Was being a little tongue in cheek there -- actually, I have suspected that mold is causing problems especially in my house for some time now, but don't really have a clue what to do about it.
I use a steam humidifier, so that should at least help prevent it at least from that source, and I've used the mold test kits you can get from Home Depot, grew all sorts of interesting stuff in the agar, but their analysis didn't have much to say. I would think that EIS would help kill mold that gets into your body, especially if you spray it, breathe it, etc. It's hard to know what effects mold may be having, or not. What are symptoms of mold overdoses? Dick ________________________________ From: Richard Goodwin <dickgoodwin2...@yahoo.com> To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, January 25, 2010 7:01:24 AM Subject: Re: CS>Off Topic Mold answers from Mike Part Two Either this guy is paranoid, or ultra sensitive, or onto something that might be relevant to everyone including us... ________________________________ From: "martsmai...@aol.com" <martsmai...@aol.com> To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, January 24, 2010 11:02:44 PM Subject: CS>Off Topic Mold answers from Mike Part Two Another thing I have found that is very important is to clean all the lint and dirt from your living area. Look under the bed and clean the dust bunnies each day. Get a moist sponge and run it along the window ledges. Clean your desk each day and any counter or flat surface where lint can gather. Vacuum the entire area daily. If you live in a house with a carpet, move. You need to find a new place with a hardwood or low voc tile floor that has a sealed basement that doesn't grow mold. This is not easy to find. Mold grows on the lint and fills the environment with spores. If your body uses all its resources to fight the mold when you are at home, there is very little left to handle the spores in the car. It is important to realize the biggest source of spores is the bedding you use each night. Mold grows in the cotton and polyester fibres, and you breath the spores in for eight hours. Then your body has to spend the rest of the day trying to get rid of them. I have tried many different ways of killing the spores in bedding. They do not work. The spores are invulnerable to any household chemical or processing temperature you can use without destroying the fabric. About the only thing I have found that partially works is to wash the bedding each day using a cup of fresh bleach in the tub at the start of the wash cycle. Use the minimum amount of soap that will still make a few bubbles. I use about a teaspoon in my Kenmore HE3 front loader. The reason for using an extremely small amount of soap is to minimize the lint generated in the fabric. This goes everywhere and soon starts growing mold. I am working on a machine using ozone to kill the spores. This is normally a serious problem since ozone generators do not work when the humidity is high or in high room temperatures. But I think I have found a solution to the problem and will let you know if it works as well as I think it will. Finally, you can mount a high efficiency furnace filter on the back of a 20 inch box fan and turn the fan on low speed. The filter will slow the airflow down to the point where the propeller ceases to function as an airfoil. But it will act as a paddle and spray air out the sides of the case. This is sufficient for a bit of new air to enter the filter. The problem is the filter doesn't do a good job on the tiny spores that cause the greatest problems. I bought two of the professional version of the Dylos Air Quality Monitors to monitor the spore count. I have tried a number of different vendor's filters, and most of them simply do not work. The best I found was the 3M Filtret 9500. This costs around $30.00, but the Dylos shows only gets about half the spores. So you need to use it in a closed room where it can recirculate the air and get a few more spores on each pass. The next problem is the filter doesn't last very long. It starts to pick up lint from the air which collects on the filter. Soon it starts growing mold. Now, instead of filtering the spores from the air, it becomes a spore generator. After a few days, you have to discard the filter and buy a new one. This gets very expensive. I have tried a number of ways of filtering the air using electrostatic fields from dual polarity high voltage generators. The high voltage causes a few major problems. Dirt collects in the housing and causes the system to arc over. The negative HV generator is not designed to handle arcovers, and it is quickly destroyed. The next problem is humidity. When it is hot and humid outside, moisture collects on the housing and causes severe problems with arcover. I may have found a solution to this problem and I am in the process of building a system to try it. I will let you know if it works. Regards, Mike P.S. This information may be of interest to others in the list. If it is OK with you, would you mind posting this reply to the group?
