Had a customer come in yesterday, right before I was off work. She’d inherited an old trailer and was redecorating it. Yay, new curtains and décor! Then she showed me a photo of two moldy foam-rubber mattresses and said she wanted to recover them! 
I told her that the mold would eat right through the fabric and make people sick, the best thing to do was dispose of and replace the mattresses. She would not hear of it, said our foam was too narrow (which, admittedly it is, but there's probably wider foam elsewhere, like on the internet), she was getting them cleaned and insisted that she could recover them and make them good as new.
Seriously, how do you not comprehend that mold is toxic?! There's no guarantee the "cleaning" will get rid of all the mold, it'll likely come right back. I’ve got no problem with recovering old furniture, making do, etc. But when it’s contaminated with big black patches of mold, like these foam rubber mattresses were, I don't even want to deal with it, and I certainly wouldn't jeopardize my family's health because of it. But there's no getting through to some people, I guess.

I told her that the mold would eat right through the fabric and make people sick, the best thing to do was dispose of and replace the mattresses. She would not hear of it, said our foam was too narrow (which, admittedly it is, but there's probably wider foam elsewhere, like on the internet), she was getting them cleaned and insisted that she could recover them and make them good as new.
Seriously, how do you not comprehend that mold is toxic?! There's no guarantee the "cleaning" will get rid of all the mold, it'll likely come right back. I’ve got no problem with recovering old furniture, making do, etc. But when it’s contaminated with big black patches of mold, like these foam rubber mattresses were, I don't even want to deal with it, and I certainly wouldn't jeopardize my family's health because of it. But there's no getting through to some people, I guess.
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