Finding worms inside your home is unsettling enough. Finding them crawling through a growing gap between your floor and wall is the kind of thing that sends homeowners and renters straight to the internet for answers. That’s exactly what happened when Reddit user Absolute_squash shared photos of a strange opening in their Florida rental, where water and worms appeared to be making their way inside. While many commenters blamed rotting wood and moisture damage, one viewer suggested a far more alarming possibility: the floor could be sinking due to a developing sinkhole beneath the home.
“Ain’t no WAY YOU GOT WORMS IN YO HOUSE DUDE!!!!” exclaimed a user in the comments of Absolute_squash’s post, saying that his home was essentially “uninhabitable.” As to why there’s a large gap between the floor and the wall, “I’m assuming ground floor cause of the worms, but your floor is sinking, the wall isn’t raising,” the commenter wrote. “You either got some serious washout under that thing or something worse, like a sinkhole forming under the house.”
If what the random Redditor claimed is true, Absolute_squash could be in serious trouble. “If it’s a sinkhole, you could literally die. Sinkholes are very common in Florida, and when you fall in, you are falling into the aquifer,” the user warned. They added how dying in a sinkhole is a terrifying and painful way to die, with there being low chances of a victim’s body being recovered. Needless to say, Absolute_squash was mortified.
“Bro this is scaring tf out of me! These townhouses circle a man-made pond so I’m not messing around,” OP wrote in response. While several dozen upvoted the commenter’s warning in agreement, other Redditors expressed that the worms crawling up from the floor do indeed reveal a literally deeper predicament.
Reddit Collectively Agrees That Worms Are the Least of the Florida Tenant’s Problems
“The problem isn’t the gap between the carpet and the wall. The problem is somewhere else,” said one person. “You’re basically living in a cave now, that has carpet,” remarked another. Others added how just the moisture alone can cause toxic mold growth, let alone cause worms to invade the interior through the massive gap.
Absolute_squash updated his post, saying that a maintenance worker came in and started “mansplaining that mold is in all of us and is normal,” which isn’t a very reassuring thing to hear from a supposed professional. That said, the inspection revealed the padding beneath the carpet was soaked, and the wood was rotting.
At the very least, this Florida townhouse tenant seems to be on top of things in search of a solution for his alleged sinking home.
