4a. Re: Hot Attic

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Hi Jim,

That is what happened for sure. Fresh air intake without damper

exhausted (supposed to intake but without blower on probably

exhausted) to just one foot above ground, coming out top of basement

area. As soon as I shut them both, in less than 24 hours I was

feeling better and have remained that way since. Yes, humidity was

a huge problem. I could see house humidity go up and so shut blower

off at thermostat, but when I went down into basement, water was

dripping from fresh air intake. It was THAT damp!! So I went

outside and shut both openings off at the source. Oh well, doesn't

work in the cooling season. It worked great in the winter.

I didn't know that was American, if one is good, two would be

better. Seems to look that way with meal helpings I know. I'm not

guilty of that but it was an experiment.

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> Depending on the location of your fresh air intake, it could have

moved the balance point between inflow and outflow up or down along

the inside walls of your house. In the cooling season, if the

intake 'looked like' it were low down (a likely scenario), it would

have been a massive exhaust down low and the house would have sucked

very hard on the attic, bringing down all of the wonderful 'stuff'

up there into your breathing air indoors - not too smart. Why is it

that 'Americans' believe that if one intake helps, two will be

better - that is not the way most people think around the world,

where 'just right' in size is an accepted concept?. We Canadian

Americans often think that way too. We are becoming more US American

all the time.

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> By the way, the symptoms that you had remind me of massive mold

exposure to mold, something I experience when doing some house

investigations. When I am exposed to Stachybotrys chartarum, I also

cannot think straight for days, often missing days of productive

work. Yesterday I got a minor Stachy hit and I am as cranky as Hell!

Sorry about that!