The Paston Effect

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I have read our esteemed Mr. 's paper several times and given

that I am on a small Caribbean Island, I have to mention that I have

observed pretty much every sympton described with the exception of

the recessed roll down shutters.

One thing in the paper was a reference to larger homes being more

prone.

The larger homes would require multiple air conditioning systems

possibly with multiple zones per system. It seems that people who can

afford large homes, cannot afford to keep the whole house cool. They

tend to just like to pay the power bills for cooling the areas of the

home they are presently occupying. So when systems are off, they do

not remove mositure.

It reminds me of someone who owns a Hummer but complains about $5 a

gallon gasoline.

With multiple systems, you get some interaction as well with one

system indirectly cooling another systems space reducing run time.

Smaller homes would tend to be a single system air conditioner and

perhaps this makes them less prone.

Something else that I find common in the larger homes is a large

master bathroom, or even a his and hers large master bathrooms of 200

to 400 square feet or more. You access these bathrooms from the

master bedroom.

What they also seem to have is large walk in closets that are

adjacent to the master baths. They store all kinds of potential

fungal food adjacent to the highest moisture source in the entire

home.

Without a substantial exhaust fan system there is not much luck

capturing excessive moisture, and with powerful exhaust fans that

capture the moisture, you can induce 200 to 400 CFM of infiltration

through the typical recessed lights or the exterior walls.