Fw: MonTel NOW Lou DOBBS!! Re: AC making me sick

[Guest guest]

Chennal 11.............29

Air conditioner makeing me sick.

>About a week or so ago they sprayed the asphalt in the park here

>with blacktop. It was pretty bad. I normally don't admit to

>chemicals making me sick. It was so bad that I decided to close up my

>trailer something I haven't done since I moved in a year ago because

>the mold in that monitor contaminated my living space and made me

>extremely sick. I was spooked so bad by this I thought that their

>would be no chance of closing the trailer and running a hepa filter

>without getting sick monitor or no monitor (I threw it out).

>To my surprise I felt really good when the ac WASN'T running at night

>(with windows shut and hepa running) but during the day when I ran

>the ac I got really sick. Than it hit me and I feel stupid for not

>thinking of this possibility. The evaporator coils in the unit collect

>condensate that drips into a pan that is drained outside. It never

>occurred to me that mold would grow in their with a quickness, just

>add spores. I made the definite connection to my ac running and me

>being sick, and not running it and me being better. Actually feeling

>good! Two highly contrasting situations.

>This is an instance where one might think that a little bit of mold

>brought in on a single book or clock radio or your shoes, or in your

>hair might be innocuous. And you would be wrong because it can

>migrate to your ac unit and propagate into a large colony in the drip

>pan and the constantly moist evaporator coils.

>I think I rectified this problem by buying one of those refillable

>spray bottles and modifying the sprayer with some quarter inch

>(outside diameter) hose I bought at home depot for a couple of bucks.

>The hose slid tightly over the straw on the sprayer that ordinarily

>goes into the bottle. I threw out the bottle and got a milk jug to

>supply the sprayer. I filled the milk jug with simple green. I stuck

>the hose into the milk jug and I sprayed down the evaporator coils

in the ac unit with simple green waited five minutes, bumped the fan

to draw the soap though the coils. Than sprayed the coils again with

simple green. I did this about three times to cut though any dirt or

mold build up on the coils (couldn't really see any but obviously it's

there in the drip pan and/or on the coils) (air condition repairmen

have a special detergent for doing this.) After this I rinsed the

coils than I mixed up a mild bleach solution and sprayed it down

(evaporator coils) a couple of times. (If I had ammonia I would have

used this but was in a hurry.)

It is to soon to tell but I think it helped markedly. I just wanted

to warn others in the group that although a book or some papers that

came out of a contaminated building might NOT make you react, the

spores could migrate to other places in your house where conditions

are hospitable (like ac unit or a leak, or refrigerator drip tray,

or the bathroom etc.) and start a colony that could really be

detrimental to your health.

Anyone can do this maintenance on their own ac unit their selves and I

would encourage it. (I don't recommend bleach or simple green or

ammonia, they might be ok I really don't know what is ok to use. I

just needed results right away. I am sure you could call an ac supply

house and they could point you in the right direction I might have

damaged my coils with the bleach because it is corrosive. That's why

I made the solution relatively weak ) I just wanted to get rid of the

mold as fast as possible.

Most air conditioners having set all winter have had ample time to

grow a colony in the drying coils and pan. Now would be a good time

to service them as described above.

Another problem this will solve is the drains that empty the drip pans

often get algae in them and they plug up. By spraying an

antibacterial on your coils it will collect in the pan and run down

the drain you are inadvertently killing the algae in the drain thus

preventing the disaster of the pan overflowing and saturating your

drywall with water.

>

[Guest guest]

>Montel and Lou Dobbs was Great today WoW we need more shows on issues just like

what Montel did today Please watch OPRAH today another very Important show.

maybe some of our issues will come up MCS and the .

>It was Great

I see you carbon copied my post to montel@... Elvira. I

hope he reads it. My tv is so addictive I threw it out in the shed so

I guess I won't be watching it.

Maybe someone will discuss the highpoints here.

[Guest guest]

That was why I sent it he had Lou Dobbs on today it was a hot show :-) the

Media had many stories on about mold as well I say it's about time people wake

up on this and other issues like, Toxic waist sites the list goes on

Homelessness.

WHAT EVERY HAPPEN TO WE THE PEOPLE!?.

Elvira

Re: Fw: [] MonTel NOW Lou DOBBS!! Re: AC making me sick

>Montel and Lou Dobbs was Great today WoW we need more shows on issues just

like what Montel did today Please watch OPRAH today another very Important show.

maybe some of our issues will come up MCS and the .

>It was Great

I see you carbon copied my post to montel@... Elvira. I

hope he reads it. My tv is so addictive I threw it out in the shed so

I guess I won't be watching it.

Maybe someone will discuss the highpoints here.

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