So if mold is appearing in your basements, bathrooms, under carpeting, behind drywall, and where ever bathrooms are vented to, like attic spaces, dry it up and clean it up and you’ll be fine. All those damp warm spaces in your house are a perfect environment for mold to get a foothold. Keep that air conditioning running, and run that dehumidifier, and that will help you control the problem. Otherwise that mold will be feasting on the cellulose in your house, and might cause an annoyance or even a health issue down the road.

If you’re in California and suffering from mold, you might want to give us a call and see about getting an assessment from Byebyemold.

TWO MORE school closings due to mold.

First Stone Bank near Oconomowoc closed for mold and cleaning crews stayed on the job day and night until the mold was eradicated.

Now Oriole Lane Elementary in Mequon has been closed for the same reason. Classes have been cancelled and no date is set. The mold is attributed to a hot, muggy, moist, summer. 30 Wisconsin schools have been affected by mold, so far.

If you’re in California, you might want to give us a call and see about getting an assessment from Byebyemold.

The costs of remediating the toxic mold outbreak of a North Andover fire station have skyrocketed, in part due to the trailer rental ( $10,000 for two months, and $3,500 a month thereafter). If the Fire Department continues to be housed there through June, the temporary housing cost alone will be $55,000.

$600,000 was appropriated to make the Police and Fire Department buildings water tight. A third of that budget has been spent on replacing heating and air, generator repair and firefighter pay.

The repairs were originally estimated at $600,000. Budget costs are now expected to be $694,109. An additional $300,000 will be needed.

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Students will temporarily be relocated at either North Main Street School, South Main Street School or Washington Avenue School.

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Builders Installed Products of Manchester says that in addition to remediation, the attic insulation is also being improved, which will increase the heat barrier, and cause an energy savings in the future. The uninsulated conditions apparently caused”heat loss, ice damage, ice dams and large heating and cooling bills.”

Building Inspector and Code Enforcement Officer Paul Garand verifies that the wiring is being converted from residential to commercial

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This old mold/new mold situation somehow precipitated an in-house communication problem that led to the mold response not occurring in a timely fashion. One party thought the new mold was being taken care of in July; but the other thought it had already been taken care of. There’s a recording that makes the explanation sound a little fishy-you can hear it in the video. Please note that this is NOT a MOLE problem, or if it is, there is no other mention of moles anywhere. But that spelling is embedded in the video–so what can you do?

If you’re in California, you might want to give us a call and see about getting an assessment from Byebyemold.

If you’re in California, you might want to give us a call and see about getting an assessment from Byebyemold.

The Library.

St. Albans High School Library has visible mold eating the books. 10,060 of them. Apparently while the kids were away, the books had a moist and humid summer.

A maintenance crew has come in to clean the books and work on the ventilation. They are, ironically to say the least, replacing the fresh air “dampers.” The remediation crew will be putting air scrubbers in the hallway and taking measures that the mold stirred by the cleanup will have minimum effect on the rest of the building.

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Today’s increasing asthma rates are believed to be related to an increase in environmental exposures such as mold, moisture and other allergens.

The Head-off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana (HEAL) Project is a collaborative research project conducted by the Tulane University Health Sciences Center and the New Orleans Department of Health which is investigating these relationships.

If eligible for the research project, a study investigator will go to your home and take samples for mold and other indoor allergens. The results of this assessment will be provided to you.

The HEAL Asthma Counselor works with families selected for the project to reduce asthma symptoms, understand the nature of asthma and identify appropriate resources and access to healthcare for asthma. The Asthma Counselor can also give the family supplies and education to help reduce allergens in the home.

If eligible for the research project, your child will be given a full examination by a Pediatric Asthma Specialist. The exam will include allergy testing of your child for several allergens, including molds that are present in New Orleans post-Katrina.

The purpose of the project is to learn about the effects of mold and other indoor allergens on children with asthma in post-Katrina New Orleans. Another goal of the HEAL Project is to look at inherited differences in childrens response to mold and indoor allergens. The project is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), and the Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc. (MCAN). NIEHS and NCMHD are part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

HEAL Investigators:

• *Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH, Principal Investigator and Freeport McMoRan Chair of Environmental Policy, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
• *William Martin II, MD, Principal Investigator and Associate Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• *Herman Mitchell, PhD, Principal Investigator and Senior Research Scientist, Rho, Inc.
• *Kevin Stephens, Jr., MD, JD, Principal Investigator and Director, New Orleans Health Department
• Keith Bordelon, MSPH, HEAL Study Coordinator, Constella Group, LLC
• Patricia Chulada, PhD, MHS, Health Scientist Administrator, Program in Clinical Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• Richard Cohn, PhD, Vice President, Center for Health Research, Constella Group, LLC
• Jane El Dahr, MD, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Clinical Professor of Medicine; Head, Section of Pediatric Allergy/Immunology/Rheumatology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center
• Faye Grimsley, PhD, CIH, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
• Suzanne Kennedy, PhD, Research Scientist, Rho, Inc.
• Mosanda Mvula, MD, MPH, Chief, Division of Health Disparities, New Orleans Health Department
• Yvonne Sterling, RN, PhD, Professor of Nursing, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing
• Eleanor Thornton, MS, CHES, AE-C, President and CEO, Visionary Consulting Partners, LLC
• LuAnn White, PhD, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences; Director, Tulane Center for Applied Environmental Public Health, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

If you’re in California and think you may have a mold problem, you might want to give us a call and see about getting an assessment from Byebyemold.