Basement (Pt 1): There be MOLD!

Would have been nice if there be gold, but mold it was.  Our house, being roughly 60 years old, was bound to have water in the basement at one point or another, especially with cinder-block foundation walls.  It came in drips and drabs, was easily cleanable, and we ran a dehumidifier much of the time.  This is what it looked like during it's best days:

Unfortunately, this is the only "before" pic that I can find.  

This is the finished living area.  

There is also a large unfinished storage room and work shop, 

as well as a utility room and bathroom.

At the end of last summer, we got hit with a clogged condensate line in the central air handler, and a ton of condensation inside the basement that resulted in quite a bit of visible mold.  It was in the ceiling tiles all under the pipes and central air runs, and in the exposed wall areas surrounding the central air handler.

The clogged condensate line that for some reason empties under the floor...

Mold on the floor and walls around the central air handler...

More mold under the stairs...

To ensure that the mold remediation people killed all of the mold, we decided the best plan of action was to empty the basement of all contents (and clean them before putting them into temporary storage), and completely demo the basement down to the block walls.  Once I started the demo on the finished walls, I knew we had made the smart choice.  The mold and rot was as high as 3-4 feet up the inside of the walls in many spots.  We filled a dumpster with 4 tons of debris.

All in the middle of the summer.

Without any central A/C (since we didn't want to blow mold all over the rest of the house).

That was awesome...