It might help to spend a few days away from your house to see if you feel relief from the mold symptoms. I suppose a week would be even better.
Down here in the south part of Texas, mold does cause problems for a lot of people--but there are a lot of scams. Modern testing knowledge and tools really can identify small levels of mold that can be harmless. There really are safe levels of mold that can be identified and exploited by sleazy companies. I'm sure that even well-meaning, but overcautious inspectors have made large profits from unhealthy homeowners. Gary From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Fowle Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 6:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Testing for Mold? Claudia, I'd run the other way fast, free inspection just about guarantees they'll find something expesive. Although a good electrostatic air cleaner might remove mold spores it wouldn't help keep it off things unless it dehumidified. I bet a dehumidifier would be much much cheaper and do the job as well. If anybody so much as mentions air filters using ozone run the other way evenfaster, it's poison, but they sell them anyhow. As has been said, wash with a solution of bleech and dehumidify if you see water where it shouldn't be and you'll probably do fine and save lots of money. Tom Fowle On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 03:36:30PM -0500, Claudia wrote: > County Health Dept. referred me to a company that you have to pay. > When I did talk with this company, they stated they could come out and do an initial inspection for free. > They also stated that mold clean-up can get very, very expensive, and it doesn't permanently cure the problem because it could potentially come back? > Then, he talked to me about purchasing an air purification system, one that he swears by, of course, that only costs $750, plus tax. Go figure! > > Does anyone know whether these air purification systems really work? If anything, I would ask him, if we could try it, for a week or two, before deciding whether or not we wanted to purchase. > I think this guy probably just wants my money, but at this point, I don't know of any other companies that come out to test. > > Claudia > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tom Fowle > To: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:48 PM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Testing for Mold? > > > > The last place you should go is a company that also fixes the > roblem, it's one of the big current scams out there. > > Molds and mildew and th like are everywhere and apparrently not usually a > real problem. unless you've had long term water remaining in your place. > > County health dept. sounds like a good plan. > > Tom > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5199 (20100615) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5199 (20100615) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
