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Have you ever done a mold spore count in your house ? There's a hypothesis that, due to living in stick frame houses, a large part of the American population mi
by ragall 8mo ago
Have you ever done a mold spore count in your house ? There's a hypothesis that, due to living in stick frame houses, a large part of the American population might be suffering from a low dose chronic mold intoxication which shows up as a heightened state of inflammation.
> I may be biased, because I live in a city filled with houses over 100 years old, and we get incessant rain. They seem to hold up fine
I wouldn't be so sure.
- loandbehold 8mo agoIn places like Boston there are many 100+ years old stick frame houses. They hold up just fine. Properly built wooden houses don't get any mold.
- ragall 8mo agoVery few are properly built, especially in the last decades. Asymptotically to zero.
- loandbehold 8mo agoI have many friends who own houses built in the last 10 to 30 years ago. None of them have any issues with mold.
- ragall 8mo ago> None of them have any issues with mold. ... or so you think. Mold contamination is most of the times invisible and triggers long-term chronic intoxication. People only realise there's a problem if the mold starts growing on the walls, at which point it's too late.
- DANmode 8mo agoEven growing on the walls most people ignore it… I have family like this. Prolific recent media example: JK Rowling.
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- DANmode 8mo agoHold up ≠ remain a healthy place to breathe. ChangeTheAirFoundation.org
- ragall 8mo agoIt's funny that people born here don't know about it and I, an European buying a house and asking the workers that came for some initial renovations, found out. The wall guy said he often finds small amounts of mold when he's called to replace drywalls, but owners don't like to be told about it.