Re: Dan--cities with least/ most mold

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This is post about most mold posted about a month ago you mentioned

bobbinsbiomed. I can't find one specifically with 'least mold'.

However, the bottom 'five' are listed here. Bottom 5 would be 5

least moldy....at least at time of testing!!

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> Yes I remember this one though the list I am thinking of was

specific for

> mold.

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[Guest guest]

exactly, just follow your nose,lol's glad you found someplace where

you and your children can fell better. interesting you mentiones

those A frames I was just thinking about them the other day. I've

seen some that were beautiful and I love the open loaft. please keep

us informed on how it's going.

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> Hi Barb,

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> Thanks for the post, but I have to question the methods of

their determination. There is a fascinating thing about statistics,

you can make them read whatever you want them to. For instance,

california is on the top 10, but where is the consideration from the

desert southern California and the always wet northern california

around the redwoods? It is a very large state with a variety of

weather patterns.

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> I don't see indiana on the list, but the people who made this

list probably don't suffer from mold illness, are they counting moss,

mushrooms, typically innocuous molds?

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> From the experience of a family who have been sensitized by

mold, here is our own personal experience. For over 1 year we

searched dozens of homes in the Shelbyille Indiana area, and in the

entire year, we found not one home we could move in to. Granted due

to our financial situation, as with many on this list, we could not

afford to move in to the new homes, but we have found mold in some of

them too as their building techniques include leaving the partially

built house, without a roof, to sit through weeks of rain before

continueing to build, then covering the sometimes still damp wood

with siding and dry wall.

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> I know from experience that Missouri, even though not on the

list of the top 10, was literally a state of Misery to my whole

family, in fact Carmella's voice was cracking before we got there,

but by the time we left she had no voice at all. Oklahoma had moldy

hotels, but as far as travelling through the state, we found the air

to be clean enough that we began improving. New Mexico, one of

the " DRY " states, we found ourselves coughing and leaving many of the

buildings we entered, including a hotel that made our son sick so

fast he said he was going to sleep in the van and left the room. He

is 9 years old, but he knows what he goes through with mold contact.

The problem with New Mexico, is the culture and their love of adobe

homes, which is OK, but by customs and style they build these

buildings with flat roofs. They may not have rain for 7 years, but

when they get rain, it stands on the roof indefinately, and if the

roof has developed a leak during the 7 year drought, then the rain

gives ample water to saturate the interiors. The worst moldy KOA

campground we found was in New Mexico!

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> Granted there is mold everywhere, we have found a very nice

clean home in CO, and even it has a small spot of green mold visible

from the basement, which we will take care of ourselves, but it isn't

bad enough to drive us out like everything else has. Most of the

businesses here are relatively clean in comparison to much we have

been through, and the architectural styling is that of " A " framed

roofs. It rains little, and when it does, it runs off due to the

geological features, and dries up rapidly.

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> Our house was built in 1920's, so it is latt & plaster, not dry

wall, the framework is probably Poplar which is a very hard wood and

does not readily breed mold like pine does. they did use drywall

during the remodeling that is just now finished, along with a new

roof, and the water lines and water heater are in a concrete basement.

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> While that list may be correct according to their studies, I

think practical experience and first hand exposure may not coincide

with their detectors. I do not carry mold spore meters and air

quality geiger counters, but I know what makes us sick, we can

normally walk into a building and tell you right off if there is a

problem. Carmella said she smelled gas in this house when she opened

the basement door, the gas company man said he didn't smell anything

and so did the guy that changed out the fitting on our gas stove, but

when they brought the meter in, they found a leak on a valve that was

such a minute leak, it took one minute for a bubble about the size of

a pin head to form when sprayed with a soapy mixture, none the less,

they are replacing the control valve on the furnace.

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> I say to anyone who is suffering, travelling through the states

during the " damp " season is the best way to judge, I'll not hinge my

family's health on something some organization tells me, but rather

by the reaction we have in the presence of some of these areas. For

example, our intention was to move to New Mexico because of it's dry

climate, but due to their building techniques, they are as bad in

many area's as other wetter states.

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> Thank you for the list though, it is interesting. Carmella has

always had Asthma but interestingly, neither she nor I had any

problems health wise when we lived in Southern California. Granted

we had not yet been sensitized by a sick building, but that didn't

happen in CA, it happened in indiana. I think for now I'll trust our

instincts and our own health reaction to determine what is healthy

and what is not.

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> Dan & Carmella

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[Guest guest]

D & C, Jeanine,

I agree with you. I couldn't make 'heads or tale' of list, but posted

it here because question was raised as to where was list of least

moldy cities, and this is all I could find, this and one I posted of

least/most polluted cities earlier.

--- In , " Dan & Carmella " <moldstory@...>

wrote:

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> Hi Barb,

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> Thanks for the post, but I have to question the methods of their

determination.