OT: mold inspection question

[Guest guest]

Hello all. We are moving to a new home and we are trying to hire

someone to do a mold inspection. Our agent says one company does a

tape sample and another company does something called Air-O-Cell,

which is $100 more. Does anyone have experience with mold

inspections? If so, could you please email me and pass along any info

you know! Thoughts? Input?

Thanks,

Kalis

[Guest guest]

We just did this - if you do the air sample they should do one in the middle

of the house and one at a place where they are measuring outside air coming

in so you can determine how much higher the mold content of the inside is vs

outside. The tape or swab will find out exactly which strains of mold exist

on surfaces which can help you determine how far you need to go in

remediating that mold. Our strain was not one of the 'toxic' kinds so I

decided to take care of cleanup myself using a bleach solution and an R-95

air mask and hepa vaccume to 'scrub' the air of any mold spores that may get

loose during cleaning, but they are mush less likely to fly when wet... The

bottom line with mold though is you can't get rid of it 100% and it will

come back if you don't solve the reason why the moisture is there, for us

that means we need to remove a few large trees who's roots are causing the

land to shift and we need to relay the land so that water flows around and

away from the house instead of underneath.

You can go to www.cal-iaq.org for more info...

HTH,

near LAX

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> Hello all. We are moving to a new home and we are trying to hire

> someone to do a mold inspection. Our agent says one company does a

> tape sample and another company does something called Air-O-Cell,

> which is $100 more. Does anyone have experience with mold

> inspections? If so, could you please email me and pass along any info

> you know! Thoughts? Input?

>

> Thanks,

> Kalis

> .

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

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We use Larry Gust to do an inspection of our house, he seemed quite

thorough. Check out the 2 web sites below they are good sources of

information.

Hope this helps,

Nora

http://www.healbuildings.com/index.html

http://moldwarriors.com/

> Hello all. We are moving to a new home and we are trying to hire

> someone to do a mold inspection. Our agent says one company does a

> tape sample and another company does something called Air-O-Cell,

> which is $100 more. Does anyone have experience with mold

> inspections? If so, could you please email me and pass along any info

> you know! Thoughts? Input?

>

> Thanks,

> Kalis

>

>

>

Nora Middleton

tikigal@...