Mould causing ill health

Originally Posted by Owenski

Im heading to the docs now so I will enquire about the allergies, I'll mention the mold too

I don't think your problem is an allergy per se, the doctor will almost certainly dismiss it, but if you are prone to allergies or asthma, you are much more likely to suffer chest infection type symptoms as a result of mould. If there is an allergen trigger affecting you which normally doesn't manifest into symptoms, then dealing with that allergen with anti-histamine may help you to deal with the mould.

Originally Posted by specialone

Matt, in the states they have really bad problems with it...

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

Hope you get it sorted Matt, the long term damage mould can inflict really isn't worth it.

This was my concern, Ive seen enough house episodes to know TV can make you think its a problem even though its not and even more episodes where mold was the culprit.Thats why I wanted to see if anyone in this 100No. community had a first hand experiance with it, chances are if they did then its not just something ive created to in my head.

I know the mold is there so thats not made up, I know the symthoms I've got so they're not made up either, but the likely hood of the two been connected was where my head went fuzzy.

I've spoken with the doc, you're right ralph - "viral infection here take anti-biotics for 10 days". They've also bumped me up to the brown inhaler to be taken 4 times a day, not bad to say 3 weeks ago I never even had the blue one.

Questions asked:
Can I have a flu jab? - You'd be having it now if you werent already ill, its been arranged for Thursday.
Should I consider allergies? - No, why! Do you have a new pet? - No, well its asthma then
I think we've mold in the house could that be the cause? - Cause, No but definate factor to why I've seen you 3 times in 3 months but dont recall meeting previously. (We have but a loooooooong time ago).

Plus other questions about doses' etc.

Im quite satisfied now that the asthma is agrivated by the mold but not caused by it, I will be doing my best to remove as much mold from the house as I can. I may even fit one of the former bathroom extractors into the cellar and have it come on for a couple of hours a day once I've completed the other treatments down there.

How old are you by the way?

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

How old are you by the way?

(m) old.......

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Owenski

Then I had liver problems

Not guilty.

I'm a baby ralph, 26yrs young.

Yc - supisingly he's not lying my liver was pickled long before yc staggered into my life.

Originally Posted by Mr Speirs

We used to suffer from damp and mould in our flat. Last winter was quite bad.

We ended up buying a dehumidifier and running it over night and into the morning until we both had our showers. Located it centrally. Got rid of all the condensation everywhere in the flat apart from the bathroom when we were having showers.

If you have a house I'd say you'd need one upstairs and one downstairs.

Theres probably other things you can do to your building I guess but a quick and relatively cheap fix is a dehumindifier.

We were extracting around 3l a night.

This!

We live on a houseboat and keeping things dry and mould free used to be difficult before we bought a dehumidifier. If you haven't got a source of heat and ventilation in a room then keeping it damp free will be hard. You can get dehumidifiers that run continuously that drain via a pipe in the back rather than to a tank (limiting) so maybe think about running one in the cellar once you've stopped the water source.

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by Owenski

In brief - All over.

We've got a crappy tiny cellar which has a spring or something running through it, as fresh as this water is the moisture is obviously absored up the walls and its visible all the way up to our damp proof, which seems to work as the blocks above it which can be seen are uneffected.

Well if it were me. I'd be looking at doing something with that first, Dehumidifiers, anti mould paint, sealers etc all are just masking the problem IMHO, you need to stop the wet getting in, once its in your then just constantly dealing with a problem, best way is prevention in the first place.

I'd talk to a builder / somebody who specialises in the wet problem you have.

As for mould, I would wager you are being effected by it. One of my friends lived in a flat that had a damp problem and ended up needing and inhaler / coughing all the time. It got a lot better when they moved out of the flat they were in and into a house that was dry.

I've already dug a trench around the house around 1m deep then tanking painted and 1200guaged every inch. Then on top of that I installed a land drain, before back filling the trench with rubble and gravel.
we've upgraded to plastic mains water pipes and refitted the supply. As **** luck would have it, It appears as though the spring is actually in the cellar which is a proper nut buster.

The brain trust that is the org have given me some fantastic ideas for what to do next so that's what I'll do.

If I remember I'll get pics etc all on here and please please keep the ideas coming.

Don't forget to bottle your new spring water, a la celler