! Visible mold on clothing!

July 23, 2005

,

I picked up a sweater that was folded up on my stairway and took a look at it to

see if it needed to be laundered and noticed it had 'spots' on it. I was ready

to toss it into laundry pile but then noticed 'spots' were perfectly round, one

although faint was very large with a number of smaller ones also. All of them

perfectly round and on closer inspection a perfectly round darker spot right in

the middle of the larger round one. In other words mold growing on my sweater.

It is very, very faint but definately there. I hold things up so light goes

through them from nearby window to see if something is clean and could see it

with the light going through the item.

I can't believe it.

Previous to this past year I would have not looked so hard. I would have seen

it needed cleaning and tossed it into wash. I don't know if this has happened

to any things else and I didn't notice it. I can't believe it since last winter

I had professional air testing and tests came out very well. I also had a

second test with a new type of gismo that indoor air came out with flying colors

so this is a shock.

All I can think of is increased humidity of summer, even though usually below

50%, although not often, has caused this. I didn't humidify all winter and

humidity was running in the 20's frequently and mid-30's would have been high

point in winter. I think now never to do testing in the winter, rather summer,

as I spent all this money. No way my indoor air be that good and this happen.

I know when I took it off and laid it there it didn't have spots on it.

Anyway, can I send the whole sweater to KP Labs or other lab? Do I call them

first? I looked over sight the other day but didn't see any directions there on

how to submit sample.

THANKS!!!

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