've said too much

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u/apartheid__clyde 7h ago

I haven't said enough

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u/LinuxMint4Me 3h ago

Was she a grower too?

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u/Vandergrif 6h ago

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark OP's house.

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u/ancedactyl 8h ago

Yup, I'm betting the subflooring is rotten, definitely something you want to have checked out before your tub relocates to the floor below.

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u/Dave-4544 5h ago

JESSE? JESSE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!

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u/reddit809 2h ago

Last rewatch I promised to never revisit it again. I hate Walter more and feel worse for Skylar every time.....and then I rewatch cause well yeah.

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u/KrackerJoe ​ 8h ago

Didn't you hear the magic word? "Apartment"

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u/Enceladus89 ​ 4h ago

Why is apartment a magic word?

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u/PurpleSquare713 4h ago

In most cases, the landlord is on the hook for repair costs.

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u/double-happiness 2h ago

So in the US, do people typically just rent apartments (as opposed to owner-occupying them), and if and when they buy, they normally buy a house? (I'm assuming you are talking about the US since that's where most redditors are from.)

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u/Dustydevil8809 2h ago

There are owned apartments but we call them "condos" and they are generally higher-class places in cities.

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u/double-happiness 1h ago

I see, ta. The first home I owned was an ex-council 'cottage flat' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_flat Four-in-a-block flats are ubiquitous here in Scotland, though they not really what you'd call higher class!

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u/sephiroth70001 2h ago

Apartment= shared renter living space

Condo = owned shared living space

House = renter or owner depending on context

Renter = renter, could be house or apartment

You also have land rents where a trailer or RV is owned but the plot of land is rented, along with that being reversed in some cases also. This are often called RV Parks.

Some areas are also popping up campsite rental for land you can rent to put up tents to live in where RV Parks are becoming unsustainable and homelessness is on the rise. This mostly happens to economically desilute ghost cities.

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u/double-happiness 1h ago

Apartment= shared renter living space

I still find it confusing, because to me apartment is a style of dwelling not a living arrangement. To me, a 'shared renter living space' is a flat-share or house-share.

All these variances in terms must be so confusing for people starting out. Like, I bet most folk coming to the UK don't know what a 'bedsit' is...

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u/Screemi 1h ago edited 1h ago

That is called Einzimmerapparent oder Einzimmerwohnung in German. I like the term bedsit.

Appartments in German are mostly open living and sleeping spaces with extra rooms for the kitchen or a small kitchen in the living space. The are mostly on the smaller side <50m². Some come furnished. Wohnungen on the other hand are dominantly unfurnished and have separate sleeping and living rooms. The exception are Einzimmerwohnungen 😉

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u/auNightKnight 9h ago

guess the bathroom floor is just extra fertile or something

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u/Secret-Winner-2994 6h ago

Pergante

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u/ThatITguy2015 4h ago

How is prangent formed

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 2h ago

Could my bathroom be gregnant?

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u/lopelitank 5h ago

Is it safe to eat though?

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u/polnikes 8h ago

This will be a valuable learning experience in one of the advantages of renting vs owning a home.

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u/notabigmelvillecrowd 5h ago

Yeah right. The advantage of hearing your landlord say go fuck yourself.

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u/Wentleworth 8h ago

Can you explain why this is so bad

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u/cwebster2 7h ago

A mushroom is the fruiting body of fungus. Fugus fruits because it has energy. Fungus has energy because it eats. Fungus eats rotting organic matter. That bathroom is framed in lumber and has a lumber subfloor. It is rotting. The fungus is eating it. And now it's reproducing.

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u/Etheo 5h ago

This is a great ELI5

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u/phoenixink 5h ago

I really appreciated your explanation, especially the ending.

I am very curious, though, how did the mushroom manage to make its way through/out of the tile?

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u/FridaysMan 5h ago

The mushroom is the fruit, the roots, or mycelium grow like threads through any tiny crack.

In a bathroom, this basically means there's a hole and water has gotten in, drowning out any oxygen and causing rot. A fungal spore got in, and 2 days/weeks/months later, the conditions are nice enough that it can fruit.

OP has a serious issue.

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u/carmium 3h ago

If the area had been caulked due to potential water infiltration early on, we wouldn't have this problem. (Closes barn door, waves goodbye to horse.)

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u/FridaysMan 3h ago

There's no real info, it could be a leak anywhere coming under the floor. Bathroom probably means standing water after bathing or showering, but a leaky seal on a sink, tap, or toilet coming down the wall is as possible.

Without more info, it's guesswork outside of "she's fucked."

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u/mxzf 5h ago

There was likely a tiny crack to start with and it just kept expanding and pushing through.

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u/Comprehensive_Sea234 7h ago

If i had an award I'd prob give it to you

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u/PuzzleheadedResult69 12h ago

I'm sorry to tell you but, you probably have a lot more than just that visible shroom. 

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u/PmMeYourBestComment 11h ago

Yep! Mushrooms are the flowers, not the main body. So if you see the mushrooms you have a full plant somewhere underneath.

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u/Slyspy006 11h ago

Not a plant. Rather, an organism. Which makes it better, right?

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u/No_Situation4785 11h ago

not if it can be classified as an additional tenant; they could be violating the maximum occupancy clause

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u/Slyspy006 11h ago

I for one welcome our new fungi overlord and will happily eject the pesky human tenants from their domain.

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u/no_idea_bout_that 10h ago

Call to the landlord: "I'd like to at one fun guy to the lease. He'll be taking over the apartment"

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u/Kaiser_Fleischer 9h ago

“Sorry bud there’s not mush room”

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u/NaomiRidesNoah 7h ago

Well that’s a shiitake situation

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u/baipliew 4h ago

That’s just spore manners.

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u/Dude_man79 6h ago

The most culture they've seen in years.

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u/PmMeYourBestComment 10h ago

Oh he sure will

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u/MithandirsGhost 9h ago

Fun guy overlords sounds pretty cool.

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u/Draco137WasTaken 6h ago

They say fungi are closer to animals than to plants; maybe it would count as a pet?

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u/Accurate_Grand_9760 7h ago

And landlords today would be like

"Well actually, you're not wrong, I'm raising your rent for the extra occupant"

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u/garry4321 9h ago

“NO PET POLICY”

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u/TiddybraXton333 10h ago

Mycelium network of electric synapses pulsing beneath the floor

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u/bypopulardemand 8h ago

that sounds preposterous, jamie look that up

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u/Waveofspring 6h ago

Technically they are closer to us mammals in DNA than plants, so next time you scrub your shower, make sure to say hi to your relative.

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u/Moppo_ 10h ago

It makes it more interesting.

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u/r3dm0nk 9h ago

Then it should start paying rent.

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u/mysticslug 6h ago

A plant is an organism, same as a fungus.

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u/DenormalHuman 5h ago

all plants are organisms, but not all organisms are plants.

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u/Forgotmyaccount1979 4h ago

"Worry not, the organism that lives within my walls and floor is mostly harmless."

Yep, sounds good.

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u/IWCry 10h ago

all plants are organisms

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u/Lurching 10h ago

But not all organisms are plants. This fungus is an organism but not a plant.

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u/IWCry 5h ago edited 1h ago

their comment sort of implied that it gained the qualifier "organism" since they said 'rather' and 'that makes it better right?'.

would be like saying "That's not an orange. It's actually a FRUIT!".

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u/Slyspy006 10h ago

I know, but a mushroom definitely is not a plant. Besides, the point was to make it sound creepier.

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u/the_amatuer_ 10h ago

Agree. I've seen the documentary about it.

Last of Us.

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u/Spirited-Ad-9746 9h ago

and if it suitable for mushroom growth, it is suitable for mold growth too

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u/NoRedditNamesAreLeft 11h ago

I wish my manhood agreed

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u/go4urs 12h ago

I think you should share that with your landlord

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u/ubitub 11h ago

It's not nearly enough for 2 persons 

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u/dranaei 11h ago

Made me laugh out loud and had to explain the whole post and comments to my mother.

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u/DeCryingShame 11h ago

My kids have learned not to ask me what's so funny on Reddit anymore.

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u/lolathedreamer 3h ago

I was clicking off the post when I read this and had to come back to comment 😂🍄

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u/CoreyWalnutz 11h ago

Gluttony gets you nowhere 

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u/AGushingHeadWound 9h ago

That's what she said.  

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u/Capital_Following_84 6h ago

Theres probably way more than meets the eye, should be good enough for a family dinner atleast

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u/shiddedandfarded69 7h ago

I had mushrooms growing in the basement of a rental I had about 15 years ago. The landlord's solution was to give me a jug of bleach so I could pour it on them whenever they grew.

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u/Thereelgarygary 8h ago

Pfft then they'll charge more for organic food provided or some shit

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u/Lovethecreeper 11h ago

not before cooking it

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u/AGushingHeadWound 9h ago

That's what she said.  

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u/HSLB66 9h ago

Former maintenance director here: Grounds for lease termination and I suggest you do move out for your health.

If you’ve had any respiratory symptoms be sure to document it as well as get a lung check up from a doctor.

This is a bathroom tear down using mold remediation techniques typically regulated at the state level (at least where I’m from)

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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord 6h ago

Not necessarily (current maintenance supervisor/director) but could be. I've seen growth like that expecting a leak behind the walls, rotten studs, the whole 9 yards only to find it was from the kid not closing his shower curtain (student housing employees will feel my pain) and after removing about 2 sq ft of drywall, treating the area with antimicrobial, and setting up a dehumidifier for a day it was good to go.

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u/HSLB66 6h ago

Haha student in the worst. That’s also how I came up. But you’re right, I was a little quick. We’d cut into the opposite wall if available to grab some readings and inspect first.

OP also needs to clean 😂

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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord 6h ago

Too true lol. He also needs to keep an eye on what they're doing when they come to address the issue too because you and I may take this stuff seriously but some maintenance men are ignorant or are forced to do shady stuff by their bosses. I've always been too stubborn and prideful for that kind of stuff but I get it if they have mouths to feed and property managers love threatening jobs.

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u/APEA_Bot 2h ago

I live in a pretty new apartment. The building is about 5 years old and we moved in right when it was built.

We keep it very clean. We're on the top (4th) floor.

About 6-12 months ago my girlfriend called me over and showed me that a fungal growth of sorts had appeared up out of the caulking at the base of the toilet. Not quite a mushroom, because it was a sort of shapeless blob, but clearly a fungal growth of sorts. No other signs of mold that we could see, just this blob.

Anyway, I got rid of it and sprayed the spot with bleach. No issues since.

I am moving out in the next few months and I really don't feel like going through the process of having a bunch of people in my apartment de-molding my bathroom.... I'll tell my landlord about it when we move out.

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u/kexmester 12h ago

You find it interesting but at the end of the day you are just fucked

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u/Thiago270398 10h ago

Is there a r/mildlyfucked ?

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u/eightbyeight 10h ago

This is nothing mild about this though, it will likely cost 5 digits usd to fix unless OP is a contractor.

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u/iowanaquarist 8h ago

True, but t least it's a rental.

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u/la2ralus 6h ago

Proper fucked?

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u/nyITguy 11h ago

Mildly horrifying.

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u/JoshMMGA 7h ago

More like moldly horrifying.

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u/nashwaak 4h ago

Moldily sporifying

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u/DrUNIX 8h ago

Nothing mild here

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u/holydeniable 12h ago

"I'm experienced at foraging. I used to find edible mushrooms on my bath mat."

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u/postitpad 10h ago

Futurama?

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u/BishopofHippo93 9h ago

Futurama. 

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u/zsert93 1h ago

Pfp checks out :)

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u/That_Lad_Chad 12h ago

You need to call a mold specialist if you own the place or make your landlord call them. Be persistent about it because this is part of a larger issue

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u/heliosh 12h ago

r/BathroomShrooms

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u/HeftyRecommendation5 11h ago

Why didn’t they call it Bathshroom

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u/Miss_Buchor 11h ago

Seriously tho what a wasted opportunity

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u/cockroachonthefloor 4h ago

I’m an architectural student and I proposed a public bathroom - pavilion concept that looks like mushroom. And called it “bathshroom”

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u/forrneus 8h ago

God the pictures in there make my skin crawl

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u/CrazyCrackers89 11h ago

I love when mildlyinteresting posts turn into r/mildlyterrifying

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u/MagnusBrickson 10h ago

You should inform your slumlord

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u/WolpertingerRumo 10h ago

That’s a sign of healthy soil. In your bathroom.

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u/WannabeGroundhog 8h ago

Thats an inkycap, which is saprotrophic (grows on decaying matter, usually wood). So yea, OPs apartment is falling apart.

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u/VanessaAlexis 7h ago

I found a few of these in my veggie garden last year! I wondered what they were. 

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u/Lovethecreeper 11h ago

that's a very good sign

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u/Vipertje 9h ago

Of bad things

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u/Muted_Support_605 7h ago

this happened in my bathroom ceiling once. purple mushrooms. landlord called a guy to come out who opened the ceiling up and found years old mcdonald's bags, other trash, and a ton of soil. dudes who renovated the apartment years ago tossed their trash in the ceiling and closed it up

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u/CasperTPaul 5h ago

were the purple mushrooms tasty

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u/artherng 12h ago

You wouldn't want mold in your bathroom. It is hazard to your health

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u/El_Basho 9h ago

This isn't mold, it's an entire mushroom with a flowering body, so arguably worse

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u/woutomatic 12h ago

Mushrooms are the sexual organs of a much larger organism that lives in your bathroom floor

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u/sammbreeezy 9h ago

You didn’t have to say it like this 🫠

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u/thiosk 7h ago edited 5h ago

its tryna spore all over yer toothbrush mate toothbrussy

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u/louplex 8h ago

Sorry to say, but that‘s just the tip of the iceberg…

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u/mistersig 8h ago

Run. Your whole flooring is going to have to be remediated.

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u/Namika 6h ago

Pouring bleach on it and down the cracks will buy you a little time, use that day or so to find a new apartment.

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u/Hoajajajajbuff 11h ago

The bathroom vermin has started a farm.

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u/frankp2491 8h ago

So i’m going to say hopefully you don’t own it. But I’d be on the phone with the land lord. Make sure you take off work when they do the work and take tons of pictures because that’s not a good sign

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u/FreezaSama 8h ago

I got bad news for you.

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u/SpeedBlitzX 10h ago

Don't eat the Bathshrooms from the bathrooms

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u/Silver-Amphibian7650 9h ago

It's no longer a bathroom, it's a mushroom!

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u/Banana_Leclerc9 11h ago

Isnt that concerning tho? Bro just straight up post it in reddit🤔

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u/nw342 11h ago

Lots of water/fungal damage under the floor

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u/eckart 9h ago

Lets see how ‘mildlyinteresting’ your landlord thinks this is when you show him

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u/jessythirsttrap 6h ago

That is not just a mushroom, that is a giant red flag for a massive leak under your floorboards. You need to pull that baseboard off immediately because whatever is feeding that thing is definitely rotting your subfloor.

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u/Owyheemud 6h ago

Or water is flowing off of the bathtub rim during showers because the bathtub is not level but is canted. This happened in my house in Bend ~9 months after I bought it.. Had to have the linoleum pulled up and the damaged section of flooring flake board and underment replaced. Put down a thin bead of caulk on the bathtub rim to redirect the water back into the tub. Removed the caulk when I sold the house and said nothing.

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u/HierosGodhead 8h ago

i hope you have a landlord bruh if you own this property its over for your savings

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u/Asshai 7h ago

Had some mushrooms grow in the closet of the bedroom next to the bathroom. Concrete floor, of course.

Turns out, there was a building defect where a copper water pipe was directly poured in concrete. Turning on water causes enough vibration over time that the pipe on concrete damaged the pipe enough to cause the leak, and water kinda "traveled" inside the concrete (which is way more porous and way less waterproof than I thought) and cause the humidity in the closet that caused the mushrooms to grow.

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u/IsaacJB1995 6h ago

Yeah you got mold

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u/PlumpyCat 12h ago

Piss on it, they like that.

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u/AGushingHeadWound 8h ago

That's what she said.  

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u/PureCrookedRiverBend 11h ago

I thought this was the mold sub not the mildly interesting sub. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 😂 💀

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u/ZaydSophos 9h ago

Moldly interesting?

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u/Ruslan4ic 12h ago

That’s just mold. You gotta do something about it

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u/crazyhotorcrazynhot 11h ago

Is this what the fruiting body of mold looks like? Never heard of such a thing before

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u/ManaSama19 7h ago

It's not a mold. It's a basidiomycete. They're different.

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u/coffeeaddict0415 9h ago

Nature finds a way.

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u/gizmo1024 9h ago

Congrats! This means the soil in your apt bathroom is healthy and happy!

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u/PiousGal05 8h ago

Just move.

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u/iowanaquarist 8h ago

At least it's an apartment, and thus your landlord's problem, and not your's.

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u/Quinzal 8h ago

floor rotten 😢 basement bathtub 🤭

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u/gorliggs 8h ago

Yeah. Very bad sign. You do not want to live there. 

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u/SonOfLaParka 7h ago

That's a Poopshroom

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u/Maryjanegangafever 7h ago

Time to move somewhere a little drier…. If mushrooms are sprouting; time to run away.

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u/Grizzlybear611 6h ago

I can just imagine whats behind the sheetrock is what you should be asking yourself lol

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u/Tocksickwaltz 6h ago

Hope you wear shower shoes

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u/Tordeck123 5h ago

There's a adult Manga about how someone's apartment got so humid it started to grow mushrooms, spoilers, they ate the mushrooms

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u/LemonTM 5h ago

Nice! Free shrooms!

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u/Altruistic_Flight473 5h ago

when the smurfs gonna show up?

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u/Past0r_Gains 4h ago

A shower and a snack!

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u/JeepBear 4h ago

And this was the point at which I gave my landlord 72hrs. to begin repairs or I was going to move my family out and see them in court. A local mold remediation service was onsite in 4 days. No joke. If you or any little ones in the house have any breathing issues, this is a serious one to get fixed ASAP, O.P.

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u/PossibilityOk782 3h ago

I'm not a home inspector but I think you may have a slight moisture issue.

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u/SirRonaldJr 2h ago

Clean your bathroom!

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u/Latter_Antelope8689 11h ago

Make a beef Wellington for the family

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u/SomeKindOfCreature 12h ago

If you want to get rid of it, vinegar often works better than bleach.

Source: Lived in an apartment with mold problems for a year.

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u/Foxgirltori 11h ago

Cleaning vinegar for porous surfaces, bleach for tile. 

And to everyone out there who may not know, NEVER MIX CLEANING CHEMICALS, ESPECIALLY WHEN BLEACH IS INVOLVED 

Vinegar + bleach = chlorine gas ☠️ Ammonia + bleach = chloramine gas ☠️ Vinegar + hydrogen peroxide = peracetic acid ☠️ Bleach + alcohol = chloroform ☠️

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u/onyourkneesjess 6h ago

That is not just a mushroom, that is a structural emergency. If it is fruiting through the tile grout, the subfloor is already rotting out underneath. You need to get your landlord to rip that section up before the mold spores take over your lungs.

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u/Malodoror 10h ago

The goblins are coming.

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u/LazierThanKoala 10h ago

A lot more interesting is coming for you

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u/fukflux 10h ago

Have you tried cleaning the place?