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Barack Obama Elementary School. Haha
Mold itself seems far moar aggressive these days.Amazing how many schools are closed due to mold....
Mold itself seems far moar aggressive these days.
I think back to my parents' home. They bought it in the early 1960s, in Cleveland - a moderate-but-humid climate. It wasn't air-conditioned - few homes were, back then. The normal features, gas heating, ventilated attic.
Summers were just so humid and thick you'd melt. Those were still the days that richer families would just relocate to mountains or lake regions (not Lake Erie, which was filthy in those years) and stay the summer. Pops would go back during the week to work, but the family would stay at Findlay Lake, fifty miles away, or up in the retreat, down in West Virginia or even up in Canada.
That's how it was, and with all that humidity, mold wasn't really even a problem. It got damp enough in the house that the wallpaper on the drywall in the bathroom lifted off at the corners...but, no mold.
Fast-forward 45 years. I wound up with the house after my mother's death. It had been air-conditioned 25 years...and shortly after my mother passed away, the AC died, also. By this time I was living in it - all alone. Working 72 hours a week...we don't need no air-conditioning...I set up a bed in the basement to sleep, and prepared to tough it out until the estate was settled.
The mold attacked like a Friday-Night horror show. Hoe-LEE, it grew so fast.
Mold abatement in the attic, and a fast replacement of the house air conditioning, stopped that...but, where did THAT come from?
It wasn't just that house, either. Here, I'm a thousand miles away in an apartment built in the 1990s. Not air-conditioned. Now I have a lot of glass, and it sweats in the winter. That's how metal-framed windows ARE.
What was never an issue, but now is, is how the MOLD will grow on even the metal, in the tracks, on the sills, even. I have a spray bottle filled with 10-percent chlorine bleach, and I have to squirt down the window peripherals once a week.
How did we get here?
leftovers from last monthIs that your breakfast?
It looks moldy.leftovers from last month