mschase
New Member
I have a client who just bought a house in a small rural community on MD's Eastern Shore. A section of the hardwood living room floor, directly in the center of the house, had boards that had obviously once been cut to permit access to the dirt crawlspace below (we think)
She removed the boards so that mold removal experts could get in and discovered some kind of a metal"trough" filled with stagnant, but transparent water directly under the area where she removed the boards.
The trough is about 4 x 2 ft. wide and seems to be about 2 ft. deep. No odor emits from the water. Have you ever seen anything like this before? Do you know what it is or was, and how do you think that water gets into it and what, if anything, should she do about it?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this
She removed the boards so that mold removal experts could get in and discovered some kind of a metal"trough" filled with stagnant, but transparent water directly under the area where she removed the boards.
The trough is about 4 x 2 ft. wide and seems to be about 2 ft. deep. No odor emits from the water. Have you ever seen anything like this before? Do you know what it is or was, and how do you think that water gets into it and what, if anything, should she do about it?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this