Re: Jeff May...a big thanks///question///the first web site you included ...........

[Guest guest]

Steve,

Only new carpet has a problem with off gassing.

I believe your carpets were used and so already

off gassed if they needed to. I already posted

to you asking what time of year did you bring

carpet into house and when did you start to feel

bad? If you started to feel bad in summer then

mold is likely as it can go dormant in dry cool

time of year and be activated by summer humidity,

any humidity that is over 50%. It could also be

that they aren't moldy but toxic and your body

just tolerated the toxins for awhile. Body has

an ability to withstand a certain amount of

toxins but when we get too many accumulated over

time, our body can't get rid of them anymore and

we become ill from them. However given your

description I would guess moldy and humidity of

summer activated mold spores to start to multiple

and also produce toxins, both.

--- shybasset <shybasset@...> wrote:

> didn't come up////I sure wished you lived in my

> city! BIG TIME

> QUESTION....WHY.....did it take six months!!!!

> for this carpet or

> mold in carpet to start gasing off(liv

[Guest guest]

-seems to me that no matter how old carpet is that if mold is in the

carpet eating whatever is there it would be offgasing it. mold needs

to eat and will eat on anything, it also needs moisture. you can have

your indoor humidity down and still have moisture spots somewhere in

your house, like the padding under carpet. I will never own another

house with carpet in it.one of these days they may fiqure out just

how bad carpet is, a catch all and a feast for mold and no dought

plays a role in allergies.have any of you ever seen carpet being took

out? even in the cleanest of homes there will be a layer of dust

under the padding and there will be places where padding is wet from

a spill long ago,wet foot traffic, things like that.pets and carpet

dont go well together at all, neither do kids and carpet.I really

fell that carpet plays a big role in indoor air problems. bug mites

thrive on dead cells, mold exposure causes more sloughing of dead

cells.roaches and mites thrive on mold,and spread mold. they also eat

on things in carpet. I dont care how good of vacumm cleaner you have

it does not clean the carpet good enough and doesn't even touch on

cleaning the padding and what chemicals are left in carpet and

padding with carpet cleaning? and moisture from carpet cleaning goes

into padding. your carpet may look clean but what does the padding

look like underneath? and whats underneath that? even if you buy a

place with carpet and its not new, who knows what chemicals are hid

there from before.maybe the house was fumigated,treated for bugs

prior to you buying it and the chemicals used are in the carpet. --

In , bbw <barb1283@...> wrote:

>

> Steve,

> Only new carpet has a problem with off gassing.

> I believe your carpets were used and so already

> off gassed if they needed to. I already posted

> to you asking what time of year did you bring

> carpet into house and when did you start to feel

> bad? If you started to feel bad in summer then

> mold is likely as it can go dormant in dry cool

> time of year and be activated by summer humidity,

> any humidity that is over 50%. It could also be

> that they aren't moldy but toxic and your body

> just tolerated the toxins for awhile. Body has

> an ability to withstand a certain amount of

> toxins but when we get too many accumulated over

> time, our body can't get rid of them anymore and

> we become ill from them. However given your

> description I would guess moldy and humidity of

> summer activated mold spores to start to multiple

> and also produce toxins, both.

>

> --- shybasset <shybasset@...> wrote:

>

> > didn't come up////I sure wished you lived in my

> > city! BIG TIME

> > QUESTION....WHY.....did it take six months!!!!

> > for this carpet or

> > mold in carpet to start gasing off(liv

>