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Can anyone tell me if someone in WV inspects homes for mold? In North Central WV prefered?
Is this something you can do yourself? I've seen the kits at Ace. How accurate are they?
I think we have a mold problem. We've had headaches, sore throats, stuffy noses since december. Doc thinks it's some kind of allergy. Probably mold. This house is so old, it wouldn't surprise me.
I'm ready to move out into a tent. When I'm away from home out of town for a few days, my symptoms get better. Get worse when I get back home.
I know in Morgantown there is 2 or 3 of them. Son's trailer flooded and we had a guy scheduled to come (ended up canceling and got son a new place).
Can't remember the name. Had gotten the names out of the phone book. Here are a couple from search of net.
Advo-Tec Engineering Service LLC
Cira & Assoc Consulting
Can anyone tell me if someone in WV inspects homes for mold? In North Central WV prefered?
Is this something you can do yourself? I've seen the kits at Ace. How accurate are they?
I think we have a mold problem. We've had headaches, sore throats, stuffy noses since december. Doc thinks it's some kind of allergy. Probably mold. This house is so old, it wouldn't surprise me.
I'm ready to move out into a tent. When I'm away from home out of town for a few days, my symptoms get better. Get worse when I get back home.
house forum had a pretty lengthy blog going on about mold abatement companies, and the whole issue of toxic mold. Upshot is there's little actual science behind the rumors, and you might wind up paying $$$$ for work you could have accomplished yourself economically.
Water problems, wherever they're at, need to be addressed first. Once that's squared away diluted household bleach sprayed on the area over a period of time will kill all of it. Any sign of where it might be coming from? Have y'all taken a peek in the attic or noticed any wet spots anywhere? Is the siding old?
Too labor intensive and the cost is prohibitive, at 4$ per 80 lb bag...
A watered concrete slush would work if enough height was available to do the work...3' or 4'.
Trough the concrete into one end of the crawlspace where it could be raked into place...then smoothed out with a 4' aluminum float.
Very tough job here....(you are saying, pour the quickcrete in dry and then water it to harden. Workable but costly unless the area is very small.
The real answer is to cover the crawlspace with stone, dig a sump hole at the low end and ditch to that pump...cover the stone with 6 mill plastic sheeting.
I guess the first thing I need to do is crawl under the house and see if it's wet. I can't put $10,000 into an old yankee frame house that is going to fall over soon anyway. Some of the support beams under the house have already started to rot. We did have a water line break under the house 4 years ago. We cut the line and rerouted it.
I like the stone and 6mil sheeting idea. It's a very tight space in some areas. Only 1 foot high. Other parts are about 3.5 feet. If it's wet, that may be what we have to do.
house forum had a pretty lengthy blog going on about mold abatement companies, and the whole issue of toxic mold. Upshot is there's little actual science behind the rumors, and you might wind up paying $$$$ for work you could have accomplished yourself economically.
Water problems, wherever they're at, need to be addressed first. Once that's squared away diluted household bleach sprayed on the area over a period of time will kill all of it. Any sign of where it might be coming from? Have y'all taken a peek in the attic or noticed any wet spots anywhere? Is the siding old?
Yes, the siding is old, and the attic does leak. Part of the facia (sp/) board is rotting. One of the walls of the house is pulling away from the foundation. We had a contractor come look at the house a couple of years ago and he said it wasn't savable. We just need to keep it livable until we can afford to build a new one.
Jimminy shared, sounds like you should start building now. The plastic rolls are at lowes and home depot. 4mil might work, but 6 mil DK recommends- he knows better than I. Vapor barrier should help but it sounds like the house is swiss cheese. No amount of elbow grease or kits can get around leaky roof and moisture through siding. Any $$ you put into it would only be money taken away from a solid house. Maybe vinyl wallpaper if you can pick it up wholesale can keep things down?
Can anyone tell me if someone in WV inspects homes for mold? In North Central WV prefered?
Is this something you can do yourself? I've seen the kits at Ace. How accurate are they?
I think we have a mold problem. We've had headaches, sore throats, stuffy noses since december. Doc thinks it's some kind of allergy. Probably mold. This house is so old, it wouldn't surprise me.
I'm ready to move out into a tent. When I'm away from home out of town for a few days, my symptoms get better. Get worse when I get back home.
I know you can find professionals listed on the American Indoor Air Quality Council and the American Industrial Hygiene Association websites. It is a good source for inspectors and remediators that have been third-party recognized. (No - I don't work for either of them.)
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