Re: Can Mold Illness Cause Psyhosis of Some Sort?? Empty houses

December 27, 2006

When I am well enough I look for another house to move to and this is what

scares me--so many empty houses with that detectable " eau de water damage " or

" eau de I am too cheap to use my heat and air so my house is ruined " or if you

are really unlucky you will encounter a water damaged house in which no one

lives there and it has been shut up without heat or air circulating. Some big

clues: it appears as if the family just got up and left. No food in the fridge,

toys still in the children's rooms, and all of the clothes still in the closets.

If I see " New AC2005, or all new carpet (on the areas which have carpet--fewer

homes seem to be fully carpeted nowadays), a retiled shower, a roof replaced, a

new hot water heater, deodorizers in the baths--even the unused baths, drains

spaced every few feet in the yard, green stuff growing on the concrete pads

below the air condensers, I don't even have to do further investigation anymore

because there is always that underlying " eau

de funk " which they can not use enough chemicals, paint, carpet or deodorizer

to cover up. It is just there. The owner's know it and they probably did not

leave a trail--they repaired sheet rock, repainted, used some kilz and

recarpeted and did not test or file a claim with insurance. In the meantime, I

have scrubbed and had others scrub my house inside and out, reconfigured the

drainage, removed the soft goods--clothes, upholstered furniture, rugs, replaced

my HVAC systems and all duct work, installed expensive filters, cleaned my area

beneath this old house and vented it, to the point where my is almost as good as

the newer severely water damaged houses. So I am here until I can locate

something else. All of these things I listed are what you should watch for

because people would be bankrupted if they disclosed, " Hot water heater leaked

thru ceiling onto 2 floors below it while we were at the movies. The water ran

for 2 hours before we discovered the leak. All of

the floors had to be resanded, the walls repainted and the attic had to be

reinsulated. " Nobody is going to disclose that nowadays. ASK questions: why

is that pan beneath the kitchen sink? why didn't you just fix the leak? etc.

but basically, it it does not pass first the sniff test and then the mold tests,

run before you buy something that will bankrupt you and kill you.

ssr3351@... wrote:

Try Mold Warriors or _www.MoldWarriors.com_ (http://www.MoldWarriors.com) or

_www.chronicneurotoxins.com_ (http://www.chronicneurotoxins.com) or

Does anyone know if possible psychosis is mentioned in a people-

friendly book, Dr Schaller's book (?), that I can give to my stepmom

and family. They still own house, although noone is living in it

anymore, so they could test basement for mold

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