Customer asked me to install a panel behind their fish tank and the humidity messed everything up

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Man, I had a similar thing happen with a 55 gallon tank in a basement office. The drywall started bubbling up behind the trim after just a few months.

wilson.emma1d ago

Pull the trim off right now and check the moisture behind it, @andrew916. If you catch it early you might just have to dry it out and put new drywall in. But if that mold has been sitting there for months you're looking at ripping the whole wall open and replacing insulation too. Use a moisture meter if you've got one, they're like 20 bucks at Harbor Freight. Biggest mistake people make is just painting over the bubble and pretending it's fine. That's how you end up with a full blown mold problem that costs thousands to fix.