Archive Oct. 12, 2009: Blocs remodeling?

The autumn sunset glows over endless Bucuresti bloc apartments each night as we sit down for dinner. A unique juxtaposition of the beautiful and drab of this city. The most recent development in the ‘housing’ department of Bucuresti is external insulation... we are hoping our bloc gets ‘chosen’ by the government for insulation.

The apparent plan is to encase every bloc in Bucuresti with ‘external insulation’ applied over many hours, with dangerous appearing scaffolding and hundreds of workers. Many Bucuresti dwellers have major health problems because the concrete blocs absorb moisture and many apartments are infested with mold!

Several family friends have children diagnosed with asthma that is activated by the mold in their apartment... when they move to the countryside- the symptoms disappear.

We are crossing our fingers that this is one health improving measure that will actually happen!