Mold Prevention in Basements: What You Need to Do
During spring many folks move down to their basements after a hellish period of frigid winter colds that make basements almost inaccessible to many. Apart from stowed junk and all manner of odds and ends which might include dead cats and rats, this region of your home is also a high power manufacturing plant for mold. Mold is a terrible health hazard that unfortunately is sometimes ignored due to its relative but deceptively harmless presence. You can even ignore it if you are so inclined, but at a mighty risk to your health!
Severe hurricane conditions and endless rains provide the perfect ground for mold growth, especially now that summer is here and heat has replaced cold. In order to avoid the numerous health risks associated with mold and mildew, they are steps you need to take now for mold prevention especially its removal from the basement areas. This is one of the places where the mold and fungus brigade do troop from.
Call it a training camp, if you wish, because the basement is nearly a dark, warm and humid environment most of the times, and nothing provides the perfect conditions for a mold "manufactory" than this place. Various respiratory and physical ailments and deaths are attributed directly to the presence of molds in our living space. However, on this score experts still haven't played on the same pitch. While some say there is a linkage, others say the medical facts available don't support such suppositions.
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