Re: finding mould in your house, what about plants?

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I find the worst places in my flat for mould are my living room and bedroom window frames and blinds. My bedroom because I have an ensuite, whcih has the nice shower (the one in the main bathroom isn't so good, and a lot smaller) and I'm really bad at remembering to leave the door shut after I've had a shower, and my living room from cooking, as I'm also really bad at remembering to put the extractor fan on (my kitchen and living room is one big room), and drying clothes as it's the warmest room in my flat. I've recently bleached off as much mould as I can find, and as some of my clothes from the set of drawers in my bedroom smell a bit musty, I'm going to have to take the drawers out so I can move the frame to check behind that too.JennTha can tek t'lass outta Yorkshire...! Don't brand me, don't classify me, don't tell me what to wear. I'll be who I want to be, and I'm proud to be me.

Subject: Re: finding mold in your house, what about plants?To: "asthma " <asthma >Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 12:56 PM

Thank you for the suggestions.

I of course was expecting an expert who find some mold maybe in a wall or something.

Quite honestly my house is too big for me to keep up with this new illness.

I keep my air temp at 69 to 72 degrees, and my humidity less than 50%

As far as my house. . . people say . . . I keep things too clean.

But I think that maybe partially from my having dustmite allergies and not knowing.

Of course that doesn't mean there can't be something I am missing.

I will check all corners and behind things and clean everthing really well.

I did have a tree that was beautiful. Then I found my kids over watered it and was water logged

and almost died. I dried it out and repotted it. Do you think that might have some kind of nasty mold?

Lynne

To: "asthma " <asthma >Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 7:36 AMSubject: Re: finding mold in your house

An expert won't do you much good unless you suspect a very serious problem inside walls or something.

Generally allergic mold control consists of good house keeping and controlling household humidity. Don't allow mold to grow in the bathroom or kitchen. Look out for strings of stuff growing in your lamps and in corners, and behind the furniture. Check under the refrigerator and the refrigerator drip pan. That sort of thing.

Yours,

Dora

To: asthma Sent: Monday, September 5, 2011 10:34 PMSubject: finding mold in your house

Does anyone know if there are experts that can find all of the mold in your home? I am allergic to Cladosporium. Maybe there is some somewhere and I don't know about it.Any ideas or info will be appreciated.Lynne

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, I found out that I had mold coming in through the water pipes in my commode. I looked in my tank on the back of the commode, and there was all of this black oily stuff, at first I thought it was oil of some sort. One of my neighbors told me, no it was mold. I am allergic to mold. So what I found out to do was get those huge round white, Clorox tabs and put one of them in the bottom of my commode tank, and after a while my mold pretty much disappeared, but you have to keep one in there all of the time. I was getting mold in the commode bowl, and it would come up around the rim, those little black spots, were fungus, no wonder I have been so sick in this apt. What a difference this made. The only other place I get mold is in the kitchen, at the seam where the kitchen

back splash meets the top of the sink counter, directly behind the faucet, so I routinely use a q-tip, and soak the area with straight Clorox. I also wash my whole sink top and counters with a bleach solution of whatever dish soap I happen to being using, water, and clorox, pretty much keeps it under control.To: asthma Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 2:16 PMSubject: Re: finding mould in your house, what about plants?

I find the worst places in my flat for mould are my living room and bedroom window frames and blinds. My bedroom because I have an ensuite, whcih has the nice shower (the one in the main bathroom isn't so good, and a lot smaller) and I'm really bad at remembering to leave the door shut after I've had a shower, and my living room from cooking, as I'm also really bad at remembering to put the extractor fan on (my kitchen and living room is one big room), and drying clothes as it's the warmest room in my flat. I've recently bleached off as much mould as I can find, and as some of my clothes from the set of drawers in my bedroom smell a bit musty, I'm going to have to take the drawers out so I can move the frame to check behind that too.JennTha can tek t'lass outta Yorkshire...! Don't brand me, don't classify me, don't tell me what to wear. I'll be who I want to be, and I'm proud to be me.

Subject: Re: finding mold in your house, what about plants?To: "asthma " <asthma >Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 12:56 PM

Thank you for the suggestions.

I of course was expecting an expert who find some mold maybe in a wall or something.

Quite honestly my house is too big for me to keep up with this new illness.

I keep my air temp at 69 to 72 degrees, and my humidity less than 50%

As far as my house. . . people say . . . I keep things too clean.

But I think that maybe partially from my having dustmite allergies and not knowing.

Of course that doesn't mean there can't be something I am missing.

I will check all corners and behind things and clean everthing really well.

I did have a tree that was beautiful. Then I found my kids over watered it and was water logged

and almost died. I dried it out and repotted it. Do you think that might have some kind of nasty mold?

Lynne

To: "asthma " <asthma >Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 7:36 AMSubject: Re: finding mold in your house

An expert won't do you much good unless you suspect a very serious problem inside walls or something.

Generally allergic mold control consists of good house keeping and controlling household humidity. Don't allow mold to grow in the bathroom or kitchen. Look out for strings of stuff growing in your lamps and in corners, and behind the furniture. Check under the refrigerator and the refrigerator drip pan. That sort of thing.

Yours,

Dora

To: asthma Sent: Monday, September 5, 2011 10:34 PMSubject: finding mold in your house

Does anyone know if there are experts that can find all of the mold in your home? I am allergic to Cladosporium. Maybe there is some somewhere and I don't know about it.Any ideas or info will be appreciated.Lynne

[Guest guest]

, I also found mold in a plant I had in the living room, right on top of my television stand. It was a violet plant, so beautiful. But, it was right where my air conditioning unit blew the cold air. Needless to say it eventually killed the plant, but, I was cleaning, the stand, and checking the plant for any mites or anything like that, and there was mold on top of the plant. It was surprising being that I water the plant from the bottom, but, you are good to check the plant, especially the bottom of the plant, if you have a saucer, or whatever they call those things, a drip pan, maybe to catch excess water. willothewispl@....From: A Hill To: asthma Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 2:16 PMSubject: Re: finding mould in your house, what about plants?

I find the worst places in my flat for mould are my living room and bedroom window frames and blinds. My bedroom because I have an ensuite, whcih has the nice shower (the one in the main bathroom isn't so good, and a lot smaller) and I'm really bad at remembering to leave the door shut after I've had a shower, and my living room from cooking, as I'm also really bad at remembering to put the extractor fan on (my kitchen and living room is one big room), and drying clothes as it's the warmest room in my flat. I've recently bleached off as much mould as I can find, and as some of my clothes from the set of drawers in my bedroom smell a bit musty, I'm going to have to take the drawers out so I can move the frame to check behind that too.JennTha can tek t'lass outta Yorkshire...! Don't brand me, don't classify me, don't tell me what to wear. I'll be who I want to be, and I'm proud to be me.

Subject: Re: finding mold in your house, what about plants?To: "asthma " <asthma >Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 12:56 PM

Thank you for the suggestions.

I of course was expecting an expert who find some mold maybe in a wall or something.

Quite honestly my house is too big for me to keep up with this new illness.

I keep my air temp at 69 to 72 degrees, and my humidity less than 50%

As far as my house. . . people say . . . I keep things too clean.

But I think that maybe partially from my having dustmite allergies and not knowing.

Of course that doesn't mean there can't be something I am missing.

I will check all corners and behind things and clean everthing really well.

I did have a tree that was beautiful. Then I found my kids over watered it and was water logged

and almost died. I dried it out and repotted it. Do you think that might have some kind of nasty mold?

Lynne

To: "asthma " <asthma >Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 7:36 AMSubject: Re: finding mold in your house

An expert won't do you much good unless you suspect a very serious problem inside walls or something.

Generally allergic mold control consists of good house keeping and controlling household humidity. Don't allow mold to grow in the bathroom or kitchen. Look out for strings of stuff growing in your lamps and in corners, and behind the furniture. Check under the refrigerator and the refrigerator drip pan. That sort of thing.

Yours,

Dora

To: asthma Sent: Monday, September 5, 2011 10:34 PMSubject: finding mold in your house

Does anyone know if there are experts that can find all of the mold in your home? I am allergic to Cladosporium. Maybe there is some somewhere and I don't know about it.Any ideas or info will be appreciated.Lynne

[Guest guest]

I have always wondered about those ensuites, especially the ones with a huge walk in closet connected to the bathroom. I always think when I see one of those, what about the moisture going through the vents, or the walls, or in the air, what effect will that have on all of the clothing, and shoes, an leather jackets, or whatever is in this wonderful closet. Seems like a bad place to put the closet. Also I wonder how well they vent the ensuite, and If I built the home, or apt, I would want a vent fan in the bedroom and the closet also, to make sure to get rid of moist air. I have looked many apts over the past 10 or 15 years looking for apts, with friends or my son, and what I see is not enough venting, or some without windows all together, you always need to get some air in each room some way to

air them out, but, what I see a lot of today is just closed walls, even though there are laws covering the need for venting, an fans to relieve the rooms of the moist air. Things are not right here.To: asthma Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 2:16 PMSubject: Re: finding mould in your house, what about plants?

I find the worst places in my flat for mould are my living room and bedroom window frames and blinds. My bedroom because I have an ensuite, whcih has the nice shower (the one in the main bathroom isn't so good, and a lot smaller) and I'm really bad at remembering to leave the door shut after I've had a shower, and my living room from cooking, as I'm also really bad at remembering to put the extractor fan on (my kitchen and living room is one big room), and drying clothes as it's the warmest room in my flat. I've recently bleached off as much mould as I can find, and as some of my clothes from the set of drawers in my bedroom smell a bit musty, I'm going to have to take the drawers out so I can move the frame to check behind that too.JennTha can tek t'lass outta Yorkshire...! Don't brand me, don't classify me, don't tell me what to wear. I'll be who I want to be, and I'm proud to be me.

Subject: Re: finding mold in your house, what about plants?To: "asthma " <asthma >Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 12:56 PM

Thank you for the suggestions.

I of course was expecting an expert who find some mold maybe in a wall or something.

Quite honestly my house is too big for me to keep up with this new illness.

I keep my air temp at 69 to 72 degrees, and my humidity less than 50%

As far as my house. . . people say . . . I keep things too clean.

But I think that maybe partially from my having dustmite allergies and not knowing.

Of course that doesn't mean there can't be something I am missing.

I will check all corners and behind things and clean everthing really well.

I did have a tree that was beautiful. Then I found my kids over watered it and was water logged

and almost died. I dried it out and repotted it. Do you think that might have some kind of nasty mold?

Lynne

To: "asthma " <asthma >Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 7:36 AMSubject: Re: finding mold in your house

An expert won't do you much good unless you suspect a very serious problem inside walls or something.

Generally allergic mold control consists of good house keeping and controlling household humidity. Don't allow mold to grow in the bathroom or kitchen. Look out for strings of stuff growing in your lamps and in corners, and behind the furniture. Check under the refrigerator and the refrigerator drip pan. That sort of thing.

Yours,

Dora

To: asthma Sent: Monday, September 5, 2011 10:34 PMSubject: finding mold in your house

Does anyone know if there are experts that can find all of the mold in your home? I am allergic to Cladosporium. Maybe there is some somewhere and I don't know about it.Any ideas or info will be appreciated.Lynne

[Guest guest]

I don't have a window in my ensuite, but I do have an extractor fan - by law in the UK we have to have one or the other (or both). JennTha can tek t'lass outta Yorkshire...! Don't brand me, don't classify me, don't tell me what to wear. I'll be who I want to be, and I'm proud to be me.

Subject: Re: finding mold in your house, what about plants?To: "asthma " <asthma >Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 12:56 PM

Thank you for the suggestions.

I of course was expecting an expert who find some mold maybe in a wall or something.

Quite honestly my house is too big for me to keep up with this new illness.

I keep my air temp at 69 to 72 degrees, and my humidity less than 50%

As far as my house. . . people say . . . I keep things too clean.

But I think that maybe partially from my having dustmite allergies and not knowing.

Of course that doesn't mean there can't be something I am missing.

I will check all corners and behind things and clean everthing really well.

I did have a tree that was beautiful. Then I found my kids over watered it and was water logged

and almost died. I dried it out and repotted it. Do you think that might have some kind of nasty mold?

Lynne

To: "asthma " <asthma >Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 7:36 AMSubject: Re: finding mold in your house

An expert won't do you much good unless you suspect a very serious problem inside walls or something.

Generally allergic mold control consists of good house keeping and controlling household humidity. Don't allow mold to grow in the bathroom or kitchen. Look out for strings of stuff growing in your lamps and in corners, and behind the furniture. Check under the refrigerator and the refrigerator drip pan. That sort of thing.

Yours,

Dora

To: asthma Sent: Monday, September 5, 2011 10:34 PMSubject: finding mold in your house

Does anyone know if there are experts that can find all of the mold in your home? I am allergic to Cladosporium. Maybe there is some somewhere and I don't know about it.Any ideas or info will be appreciated.Lynne

[Guest guest]

That is what it is supposed to be, good that you have one. In my bathroom and kitchen there is a vent that supposedly draws things out, but, I don't think they work very well, and I am moving anyway, so I will make sure there is something in the next house or apt I live in.To: asthma Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 3:15 PMSubject: Re: finding mould in your house, what about plants?

I don't have a window in my ensuite, but I do have an extractor fan - by law in the UK we have to have one or the other (or both). JennTha can tek t'lass outta Yorkshire...! Don't brand me, don't classify me, don't tell me what to wear. I'll be who I want to be, and I'm proud to be me.

Subject: Re: finding mold in your house, what about plants?To: "asthma " <asthma >Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 12:56 PM

Thank you for the suggestions.

I of course was expecting an expert who find some mold maybe in a wall or something.

Quite honestly my house is too big for me to keep up with this new illness.

I keep my air temp at 69 to 72 degrees, and my humidity less than 50%

As far as my house. . . people say . . . I keep things too clean.

But I think that maybe partially from my having dustmite allergies and not knowing.

Of course that doesn't mean there can't be something I am missing.

I will check all corners and behind things and clean everthing really well.

I did have a tree that was beautiful. Then I found my kids over watered it and was water logged

and almost died. I dried it out and repotted it. Do you think that might have some kind of nasty mold?

Lynne

To: "asthma " <asthma >Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 7:36 AMSubject: Re: finding mold in your house

An expert won't do you much good unless you suspect a very serious problem inside walls or something.

Generally allergic mold control consists of good house keeping and controlling household humidity. Don't allow mold to grow in the bathroom or kitchen. Look out for strings of stuff growing in your lamps and in corners, and behind the furniture. Check under the refrigerator and the refrigerator drip pan. That sort of thing.

Yours,

Dora

To: asthma Sent: Monday, September 5, 2011 10:34 PMSubject: finding mold in your house

Does anyone know if there are experts that can find all of the mold in your home? I am allergic to Cladosporium. Maybe there is some somewhere and I don't know about it.Any ideas or info will be appreciated.Lynne