As most of you know, we live in a lakefront cabin that was at one time a summer home. Our small “basement”, if you can even call it that, is a place that can get very damp because the water table is high. You can even find mushroom-type organisms growing on the walls at times, or out of cracks in the concrete floor. It needs regular cleaning to keep this under control.
It is also a place that can easily grow mold. So far, at least as far as I know and as far as our health indicates, we don’t have black mold, but I did have a friend who did. She had many mysterious symptoms and after a long time trying to find the cause, testing the air in her home showed high levels of black mold. Her entire family had to move from the home temporarily while a crew came in and did Black Mold Removal, which was quite an ordeal, but with professionals to do the job, she was able to save her home, move back in, and hasn’t suffered from symptoms since!
Click here to learn more about black mold…something that grows…but isn’t very pretty.
Next post, we’ll get back to our pretty plants and herbs 
Well, like I always say, a dry carpet is a happy family!
October 20th, 2008 at 1:24 pm