Cob: Mold in Home

Wed Jun 4 21:25:32 CDT 2003

Mike

mike swink wrote:

> It seems when moisture gets into house from outside.

Not necessarily from the outside.  Bathrooms and utility rooms can 
generate enough moisture I would think.

>  I believe if water is extracted out of the walls or other material 
> and one is the dryness is restored that the bacterial will stop.If I 
> am wrong in this please tell me.
>
That sounds right to me.   I use the good molds for fermenting foods and 
it will dry out and go into a spore like state, it would flourish and 
multiply in that state.  Molds also need some kind of food, besides the 
moisture.   I'm not up on what molds use for growing, but water alone 
doesn't seem like enough.   I suppose the bad mold gets enough nutrients 
for itself from particles in the air.

> Also I would think cardboard,sawdust,celluse etc would all be safe 
> when it is inside material.

That sounds right to me.   I am taking the word "material" here to mean 
something like a clay slurry or some kind of coating.

Darel
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