Re: Does stachybotrys smell? Yes, but I think it also persists longer than the smell.

[Guest guest]

Well that's good to know. Because the idea of a mold I can't smell

that is deadly, well...

Anyway, if and when it comes to gearing up for moving, I will probably

call on a bunch of people on this list and experts as well. I will

probably rent at first somewhere else. I really am nervous given my

delicate health and MCS and so on. I can't have a place with pergo

floors, recent kitchen cabinet or bathroom renovation, fresh (toxic)

paint, NOR mold. I think they should train sniffer dogs for mold--do

they do that? Can you imagine going from the frying pan into the fire?

That is one thing I do NOT want to do.

[Guest guest]

stachy in not always covered with slime. the thickness or amount of

slime or a constant slime is directly related to the moisture

available. seen and tested by a very reliable co. at my first home. I

found some by tape test at my second home but it was basicly being

smothered out by asp/pen and others but chaetomium did well with them.

and I'm sure there were areas that I couldn't get to were stachy was

doing it's thing. what is picked up in the air has very little to do

with the many different molds that can be found in their own little

nitch throughout a house. weither stachy smells? maybe the slime part

when it's there but about the only smell from it when dry is a earthy

dirt smell and that may be more whats mixed/decomposed from/with it

or what it was growing on than the mold itself. there is a

gritty,sanding grit felling with it but felling and smelling are to

different things.

[Guest guest]

>Can I just say that when you have MCS everything has a smell! A

friend described my sense of smell as " vampire " -I smelled a body cream

she used THE DAY BEFORE. I can tell when someone used ammonia to wash

their floors up to 3 days before (that's my record so far-3 days!)

It's an awful thing-my house will never ever smell good to me again. I

smell parts of the basement-the concrete floor has an annoying cold

smell that I can feel even upstairs on the second floor.

My mother suggested I hire myself out as one of the drug sniffing dogs

at the airport-she was joking of course, but I bet I could do it.

On the plus side-we can definitely trust our noses-if we smell

something, even if no one else does-it's there.

> stachy in not always covered with slime. the thickness or amount of

> slime or a constant slime is directly related to the moisture

> available. seen and tested by a very reliable co. at my first home. I

> found some by tape test at my second home but it was basicly being

> smothered out by asp/pen and others but chaetomium did well with them.

> and I'm sure there were areas that I couldn't get to were stachy was

> doing it's thing. what is picked up in the air has very little to do

> with the many different molds that can be found in their own little

> nitch throughout a house. weither stachy smells? maybe the slime part

> when it's there but about the only smell from it when dry is a earthy

> dirt smell and that may be more whats mixed/decomposed from/with it

> or what it was growing on than the mold itself. there is a

> gritty,sanding grit felling with it but felling and smelling are to

> different things.

>

[Guest guest]

At least you can still smell! First, I became sensitive to smells,

then I lost 99% of my sense of smell - when I got sick.. now I can

smell around 10% of what I used to be able to smell.. the pleasant

things have to be literally right under my nose..

There are lots of different mold smells.. old mold smell in clothing,

etc, is very different than living mold smell.