Finding mold in a home inspection is certainly not going to make
for pleasant day. Just how unpleasant your day has just become can
vary from inconvenient to disastrous. There are just too many
variables on what the home inspection may reveal about your mold
issues. Of course the ideal situation is to not have any mold to be
found when the home inspection is done.
Although it may seem otherwise mold does not just magically
materialize. It can be in different colors and look powdery, slimy
or furry with or without any odor. Before mold dies, it puts out
little spores waiting for better times (at least as far as the mold
is concerned.) These little spores can lie dormant, even in
sunlight. They really like to live in dust. What the sport is
waiting for is water. Add a little food and mold, along with its
cousin mildew are off to the races.
A favorite food source for mold is processed wood products
together with humidity and reasonable warm temperatures. Therefore,
examples would include paper, the wood frame, and/or siding of the
house, or even the paper coating on drywall. Since the house tends
to stand up better when it has building materials, it's difficult to
get rid of the wood in the home. And since the spores are part of
the planet, we can't get rid of them. That leaves us with
controlling water....
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