Home Made Easy Steps How To Kill Black Molds

Get proper precautions to stay ahead from the any affect from the mold and wired fungi
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Amy The title of the article is deceptive. The only "step" they suggest is getting a dehumidifier. 11/3/2009
Suzy Buy a dehumidifier is the best you have to offer? The article said "steps"-- that's plural. Yet another waste of time to read something that told me NOTHING that every 7th grade student doesn't already know! 10/6/2009
john Good advice on this. If nothing else is done, the dehumidifier will do a great job. But I decided to help out my dehumidifier. I took the following steps in a hundred year old house with a full basement in an area with high precipitation and a river which keeps the groundwater level high. All the construction n the basement is 100 year old oak, sturdy and strong, but black with mold and the smell was wet dank and nasty and the air was clammy.

I took out all the carpet and pulled the drywall off and tossed it leaving only the beams and posts and joists etc..
I spread close to 100 pounds of table salt on the floor packing it in along all the baseboard areas and between the joints of the wood.. Then I took Arm&Hammer baking soda and put it in big plastic watering can with a fixed nozzle with holes and then cut a hole in the lid and stuck my wet/dry nozzle on blow instead of vaccum and stuck it in the top of the can and turned that puppy on and blew almost 30 lbs of arm&hammer all over the inside of the walls flooring and ceiling until everything was covered with a thick layer of soda. And then I turned on a 70 pint dehumidifier and ran it 24/7 for a month emptying it about 2 times a day.

Then I put on new rain gutters and banked a mixture of dry sand and mortar at about a thirty degree angle around the foundations and wet it down with a hose--just on the surface-- and made sure the rest of the grade was "away" from the house all the way around it and then I made simple treated wood rain/snow roofs for the basement windows.

If it sounds like a pain in the behind, it was. Really. But the folks around the area who had been putting up with mold and damp basements for a long long time couldn't believe that salt and arm&hammer and dehumidifying had killed off the mold with the basement for the first time in 50 years not smelling all dank and nasty.

I haven't yet decided what to do about refinishing the wall and celings. And I don't plan to do anything until I see if the mold comes back. And I won't know how that works out until after this winter. (The temp can drop to -40 or -50 and I want to make sure the ground doesn't freeze too deep around the basement and open up cracks for water. But we will see what we will see.		 11/15/2008
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