Mold, Health Dept won't help?!
Question: We are renting a home, I am pregnant and have an 18 month old with asthma. I went to the Health Dept. because of the mold and they did not even take my name or anything. I explained the problem and they acted like it was not a big deal when I know our health is suffering. We are looking for another home but I do not want this home to be rented out to some other family until someone takes care of the mold. What do I do or who can help me get the Health Dept. to do something about it? We are already paying for the mold tests, shouldn't that be the landlord's responsiblity?
Answers: We are renting a home, I am pregnant and have an 18 month old with asthma. I went to the Health Dept. because of the mold and they did not even take my name or anything. I explained the problem and they acted like it was not a big deal when I know our health is suffering. We are looking for another home but I do not want this home to be rented out to some other family until someone takes care of the mold. What do I do or who can help me get the Health Dept. to do something about it? We are already paying for the mold tests, shouldn't that be the landlord's responsiblity?
WOW! it's such ashame people like James in the above post know very little about the real chronic health affects of toxic mold that millions have suffered with, people like James are the ones that become infected with mold illness due to the fact of lack of knowledge and it happens everyday, people like James that have lack of knowledge of what toxic mold can do will move into a new place or forget to fix a water leak,etc etc and end up a victim of mold illness... anyway...
What you need to do is call a certified mold professional or mold expert to come out and look at the damage and take air samples and do thermal imaging (a true mold professional or mold expert will have thermal imaging to see mold were the naked eye can't see it, if they do not than they are no true mold professional or expert) and also test to make sure the mold is toxic or not. This way you will have official prove of where the mold is and how the mold is getting there and you can take the next step to fix it or file a lawsuit depending on how the mold got there, if the mold got there in fault of the landlord or apt. complex they must fix the issue and if not depending on the way the law is written in the state you can file a lawsuit.
yes it should be his responsibility, get a pest/termite control buisness to come and check it. Where do you live, because some of this depends on state?
Anyways it may also depend if the molds dangerous, info about it?
Ok I'm pretty sure the black is dangerous, and the greeniih one may be too. I'm the son of a person who deals in this. You have a right to be worried if the landlord nor the health dpt wont do anything they are liable especially if this is toxic or bad. IF the testsd come back pos and landlord wont do anything take him to court
You are making a mistake on the fact that you assume mold is a problem even with asthma. Well, in fact it is not. You might look at the CDC, the center for disease control in Atlantal emphatically states that mold, even black mold or red mold or yellow mold is not a problem to 99.999999% of humans.
We have lived with mold from the beginning of mankind. There is mold everywhere visible or not it is everywhere and always present in the air we breath even outdoors.
You might work on DUST in your home to help aleviate asthma, not mold. Dust, even from carpet and carpet vacuuming and dust that plain gets into the house thru open doors and windows is very detremental to asthma sufferers.
If you do have carpet, and i sure hope you do not, make sure you use a vacuum cleaner with a HEPPA filter on it so you dont go reciruclating the dust and blowing it into the atmosphere.
You might also consider somehow to lock those windows up and dont open them because the outside air is full of pollen and dust. If you have a furnace with a blower on it get a thick pleated filter on there to rid of the pollen and dust around. You might consider your beddings the child uses, use dust free cotton and cover the matress with plastic cover and also the pillows to prevent any dust mites from causing problems to the child.
If you rent elsewhere, make sure its WOOD FLOORS. and a furnace that uses a really good filter on it, preferably an Electrostatic filter or a 3 inch thick filter to get that pollen and dust out of the air. Cockroach droppings dust, in their droppings is a prime suspect in child asthma. If you have roaches, move out of that apartment ASAP because in apartments it is near impossible to rid of those roaches.
Please, dont pick on Mold, its the least of your problems with an astmatic child. Quit fighting the landlord and go the constructive route.