“They really delayed us substantially,” he said.
And when three weeks of pipe repair were done and HSA was ready to turn to renovating the basement, he said, Let’s Go found another problem downstairs—a mold infestation which had grown there while the plumbing repairs were in the works.
Though Rombauer said private tests had found that the mold was not of a lethal variety, HSA adopted a better-safe-than-sorry attitude and installed a containment system to ensure that no dangerous spores leaked to other floors of Let’s Go.
“There’s mold in the air all the time, and as far as I know there’s no mold standard, but any mold to me is something you don’t want to have,” he said.
Sam Lipson, Cambridge’s Director of Environmental Health, said his officers had not conducted any tests on the mold at Let’s Go.
—Staff writer Simon W. Vozick-Levinson can be reached at vozick@fas.harvard.edu.