5 Reasons To Dehumidify Your Basement With A Basement Dehumidifier

Here are 5 reasons why you should dehumidifier your basement with a basement dehumidifier.  They are serious so pay attention as you too will suffer from these affect if you do not.

1.  To kill mold before it has a chance to grow by cutting off humidity.

2.  Basements are below grade and are wet, dark and damp offering mold a perfect places to grow.

3.  Mold grows in the basement on any porous and non- porous surface.  When you open the basement door it spreads through the house.  It is invisible in the air so you won't notice until it starts to smell and stink like mold.

4.  Mold exposure affects the health of everyone in the house.  Some get hit harder then others.  Healthy people feel lousy around mold but recover once out of the mold.  However, if you never leave the house, you are constantly exposed.  Mold triggers:  asthma, allergies, mold allergies, biotoxic reaction to mold which means that the untreated mold patient is constantly struggling with a worsening mold reaction.  This person lacks the immune response to create antibodies to kill mold.  Other problems:  trouble thinking, memory problems, headaches which can be severe, body aches and pains.  To read more check out the home page:  Can Mold Destroy Your Health?

5.  Humidity causes chemical off-gassing.  Sounds really nasty.  Well it is. Pretty much everything you own has chemicals leaching out of those items with high humidity:  carpeting, furniture, make-up, hobby supplies, construction materials, paints, etc.  Some these items contain known carcinogens:  VOCs  Volatile Organic Compounds;  Toluene, Formaldehyde, Radon, the many carcinogens in cigarette smoke, styrene used in making plastic and more.  Just to give you an idea why use of dehumidifiers are necessary especially in the basement.  Air Conditioners also dehumidify the air. However, too many folks turn them off to save money.  http://www.stopmoldcold.com/behealthy

                         

4 Must Steps To Kill And Prevent Mold

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 There are 4 absolutely essential steps that every homeowner should take to kill mold in their house.  Mold affects the health of everyone in the house.  If you have allergies, mold allergies, asthma or any other respiratory condition and want to breathe better of feel better then these steps are for you.  Read and take action.

1.  Use a dehumidifier for basement.  Basement dehumidifiers are made to handle the capacity or square footage of your basement.  The goal is to lower humidity to around 50%. Figure out the square footage of your basement and then make the purchase.  Consider how cold your basement gets as there are different temperatures where individual dehumidifiers will freeze up.  Energy efficiency is another must to consider.  Mold needs it to be on the damp side to grow.  Mold needs warm, dark and damp.  Basements are usually where mold originates.  

2.  Use allergy air purifiers throughout the house.  Allergy air purifiers scrub the air of mold and other biological contaminants.  These are the nasties we all want to get rid of:  bacteria, germs, viruses, fungi (mold). pollen, and chemicals.  The air is drawn into the machine in caught in the hepa filter.  Hepa filtration is 99.97% effective in capturing contaminants like mold.  If you look into the air, you will see nothing floating.  However, mold is invisible.  There are many features that can be purchased in an allergy air purifier. Different Types Of Allergy Air Purifiers/Components: You Must Read This

3.  Clean every surface in the house with Borax or some green mold cleaning solution.  I use Borax as it is easy on the lungs and is effective at killing mold.  Green means you develop the least reaction.  Every surface must be cleaned because mold is capable of traveling through the house.  This ensures that mold is killed on every surface.  Now this means every thing you owned will have mold killed.  Throw out any obvious moldy object like a cardboard box in the basement or wood that is black.  Anything porous in a wet basement is likely to be moldy.  Carpeting in the basement must be pitched.

4.  Hepa vacuum every surface to finish killing mold.  Dead mold spores although killed still evoke a mold response and must be captured by hepa filtration in a quality hepa vacuum.  Hepa vacuum often as mold is always in the house and is capable of growing in dirt.  A quality hepa vacuum should not spew dirt into the air.  If using a cleanable hepa filter, clean it outside or you will be defeating the purpose.

Since many mold allergy, asthma, allergy folks have breathing issues, it is vital that there is no strong odors in the air.  use of perfumes, laundry detergents, cleaning products etc with strong scents can cause asthma attacks.  Think through what you are going to do. Even paint will evoke a response.  Air out the area and keep the asthmatic out of the room.  If you have small children or infants, do not expose young delicate lungs to any strong odors.

So there you have the 4 vital steps to kill mold.  These steps are also the ones continuously done to prevent mold.  Live healthy... Be happy.  You can visit my http://www.stopmoldcold.com/behealthy for more information and purchase allergy air purifiers, basement dehumidifiers, hepa vacuums.

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6 Ways To Tell There Is Mold Present

 If you are like many people who suffer from mold allergies, biotoxic reaction to mold, or want general health, here are some things to look for.

1.  You can smell it:  Watch out if you can smell it.  It could be something rotting in the fridge thrown into the garbage or can be the furniture in the living room and has spread throughout the house.

2.  Mold Exposure Symptoms:   allergy like symptoms:  body aches and pains, eyes itch, lungs feel tight or asthma attack, headaches, fatigue, mold rash and more.  

3.  No dehumdifier running in basement.  If it is spring or the more humid months, a basement dehumdifier is an absolute must.

4.  Basement is wet.  Mold grows in warm, dark and damp places with the basement being one of the most ideal spots fir mold growth.

5.  See black, white, yellow, green or black on the walls, floor, ceilings.  Mold growth can grow on porous or non- porous materials like cardboard, wood, paper, furniture and more.

6.  Folks living there are constantly sick with mold symptoms. They think that they have allergies but have not been diagnosed.  While there can be reasons why people are sick other than mold, mold illness is often undiagnosed despite the volumes of medical research. Many doctors reject that there is something other than mold allergies and they so not see mold as  a problem today. Special testing is required to identify biotoxic reaction to mold.  If you have mold allergies, you can be tested and the tests can be wrong.  Allergists admit that this can be a problem.  Here again are some symptoms:  fatigue, headaches which can be severe, you react each time you visit with symptoms, tight chest or asthma attack, problems with mental cognition like the ability to finish a sentence, memory problems and more. 

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You learn what to avoid and hopefully decide to make you home mold free as possible.  Click on the following links and learn more.

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If you could live in a house where the air was cleaned of 99.97% of mold, germs, bacteria, pollen, viruses and more would you do it?  Is this clean air important to the development of your baby's lungs?  Will breathing clean air possibly prevent asthma?  The amazing thing is that there is a way to clean indoor air.  It is not complicated.  It's simple.

  Allergy air purifiers have been around for some time.  They are usually sold to people with asthma, allergies, and breathing problems.  Clean air is good for everyone.  I want them and have them in my house for everyone's benefit.  Does it really matter if you are "healthy"?  If you live in the indoor air pollution that we do, will you stay healthy?  No you won't.  That is why you need to purchase and constantly run allergy air purifiers in your home.  They actively kill mold, germs, viruses, bacteria, pollen and are capable of removing chemicals from the air.  (Wow, just maybe I won't get cancer from the carpeting I own!) They are 99.97% efficient. This is a great buy for people who want to work at and staying healthy.    Who would consciously want to live with mold, germs, bacteria, viruses and chemicals attacking your body every day?  Hey, we have so much at our disposal to be healthy today.   

    In another installment, we will look at different features an allergy air purifier can include.  For now, it is an absolute must that an allergy air purifier have hepa filtration.  This is what works to catch mold, germs viruses, etc and clean the air of 99.97% of the bad stuff.  Yet, you can a fully loaded allergy air purifiers that do even more!

    This is just great news.  Living in clean air.  Yes you should definitely open your windows because the air outside is far less polluted.  And while you are at it, let some sunshine into the house.  Mold does not grow in sunlight.         

                                                   

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Can Mold Exposure Cause Migraines?

Bet you never really connected that mold exposure could cause migraines.  We know that mold allergies can cause sinus pressure and certainly headaches, aches and pains but migraines.? If you are one of the 25% that have a biotoxic reaction to mold, which means your body does not produce antibodies to kill mold toxins, you can have headaches that are so bad that they are misconstrued as migraines according to Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker, mold specialist and researcher. Really don't care whether you call them nasty boy headaches migraines or not, but from personal experience, I do.  

    How does this happen?  Quite simply, these mold toxins move freely through the body including having the ability to pass the blood brain barrier and wreak havoc on the brain.  Not only can you have severe headaches but also bleeding on the brain if continued to have mold exposure.  

   So what can you so if you are in these shoes?  First you need to go to a mold doctor like Shoemaker and see through scientific testing and a rather intensive protocol and see if that is the issue. Most doctors and specialists don't agree with this 21st century diagnosis despite over1,000 research documents that prove so.  If so, you really need to kill mold in your house and then take measures to prevent mold.  Constant mold exposure is good for no one.  

   Leaks must be immediately repaired.  Do not give mold what it thrives on:  moisture and humidity. If you do not have a basement dehumidifier running, get one and turn it on to decrease humidity to around 50%.  Mold loves dark, damp places and is found mostly in basements for starters. Then place allergy air purifiers throughout the house to snatch mold and effectively kill mold because it is trapped in the HEPA filter.  Wipe everything down with Borax and then Hepa vacuum all surfaces. 

   In the meantime, get treated for the nasty headaches.  They are no fun.  Because mold exposure can interferes with concentration, memory also, it is all the more important to kill mold.  These symptoms come along with the headaches.  Guess the good news is that no, you are not going senile! Even if you do not have these symptoms, it is not a good idea to expose your family to mold.  Could mold exposure cause Alzheimer's; don't know?  But there is still a lot of learning to be accomplished in medicine.

Migraines Are No Fun!

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Do You Feel Lousy All The Time?

  Some people consider it ‘Yuppie Syndrome” or maybe you work too many hours, but you never really feel rested and you are always tired.  There is a need to get to the bottom of this.  Will the fatigue get worse with age?  Wow that would really stink.  What causes chronic fatigue?  Let’s look at a few possibilities that you should consider.

     Have allergies?  Allergies like mold allergies, dirt mite allergies and just allergies can drain you of your energy.  There is a battle going on inside.  It is important to treat the allergies but go further.  Those allergens and dirt mites need to be gone from your house.  To do that, use a dehumidifier in the basement to stop humdity and mold from growing.  Mold is a trigger for allergies and mold allergies and can trigger asthma attacks.  High humidity can also cause the dirt mite population to grow. 

     Clean the air of pollen.  You do that by using allergy air purifiers throughout the house.  Docs often tell you to run them in the bedroom which is certainly a idea.  But you have mold and pollen all through your house.  Use allergy air purifiers according to the square footage of your house.

    Last step.  Clean everything with Borax. Thorough cleaning is always beneficial. Use a hepa vacuum to clean up dead mold spores and suck up pollen left on surfaces.  Always close windows at night as that is when pollen count increases.

    See if you feel better then.  If not keep going to see if your fatigue is the result of some underlying condition. Make sure that you are eating fairly often.  Healthy meals certainly make a difference if eaten through the day.  And don’t eat too much as that makes anyone fatigued.  Lots of folks have terrible eating habits that will certainly lead to fatigue.

   Sleep at regular intervals.  Figure out how much sleep you need and don’t over do it.  Everyone has a sleeping pattern.  Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep.  The Lord told us to take a Sabbath.  Well, do you?  Are you always doing something 7 days a week.  You need to chill out on that one day. It heals and refreshes you.  Read the Bible”  Proverbs are great.  Poetry or engage in meaningful conversation with a spouse or friend.  Reduce stress by getting some exercise.

     Hope this helps.  The tips to have the dehumidifiers, allergy air purifiers and hepa vacuum are a must for every home. Mold exposure is not good for the health of anyone. To kill and prevent mold also decreases pollen and dirt mites.

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    Hope you figure out the source of your fatigue.  Live healthy…Be happy!

Too Many People Dying Young

  Now what does that mean?  When you pick up the paper how many people are in the obituaries at the age of 40 or 50 or so?  More than should be.  At least 10% or more in my area.  You do not know because of the HIPPA laws.  Know a health professional working on a cancer unit and he was taken back by how many people were in their 40's and 50's dying of cancer.  The question is how did they get there? Were they doomed by poor genetics or can you alter the path of genetics and what is the key to doing that?

    Lots of questions but where are the answers and why does medicine not seem like it is in a hurry to find out why.  Don't get me wrong.  Where would we all be without the wonders of medicine.  I personally would be dead for many reasons.  I take life saving medicines that do just that: save my life on a daily basis.

     How can you improve your overall health so that cancer, heart attack, stroke or some other horrible life robbing disease does not come your way?  A balanced life of good diet, exercise, stress coping, inspiration, and a positive outlook go a long way.  

    Now to go further.  How can you make your house healthy so you will stay healthy.  Go upstairs into the bathroom and count the number of shampoos, hair products, dental products, air fresheners etc all chemicals and how many of them really necessary.  Under your sink somewhere are how many cleaning products?  What about wall to wall carpeting which contains VOCs:  Volatile Organic Compounds:  cyclohexene,toluene, styrene which are use to stain proof and contained in the latex backing.  Some of these compounds are either known carcinogens or suspected.  This research comes from The Johns Hopkins Magazine Article:  "Home Sick Home"  September, 2000.  In the early 1990's USC did research on 362 homes and found DDT in the carpeting of 90 homes.  I guess we better start doing a better job of wiping our feet on the little rug in the entrance way.

   There is so much more in this article but I do not want to overwhelm you.  I prefer and use hardwood flooring because my husband noticed a dramatic improvement in my health after removing carpeting.  Healthy carpeting free of these chemicals is very expensive.  If you are going to go with carpeting, it is suggested by this article to leave the windows open, use fans to pull out the VOC off-gassing which occurs  a lot of which occurs when installed and let the gasses literally go out the window.  Deep cleaning your carpets is necessary as well as the use of dehumidifiers to keep chemical off gassing from occurring in general in your house.  Start with a dehumidifier for basement and dehumidify any other area.

    Since 90% of time is spent indoors, make sure it is healthy air as possible.  Open the windows when you can.  Run allergy air purifiers, period.  They kill mold, pull in biological contaminants like germs, bacteria, viruses, pollen, and if have activated charcoal aggravating fumes and chemicals.  Read more at: Warning: Your House Is Very Polluted!  

Imagine the battles of these loved ones with cancer.

Spring Cleaning Done To Kill Mold, Mildew and Indoor Air Pollution:

Time to do the neverending list of spring cleaning chores.  Hopefully on the list 1st is airing out the house.  Open all the windows and let sun and fresh air in.  Depending on where you are living of course.  If the humdity is high already then leave the windows closed but leave in some sun anyway.  Mold does not grow in sunlight.

    The fresh air coming from outside is much less polluted then that chemical, biological congtmainated air in the house. Sit outside a bit and maybe doink around the yard and get some fresh air yourself.  Plan what you are going to plant to further clean the air. While you are outside, rake the rest of the leaves away from the foundation of your home as they will get moldy and blow into the house.  Dump any standing water.  Make sure those gutters are clean and get the one that loves working on the roof to inspect it.  Spring can mean high winds and roof damage.  That is for sure, ownining a home is constant work.

   Now for the inside.  Go through every room and clean like a real machine.  Wipe down all the walls with Borax mixture or just Borax and a bit of dishsoap.  When dry, hepa vacuum all surfaces even the ceiling and get all those dirt blobs hanging from the ceiling you cannot reach.  A commercial hepa vacuum is great for standing on ladders and cleaning high ceilings.  Pitch the unnecessary stuff because you will have to clean it and that is just more work.  Spring pitching.  Have a Goodwill box to go.  Mine is full and I am ready to start another one.

   Make sure the basement has the dehumdifier for basement running.  If the temperature is too low at night you may need a bit of heat at night.  Clean the basement the same way.  Through out any porous materials like paper and cardboard boxes.  No carpeting as there is no way to keep it from getting moldy.

    Keep the allergy air purifiers running and make sure the filters are cleaned or replaced of needed.  

     Look for anything that is leaking and always take care of that before you start cleaning.  Keep your house clean once you have done this in every room.  This is a lot but makes a big difference over your general health.

     Consider if you need to run any more dehumdifiers.  Do this by making sure that the humdity is below 50%.  Use a hygormeter.  They are cheap to buy.

    If you have any questions, shoot me an e-mail at stopmoldcold@gmail.com

have a good one.  See You tomorrow.

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