Re: mold inside of walls

[Guest guest]

> I think I have the whole house pretty clean but how does one know if

> there is mold in wall cavities? Do you go around putting holes in the

> walls??

I think having the mold cultures would do it, as the walls are porous- maybe on

a very

humid day. If it isn't showing up, maybe putting a small hole and then testing?

I don't

know.....just an idea.

My house came with holes in the roof- 3 inspectors missed it, it was in an out

of the way

place. Things just happen, so we deal with it as we become aware. For me, the

mold

zapped my strength so I had such a hard time doing anything, even

maintenence...what a

dichotomy.

[Guest guest]

You need to be a real investigator. I had air quality person do

testing and he thought the air was good and tests came out pretty

good also. However I said if I keep door to room shut, it stinks.

He thought the smell perhaps from closet where there was some

antigues but smell was not stronger in there. I had house humidity

very low and I think that affected the tests. This spring roofer

found a leak around chimney right over top of the room. That was

fixed a few months ago and now room is not smelling any more. So

there you go, an air quality professional wrong really and tests not

conclusive. I needed to follow my the fact that things did not pass

the smell test to come to right answer.

Air quality tests may have caught it this summer. Humidity in house

over 40% but back this winter, humidty was at 25% or so.

--- In , " kl_clayton " <kl_clayton@y...>

wrote:

>

> My house came with holes in the roof- 3 inspectors missed it, it

was in an out of the way

> place. Things just happen, so we deal with it as we become aware.

For me, the mold

> zapped my strength so I had such a hard time doing anything, even

maintenence...what a

> dichotomy.