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Toxic Mold Your Health and Scientific Litature
I have noticed that some mold inspectors web sites are mis-quoting articles like "Indoor Mold, Toxigenic Fungi, and Stachybotrys chartarum" and other similar scientific articles to support the belief that toxic molds poison people in their homes...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Opinions
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Hidden House Mold Problems
We humans have a lot more in common with molds than we realize
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Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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Toxic Mold Testing Procedures
During a typical mold investigation, one of the inspectors our first steps is to interview the client to determine specific details in regards to any known mold problems, any health complaints, or any known changes or defects at the subject property that may have resulted in mold or moisture problems...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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Volatile Organic Compound Levels In The Home
Volatile organic compound also known as VOCs are common indoor pollutants composed of organic chemicals that evaporate into the air easily at room temperatures...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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Humidity Testing And Mold Problems In Hot Humid Climates
In hot humid climates, such as are encountered in tropical and sub tropical regions around the world proper humidity testing and control can be crucial to properly understanding and solving a mold problem...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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Mold Inspection Tips For Homeowners
I once received a call from a potential mold inspection client who feared that she may have hidden mold in her walls...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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Basic Fungal Biology For Homeowners And Mold Inspectors
Fungi are eukaryotic organisms, which means unlike bacteria they all have true cells with at least one nucleus in the cell and that nucleus is inside a nuclear membrane...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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Carbon Monoxide Carbon Dioxide And Volatile Organic Compounds
Carbon Monoxide is a poisonous gas that is 250 times better at binding with hemoglobin in blood cells than is oxygen...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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Can Rats, Chemical Odors, Or Even Stress, Cause Mold Like Health Reactions In Homeowners And Office Workers?
Mold is and always has been a major contributor in building related illness I have seen many clients who were ill as the result of living with mold...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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Will Toxic Black Mold In My Home Poison Me?
Toxic black mold or stachybotrys is found by certified mold inspectors about 6% of the time in indoor air samples and about 1% of the time in outdoor samples...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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Mold Testing Methods Surface Samples
When a mold inspector takes bulk, tape, carpet/dust, or swab samples, spore numbers are not compared quantitatively to outdoor levels...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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Fungal Infection Of The Lungs
The most common type of mold encountered by certified mold inspectors are penicillium and aspergillus, These two genera (large groups of closely related types) each has has nearly 200 species...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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Warning!!! Deadly Swimming Molds
Invades crops causes billions in lost revenues and millions starve to death
Ok the title is a bit over the top but in a round about way it is true...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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Do It Yourself Home Mold Testing Kits
What are they good for
If you feel that you have a mold problem, you can save money on a mold inspection by buying a mold testing kit from your local South Florida building supply store...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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The Most Popular Mold Testing Methods
Below are the five most widely used methods of taking mold spore samples from the air during mold inspections...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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Mold Allergy And Other Mold Related Health Issues
MOLD ALLERGY
The leading cause of health problems associated with mold is the common mold allergy Many who believe they are being poisoned by toxic molds are actually experiencing a mold allergy...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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10 Common Indoor Air Quality Problems
Mold and water damaged building materials
When leakage occurs it results in the growth of mold that in turn results in the release of pungent smelling and irritating volatile organic compounds, and allergenic mold spores into your air...
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Mold Biology And Mold Related Heath Issues
BASIC MOLD BIOLOGY:
Fungi share some basic similarities with plants and bacteria but are not plants nor are they bacteria...
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How To Identify Toxic Black Mold
Stachybotrys not always, but almost always exhibits a circular growth pattern forming round colonies of about 1 inch or less to about 1 foot across approximately...
Author: Daryl Watters - Category: Home Management
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Mold Spores In Your Home
The below information was not provided as final and defenitive mold spore level specifications because health responses to mold spore exposures differ from person to person...
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