JJBIRISH wrote:
traveylin wrote:
About ten years ago, mold remediation and chronic illness was the very profitable new line of business for the housing in coastal Texas. Lawyers were obtaining 100000$ settlements and people were getting remodeling done on someone else s dime. Then one tiny change in the std house insurance policy cured all that illness overnight. House policies specifically excluded mold damage. The new line of business went away and people were cured of mold sensitivity within the next policy schedule.
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You should be more inclusive when making accusations about anyone…
So just what are you talking about, the people that bought homes in good faith, that were built with Chinese poison dry wall… whose insurance companies have dropped coverage or are dropping coverage for having the dry wall if a claim has been made… canceled the insurance if they moved out because of it and the house sits vacant…
Someone is responsible… the insurance companies, the builders, the drywall suppliers, the Chinese… pick whomever you want to blame, but the homeowner living with this is not the cause of any of it and for you to try to articulate that they are the problem, shows your ignorance in what these people face, or your involvement in the use of the poison drywall and point the finger elsewhere, looking for your out…
JJ, mold remediation intricacies happened before the Chinese drywall debacle. There was a landmark case in Texas involving a family that had mold issues in their house, nothing to do with the China stuff. They were awarded a huge amount of money and others hopped on the insurance payoff bandwagon. The bad news is that the word spread about toxic mold issues and that has devolved to most home owners thinking that any mold or mildew is toxic. That isn't the case but it will take years before reality swings back to make mold and mildew less of an issue.
My opinion is that we had mold and mildew in houses in some aspect, since we climbed into caves. There are a few things that will get rid of the problem, the most effective is ventilation. Another fun fact is that a mold spore is so small that in an average house, if dropped from the ceiling, may take 8 hrs. to reach the floor. This negates any use of a mold testing kit as results can't be accurate.
