Re: Heathy Indoor Air. (toxic homes and levels of toxin detection possible)

[Guest guest]

In our particular case, the root cause was perched water on the

hardpan soil under the house, which brought something with it as it

wicked and evaporated its way into the house, both through the slab

and through cracks in the slab. The mold work was done by Dr. Chin

Yang's lab, and was extremely valuable but in the end said that mold

was not the problem. We cut open a number of walls, found nothing

visible, and the samples agreed. Correcting the drainage problem

stopped the moisture coming into the house, and removing our

belongings got rid of the accumulated contaminants (we had already

replaced carpet with hard surface floors). We sold the house with a

disclosure to a real estate professional who lived there with his

family for 5 years, without problems, before moving on.

If I had to speculate now -- or could turn back the clock and do

that last few thousand dollars of testing -- I would analyze the

perched water for metal salts, and look closer at the efflourescence

on the garage floor to see if something unusual was being leached

from the slab (all the concrete for stemwalls, slab, and garage

floor would likely have been poured on the same day).

Steve Chalmers

stevec@...

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> >> I'm new to the group but am with a public company that does

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> > generation of inspectors so to say. A home or business will be

> > inspected and when healthy displays the attached seal. I am

proud to

> > post the Healthy Home Assurance Certification on my home.

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> >> Company website www.espusa.net or number

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