I haven’t paid attention to the Medium paywall, but I was deleting some stories and comments, and the site told me a comment wasn’t visible.
I don’t know how this works, but they probably have a pay-to-comment scheme.
I guess I’ll need to either pay up, or move some articles out to this blog. Oh well.
The remediation was finally done at the end of February and the beginning of March. The process involved a chemical that smelled like chlorine that irritated, and a machine that sucked the moisture and chemicals out of the air. It took a few days for it to dry out.
The room was repaired. The ceiling had been torn out, so new drywall was installed. (This was on March 5-7.)
We thought carpet would go in right afteward, but it didn’t happen. A week passed before we got confirmation that they were going to install laminate flooring, rather than carpet, but it still hasn’t been done. The floor looks like this, today:
We’re nearly two months into this. I’ve basically been evicted from the space, and Rosa and Claudia have not had their own beds.