Re: Re: Never had central air/ DARLENE-CARL

[Guest guest]

I am beginning to believe that CENTRAL air

handling systems/particularly central air but any

central system is responsible or part of the

picture of what has gone wrong since just small

problem in one spot of building is immediately

spread wherever the air will take it and it takes

it everywhere.

It reminds me of story recently about prewashed

lettuce, so much was contaminated it is believed

because of one bad bunch, being spread throughout

all of it by the prewashing phase. In other

words something that would not happen it they

were to wrap up heads of lettuce and ship out

without chopping it up and prewashing it all

together like they did. Perhaps bad head of

lettuce wouldn't look too good after a week or so

wrapped in plastic and noone would buy it or at

least illness would have been confined to the few

heads picked from that area of crop instead of

all the lettuce picked and cleaned and packaged

that day. It was Dole brand.

Here at my home there was visible mold in

basement where tree roots were damaging a corner

of my house. It was an area of about 3 ft by 2

ft light growth. However way house is built,

basement air is completely mixed with whole

house. There is louvered door that divides

basement with upstairs half sunken basement.

There are four vents in basement. Close to the

number than are on first and second floor so air

in basement is same air as on second floor and

now I'm wondering is that why this became such a

huge problem for me. Of course cleaning it up

immediately would have been right. However I

didn't know how to correct source of water

problem, but I came here to take care of elderly

relative who had had a stroke and couldn't care

for herself anymore and so my time was limited.

Having run into my share of bathroom mold more

than a few times and cleaning it up easily I

didn't think it was a dire health threat.

However this is conclusion I am coming to, the

central forced air systems take something that

may remain a localized problem and safer that

way, and immediately make them a whole house

problem as soon as they spring up, and air

conditioners are particularly problematic even if

there is no maintenance problem that has sprung a

leak somewhere. So my conclusion: air

conditioning probabaly introduces alot of

problems that were not there before, forces air

systems cause them to become widespread problem

before you even have had time to know about the

localized problem, and problems that used to be

'localized', water leak somewhere could be

handled and fixed in that one area and rest of

house would not be affected were it not for

forced air systems spreading spores as soon as

they appear. Add to that the love of mold for

drywall and you have a house BUILT to aide the

spread of mold.

--- Darlene <darlenesb2000@...> wrote:

> Carl, I live on the 6th floor of a 9 floor

> building. Now the mycologist tested and the

> molds and deteriorating fiberglass are in my

> central