Lessons learned from home remodeling
Posted on April 11th, 2008 by Brian Corbino
Wallboard compound can grow mold. I shit you not.
Removed the shelves from the big closet, and I wanted to fill in the nail holes and gouges. Nothing fancy, it is only a closet after all. I opened the little can of joint compound, and it’s moldy. Which is pretty nasty. Tossed that. Got the little pail of spackle. Hard as a brick. Grabbed the big pail of joint compound, which has a piece of plastic over the stuff (of which there is not a lot left), and it was fine.
So I got the holes filled. But the lesson here - always cover your joint.
Compound. Joint compound. Yeah.