Re: Re: Never had central air/ ROBERT

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Thanks for the pictures. I didn't know mold

would grow inside electronics like that. I will

check mine out. Thanks

As for a/c, that is just the problem I am talking

about, it SPREADS the problem, also just forced

air. That's why when I have been looking at

apartment, I like seeing the floorboard heaters

instead of forced air for me right now. It just

eliminates one of other source of contamination.

If room looks clean, there isn't air coming from

some place else into room. The only

contamination there could be would be mold inside

walls but actually I bet these older building

without central air probably didn't have much

problem, and if they have plaster rather than

drywall, so much the better. Still could be

problem, but less likely, so I might look in

renovated older buildings.

--- Christ <antares41_41@...>

wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 09:06:58 -0700 (PDT), you

> wrote:

>

[Guest guest]

Your welcome,

I should state that that monitor had an unusual history. I kept it

out doors for 2 years underneath a carport. Than it spent a little

over a year on a sailboat. So not only was it exposed directly to

water but it was in high humidity for all of that time. When I first

got sick ten years ago I rarely shut the house up thinking dilution

was the best answer but the problem with that is the humidity inside

your house makes your mold problem worse. At least in Florida that's

the case.

I don't know weather I would worry about heaters whatever kind they

are if they don't have evaporator coils they have no wet component's

in them to propagate the mold spores into working colonies. Force air

heaters should be fine, as long as they are not part of a central air

system.

I don't know about older buildings though, mine was 55 years old and

had plaster walls. They put wire screen on a sheet rock type of

material of the day and plastered over it. The sheet rock martial had

black mold on it. My ac drip pan overflowed in the attic on more than

one occasion and the water flowed down into the inside of one of my

walls . I knocked the wall out to see what was there and sure enough a

black fuzzy dried out growth. What is so bad about mold is it seems

to ratchet itself forward, if the water supply stop's it hibernates

until the water comes again and it just starts where it left off. I

am sure it manages to grow a little just from humidity in the air

also.

I wish I had a simple answer for where to move. My best guess would be

a brand new house but I have been told that they can come straight out

of the box with mold. Because sometimes it rains on critical

component's before it get's roofed.

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 13:00:34 -0700 (PDT), barb1283 wrote:

>Thanks for the pictures. I didn't know mold

>would grow inside electronics like that. I will

>check mine out. Thanks

>As for a/c, that is just the problem I am talking

>about, it SPREADS the problem, also just forced

>air. That's why when I have been looking at

>apartment, I like seeing the floorboard heaters

>instead of forced air for me right now. It just

>eliminates one of other source of contamination.

>If room looks clean, there isn't air coming from

>some place else into room. The only

>contamination there could be would be mold inside

>walls but actually I bet these older building

>without central air probably didn't have much

>problem, and if they have plaster rather than

>drywall, so much the better. Still could be

>problem, but less likely, so I might look in

>renovated older buildings.

[Guest guest]

What I don't like about forced air 'now', is that

I realize all you need is small problem one place

and it scatters it everywhere, like drywall

spreads it because mold finds it delicious.

As for safe housing. Yes, if I found a place I

was sure was safe, I'd be out the door

immediately.

--- Christ <antares41_41@...>

wrote:

> Your welcome,

> I should state that that monitor had an

> unusual history. I kept it

> out doors for 2 years underneath a carport.

> Than it