Here's the theory and we'll see how the practice goes, tomorrow morning.
Ingredients:
- caulking gun
- tube of clear silicone caulking stuff
- crowbar
- hammer
- finishing nails, around 1.5 inch ones
- finishing nail punch
- rubber gloves
- blue painters tape
Mark the floor with the tape & also the top of the drywall. Pry off the baseboards with the crowbar. This is the hard part: cuss a lot. Set the baseboards aside.
Put on the gloves. Take off the cap from the tube of caulking stuff. Pierce the &%@#$! nozzle of the tube with the handy yet startlingly invisible metal rod that swings out from the caulking gun. Stick the tube into the gun. Squeeze the trigger a bit.
Now squeeze out a line of caulk, around 1/8 inch wide/high, next to the tape on the floor and the tape on the drywall. Squish the baseboard back on and wiggle it around to make sure it's nice and stuck on. Nail the baseboards back onto the wall. Use the finishing nail punch for the final hammer blow on each nail. Or don't give a fuck about that part because it's behind the bed anyway.
Actually for me I'll have to do the top and the baseboard, and then do a whole separate step for the bottom and the quarter-round piece.
This could work, people!
The prying and the nailing are going to be the hard part. Especially the quarter round piece which I remember did NOT want to be nailed to anything. Not the oak flooring, certainly. And, being a round thing, it was hard to nail through it right next to the floor, sideways, into the stubborn baseboard.
Oh, and if you are me, borrow a serious filter mask, dress in protective clothing, and crawl under the house with flashlights since in theory the "wet wall" where the sink is will be open to the crawlspace. And then... Um, then what? Look to see if there is serious mold? Ew.
I am also told that the idea of spraying bleach is not really that smart. The bleach will evaporate and the water will just help the surviving mold colony to grow back!
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