Re: Wet Basement? Try These Clean Up Tips

[Guest guest]

What is this Kilz? I was using bleach. Cough , Doug

tigerpaw2c <tigerpaw2c@...> wrote: Shoot, didn't know just a

little bit of Kilz would take care of all

the problems. Whodda thunk that, (grin).

Wet Basement? Try These Clean Up Tips

Monday, 09 Jun 2008

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If your home is flooded, be careful about the cleanup. If you're

able to clean flooded areas in three to four days, you lower your

chances of damage and mold forming. When there is mold, it is

usually necessary to rip out drywall and wood if there are large

amounts of mold.

If you do get mold growth, do not use bleach to clean or kill it.

Use products like Kilz, which you spray on the area or even paint it

on, and it kills the mold.

Also, if the mold is severe, call an inspector to do a mold

clearance test to make sure that mold spores are not present. Mold

can be a problem to those with sensitivity or allergies, but mold

only affects people because of the spores it puts out.

[Guest guest]

Kilz- since when haz it become a fungizide?

I had thought that it was an 'especially opaque' paint!?

[Guest guest]

Spore tests can onl test for spores. most health problems from mold

are caused by particles smaller than spores.

Also, spore tests are really inaccurate whenever stachybotrys is

involved. Bulk tests are fine (you need to test a piece of mold, which

hopefully would not be easy to find during clearance testing!) but the

kinds of 'air tests' that are done using spore traps - the kind that

use vacumn pumps, often give false negatives!

(there often are no stachy spores in the air, even when there is a

serious stachybotrys problem- the mold is in particlulates smaller

than conidia)

This is a serious problem!

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:48 PM, douglas richey <dglsrichey@...> wrote:

> What is this Kilz? I was using bleach. Cough , Doug

>

> tigerpaw2c <tigerpaw2c@...> wrote: Shoot, didn't know just a little

> bit of Kilz would take care of all

>

> the problems. Whodda thunk that, (grin).

>

> Wet Basement? Try These Clean Up Tips

> Monday, 09 Jun 2008

> MyFox Kansas City - Kansas City,MO*

>

> Wet basement in Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City News

>

> http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?

> contentId=6725090 & version=2 & locale=EN-US & layoutCode=TSTY & pageId=3.2.1

>

> If your home is flooded, be careful about the cleanup. If you're

> able to clean flooded areas in three to four days, you lower your

> chances of damage and mold forming. When there is mold, it is

> usually necessary to rip out drywall and wood if there are large

> amounts of mold.

>

> If you do get mold growth, do not use bleach to clean or kill it.

> Use products like Kilz, which you spray on the area or even paint it

> on, and it kills the mold.

>

> Also, if the mold is severe, call an inspector to do a mold

> clearance test to make sure that mold spores are not present. Mold

> can be a problem to those with sensitivity or allergies, but mold

> only affects people because of the spores it puts out.

>

>