My in-laws discovered mold in their home about four years ago thanks to a tipoff from a psychic. They had their home inspected once, and found nothing. They had their home inspected again and mold was found in their air conditioning system.
Since then, they've had multiple mold remediation companies come in.
* Removal and replacement of several interior walls
* Covering of proximal structural timbers with proprietary anti-mold spray
* several rounds of professional cleaning, with various proprietary blends of magical chemicals
The symptoms my in-laws attribute to mold exposure have not decreased. They've had maybe five or six mold remediation specialists use tools of varying degrees of woo to scan the home. My mother-in-law will set a pan of water overnight in random places and send the water to a lab for testing--no mater where she puts it, it almost always comes back positive (surprise).
I fully believe my inlaws were and are the victim of mold remediation scams. Coupled with their continued reliance on psychics for life advice and their dismissal of mainstream health (they never go to medical doctors) in favor of "functional medicine" and chiropracty, they've dumped nearly 100k of their retirement into trying to solve a problem that we have no direct evidence is the cause of their symptoms.
The story doesn't really have a happy ending. They're living with us as they can't move into other constructions "because of the VOCs" (our home isn't special, they just started living here before they "learned" about VOCs).
I'm not in a position to criticize any particular mold remediation company or technique, I just wanted to share my absurd reality in case it helps anyone else frame what they might be going through themselves. There is a cottage industry of various kinds of remediation scams, and many of them are outright egregious.
My in-laws discovered mold in their home about four years ago thanks to a tipoff from a psychic. They had their home inspected once, and found nothing. They had their home inspected again and mold was found in their air conditioning system.
Since then, they've had multiple mold remediation companies come in.
* Removal and replacement of several interior walls
* Covering of proximal structural timbers with proprietary anti-mold spray
* several rounds of professional cleaning, with various proprietary blends of magical chemicals
The symptoms my in-laws attribute to mold exposure have not decreased. They've had maybe five or six mold remediation specialists use tools of varying degrees of woo to scan the home. My mother-in-law will set a pan of water overnight in random places and send the water to a lab for testing--no mater where she puts it, it almost always comes back positive (surprise).
I fully believe my inlaws were and are the victim of mold remediation scams. Coupled with their continued reliance on psychics for life advice and their dismissal of mainstream health (they never go to medical doctors) in favor of "functional medicine" and chiropracty, they've dumped nearly 100k of their retirement into trying to solve a problem that we have no direct evidence is the cause of their symptoms.
The story doesn't really have a happy ending. They're living with us as they can't move into other constructions "because of the VOCs" (our home isn't special, they just started living here before they "learned" about VOCs).
I'm not in a position to criticize any particular mold remediation company or technique, I just wanted to share my absurd reality in case it helps anyone else frame what they might be going through themselves. There is a cottage industry of various kinds of remediation scams, and many of them are outright egregious.