Re: More Mold now PLEASE HELP GOING CRAZY! -decontaminating

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Yes, this is a sci-fi illness-and clothing or things that touch

contaminated items will become contaminated-sometimes instantly. It is

usefull to try and log everything you do so you can look back and try

and see where contamination came from, but most people are unable to do

this. If you brought anything with you from a contaminated space-it

will contaminate your new space-these are the rules we have to live

with-it is difficult. I have mentioned many times the expensive soap

that I have found to decontaminated anything you can soak overnight in

hot water-1/2 cup of Vulpex soap in a big load washer-soaking washer.

Get it from Conservation Resourses in VA. It is $60 a litre-plus

shipping. This will work on fleece-although really thick fleese may

take 2 times-it is the only thing I have found to work on fleece-also

you can get a hugh plastic box-put a big ozone output generator in it -

add your stuff and let her rip-tape the box shut so no ozone gets out-

this works -time is dependent on how great the generator is and how

contaminated the stuff is. wash the stuff first to remove any spores-

put the box outside to avoid any toxin that may be released from

contaminating your living area. If you follow all these caveats-you can

have some stuff back. But remember the strong ozone will damage rubber-

elastic-loosen threads-and change and remove some inks.It is far safer

to throw away everything before you move-but most people are attached

to their stuff.

> Speaking of this fleece jacket.

>

>> > We have a Patagonia fleece jacket that still retains a small from

our

> > moldy apartment more than two years ago. Its one of several fleece

> > items we have that were the most problematic clothing tems we have.

> >

> > Fleece things in general, which we had a lot of, some pretty nice

> > items that we didn't want to throw away,

> > have seemed to be very hard to clean.

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