Re: Clean up for Photos i kept and cant go near

[Guest guest]

Scanning is the only thing that I can think of. However, I'll be a service

would do it for

you. I have found some people are not scared to touch moldy things, just

doesn't affect

them.

Wonder if there is a service out there that does that? Hummmmm. a great

business idea

for someone who can work all suited up all day..... Could be a money maker.....

[Guest guest]

There is a new company that will scan your photos very cheaply and do

a good job.

They burn them all to Photo CDs.

Pogue at the nytimes.com website did a column about it a few months ago.

You have to pack the photos in some special way so that they order

them correctly, but it sounds worth it in your situation.

I don't know if they handle negatives but they might.

Buy and wear a good quality HEPA half face mask with particulate

filter (magenta color) and do the arranging and packing outside on a

windy day standing upwind of the photos you will be working on. You'll

only need to do it that once.

Then you will get back CDs that will be professionally scanned of all

of them. Much easier to deal with. Then you can just put your

originals back into clean bags and stash them away. Gradually, they

may lose their toxicity, over several years, especially if you air

them out, outdoors, on dry sunny days, again, downwind of yourself and

any of your activities, home, etc.

[Guest guest]

Live - curious. Did the article mention specifically mold? Do you have the

article

available? Do you know what the cost is? I, too, have many many photos lost in

my home.

Some of them I would love to keep like my son's childhood.

[Guest guest]

I don't know.

They could probably answer the question if you email them.

http://scanmyphotos.com/

[Guest guest]

I sent them an e-mail specifically asking about mold and the cost. I will post

when I hear

back.

>

> I don't know.

>

> They could probably answer the question if you email them.

>

> http://scanmyphotos.com/

>

[Guest guest]

I sent an e-mail asking if they scanned photos exposed to mold and this is the

response i

got -

" Hello _________,

Unfortunately we do not. Here is a link toour web site with services you can

use. http://www.scanmyphotos.com/. If you have any other questions please

call at 949-474-7654 or visit our 24/7 live support. Thank you.

Cesar Duran

cesar@...

Scanmyphotos.com

(949) 474-7654 "

Now, I cannot find that link at all. If you can, let me know. So, NO, they do

not risk it

either. These people are smart.

>

> I don't know.

>

> They could probably answer the question if you email them.

>

> http://scanmyphotos.com/

>

[Guest guest]

Since when does anything loose thier toxicity?? All that that will do is kill

the live matter but when you open them again, prasoomed in your new claean

envirenment then those dead " TOXINS " will then go airbourne and be inhaled when

you then go through them again. Unless I am missinformed, toxins never die, The

mold that creats them only goes dormant and will spring back to life when the

proper conditions are there again to grow more. But it is the dead part of mold

that is toxic.

If this was the case then we would all just store our things for a couple of

years or so and never throw them out or destroy them. I know I would have. But I

think giving this sort of advice is kind of counterproductive dont you think.

Corect me if I am wrong but I do think I got enough advice from some pretty good

people on this one to state this.

 

Chris

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: LiveSimply <quackadillian@...>

Subject: Re: [] Clean up for Photos i kept and cant go near

Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 9:33 AM

There is a new company that will scan your photos very cheaply and do

a good job.

They burn them all to Photo CDs.

Pogue at the nytimes.com website did a column about it a few months ago.

You have to pack the photos in some special way so that they order

them correctly, but it sounds worth it in your situation.

I don't know if they handle negatives but they might.

Buy and wear a good quality HEPA half face mask with particulate

filter (magenta color) and do the arranging and packing outside on a

windy day standing upwind of the photos you will be working on. You'll

only need to do it that once.

Then you will get back CDs that will be professionally scanned of all

of them. Much easier to deal with. Then you can just put your

originals back into clean bags and stash them away. Gradually, they

may lose their toxicity, over several years, especially if you air

them out, outdoors, on dry sunny days, again, downwind of yourself and

any of your activities, home, etc.

[Guest guest]

Thank you all for your input on the photos. i know they should have

been tossed with everything else. I just couldnt do it. but if

there was a fire in my home they would have been gone. um. but i

still cant get that through my head either.

I think i am going to call a remeiation type of guy. I might start

with emailing matt at mold works who tested a chunk of my apartments

ceiling and thanks to hime i won my cival suit against my mold lord.

he may be able to recomend someone or something.

in all honesty i am scared to death of touching anything from that

olf apartemtnt. i just paid off my move and was able to pay off my

new furniture. i dont have much money for the cleanup but i want to

know if its an option. maybe they can pick them up and put them in a

big room and disenfect them or something. they are all in albums 00

(well 90% are) and i am so over wearing a mask and ruining any more

items of clothing. it is my opinion that this stuff gets into you

skin as well as everywhere else.

i will let you guys know what i find out. I live in NY. but there

are many reputable companies in new jersey. so i will see what they

can do. i figure about 300.00 would be resonable for my saving my

lifetimes worth of photos? there is something about an origional

from 1945 or 1962 and a copy. i want my origionals. (such a baby)

not really, just a photo freak. well i gotta go. have to print

some pics for my niece.

take care all

rosanne

[Guest guest]

nne,

Listen, try calling an antique company. They deal with moldy things all the

time. They

may be able to recommend a service to you. If they could scan them onto disk, a

disk (in

case the operation that is doing it has mold, which is likely), a disk can be

washed in

warm soapy water and placed in another case.

Then you can print them off, OR, you can send them to a photo service and have

them

printed off.

It's worth a shot.

[Guest guest]

>Your problem really touched me-I feel for your possible loss. I had

one idea though, besides the obvious scanning solution:

What about sealing the really precious photos in plastic? There used

to be companies that did that, I wonder if they are still around? You

know,the guys that used to do laminating diplomas and stuff. Do you

think the mold could get through that? Well, it was just a thought...

> Thank you all for your input on the photos. i know they should have

> been tossed with everything else. I just couldnt do it. but if

> there was a fire in my home they would have been gone. um. but i

> still cant get that through my head either.

>

[Guest guest]

I didn't realize they were as moldy as it sounds they are and it turns

out (from their web site) that they

have a deal with a restoration company that sounds much more

expensive. (not the great deal that simple photo scanning is with

them.)

If photos have gotten wet they are often fused together and moldy and

detaching them from each other IS a job for professionals and very

time consuming, as well as being dangerously unhealthy for mold-ill

people.

Even paper items that have never gotten wet and are not visibly moldy

can be reactive for people. I know that from personal experience with

a bunch of books. They can gradually lose their reactivity, but I

think that varies from one situation to another. It doesn't always

happen. Stachybotrys toxins deteriorate VERY slowly, according the the

research I've seen. (TTUHSC)

all to Photo CDs.

>

[Guest guest]

Live, what part of hie do you not understand? They to NOT deal with moldy

photos, negatives AT ALL. Restoration of photos is not the same thing. The

link is not a company they work with, but them. Restoration of photos is taking

a photo that is OLD, but NOT MOLDY and restoring it.

THESE PEOPLE DO NOT TOUCH NOR HAVE THE DESIRE TO TOUCH MOLDY PHOTOS, NEGATIVES

ETC.

[Guest guest]

Did I ever say they did? I said " ask them "

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:48 PM, C A <semco_semco_semco@...> wrote:

> Live, what part of hie do you not understand? They to NOT deal with moldy

> photos, negatives AT ALL. Restoration of photos is not the same thing. The

> link is not a company they work with, but them. Restoration of photos is

> taking a photo that is OLD, but NOT MOLDY and restoring it.

>

> THESE PEOPLE DO NOT TOUCH NOR HAVE THE DESIRE TO TOUCH MOLDY PHOTOS,

> NEGATIVES ETC.

>

[Guest guest]

And I sent off an e-mail and did. THEY WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH MOLDY PHOTOS,

NEGATIVES, ETC.

> > Live, what part of hie do you not understand? They to

> NOT deal with moldy

> > photos, negatives AT ALL. Restoration of photos is not

> the same thing. The

> > link is not a company they work with, but them.

> Restoration of photos is

> > taking a photo that is OLD, but NOT MOLDY and

> restoring it.

> >

> > THESE PEOPLE DO NOT TOUCH NOR HAVE THE DESIRE TO TOUCH

> MOLDY PHOTOS,

> > NEGATIVES ETC.

> >