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When I was young and had no sense I stuck my pee pee in an electric fence it curled my hair and tickled my balls and made me crap in my overalls.

very good videó thank you

ugh tell that to the 32 million dollar lawsuit that happened in texas. the one lawsuit certified mold inspector learn about, its like the main one we learn about. mold was found to be cause of severe toxic reactions in both the husband and infant. husband recorded memory loss and infant was coughing blood. which was directly related to the stachybotris micotoxins in the house. which are toxins released from mold. Mycotoxins are one of the things a certified mold inspector learns about. and the "toxic mold syndrome" you're referring to is real, that's just a synonym for "sick building syndrome" which is a nationally recognized syndrome. again learned if certified correctly.

It literally took a 2 minute Google search to refute this video. The EPA absolutely says mold could affect your health in addition to having a guide on how to safely remove it, including mold testing. This whole vid is cap.

Whaatttt…. As an inspector this information is soo bogus. I was in the army for 10 years. I lived in many barracks with mold. Ended up in the hospital for mold toxicity! Diagnosed with a number of things that I no longer have after getting out and living in a clean home! Go live in a house with mold for 6 months and remake this video. Would love to see your response then. Absolute false information.

All of you people saying this doesn’t work: This is basically a bladder/pressure tank

Based on my personal mold exposure experience at higher than outside concentrations, I will say unscientifically that mold absolutely can mess with you physically, neurologically, emotionally and psychologically. The amount of airborne mold outside my home is quite alarming to me (although not completely unexpected) and I am now close to zero airborne mold inside my home now.

Tell me why a contractor and/or subcontractor would EVER run waterlines on exterior walls then insulate over the top of them! Seems to me insulation should be the first thing on the inside of exterior walls then waterlines.

Thanks for the knowledge!!

Electro shower for when you’re done with life

And this is the reason why I always video the entire inspection.

So we have this in our basement but theres no tree, so now what?

That's why u Insulate foundation from the outside... Well in the us houses are build from paper....

Thank you

People, do not listen to this guy. There is ABSOLUTELY scientific proof that mold can have adverse effects on health. Get him to answer questions about CIRS, or HLA gene. Funny how he talks about scams.

Wow. I wish it was funny but it chronically sad. Air samples suck, but for the opposite reason you dislike them. The warning on radon is mostly because it’s nuclear, the data show’s that I would have to hang out in a basement that’s at action level or 4 picocuries for 60 year solid, for a less than 1% increase in risk of lung cancer. Reason why there is no set limit is because there is no quantitive data to prove a set amount of a particular mold is bad for everyone. As for air samples. I ran them next to mold, came back that outdoors is way worse than the not tight home with no ERV. I run hundreds of samples and unless I target them, they typically show nothing. I stick with moisture meter and surface samples to verify mostly. Or just judge whether there is condition 2 of condition 1 on a surface. Moving on. Yes, CIRS, which is a diagnoses that has blood markers and I’ve seen so many with this issue and seen them come back to life when they had issues taken care of and took the medication the doctor gave them. They’ve called my boss in tears because they could think again and felt like they used too again. Hey, I get it, you never had the issue. I can say it’s sucked and even though I was having all these problems I couldn’t believe it was mold. How binders got rid of migraines, I can’t explain. The dementia I thought I was having was scary and thankfully gone. SBS as outlined in the bioaerosols book, which you never mention and happens to be the gold standard. You just love the EPA because it doesn’t really deal much with mold and leaves it to other agency’s. Yeah, that book outlines and defines sick building syndrome as people feeling ill in a building. Then you have Building related illnesses, like legionnaires, which is considered a BRI because you caught it in a building. Worth noting no set limit for exposure to histoplasma, guess it’s not harmful to breathe in because the EPA hasn’t set a limit. It’s a mold so I guess it’s in the air everywhere anyways. Then people Claim they have histoplasmosis, so fake until the EPA sets a limit, it isn’t real. That’s your logic. The environmental protections agency…. The agency that sets limits on car emissions. Let’s ignore the American counsel of industrial hygienist and solely concentrate on the EPA. They also haven’t set exposure limits to legionella exposure either. Dirty cooling towers are fine. Even if the ERV has an improper intake next to one, you assume the HEPA filter, which is tested outside the machine, it going to preform the same way it does independent of the machine it’s installed into. Then you pretend that the full volume of air in the home will travel through the machine. Without linear flow , it’s never going to happen. And yes it’s an allergen. For some people, it’s much like a peanut allergy. But what’s the EPA’s set limit for peanut butter exposure again?? I guess my son can bring a sandwich to school with him now cause there is no set limit. You may want to rethink everything you said I this video. It’s dangerously misleading. I wish it wasn’t!!! I hate seeing what happens to the 1/4 of the population that have a genetic inability for their immune systems to target and help remove certain toxins.

The fact that most people spend 90% of their time indoors is the problem!

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You say people don't get sick from mold? LOL! You're the scam.

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Couldn't get past the first 90 seconds... I went to urgent care from breathing mold spores in the air. Be careful everyone

you are not a mold professional, you are a home inspector. Stop talking about things you don't know about, this is coming from a licensed MAC in Texas. You my friend are full of poo poo

You're a sham my man, I've been in the mold industry for years. Stachybotrys (black mold) is proven to cause massive neurological problems. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2828207/#:~:text=Central%20nervous%20system%20manifestations%20include,symptoms%20are%20also%20frequently%20reported.

This guy is all bad news. And less possible recommendation.

Good idea about checking water temps in the morning.

Ice and water can both exist at 32, but to say that it’s only one degree is misleading. It takes a lot of btus of latent energy to go from ice to water.

I really liked your video. I'm in the Houston, TX area and have learned a lot over the years. The TV news only partially provides the necessary information. Cover the hose bibs; check. Open cabinets; check. But NEVER goes into the FACT that it is HEAT from the living space (that you so well covered) that prevents the pipes from freezing. Hose bib pipes on unheated walls WILL freeze and burst once the temperature gets into the teens. (they don't break the valves themselves; they break the thinner pipes in the walls) Pay attention to where your hose bibs are and if heat can get to that wall. I was around in 1989 when, due to the loss of power (rotating power outages), pipes burst all over Houston. Knowing this, for "The Great Texas Freeze" of 2021, I had already drained all of the water from my house pipes. (I failed with my pool equipment, but that is a different story. Live and learn.) New lessons. Remove plugs from pool equipment when there is a power loss; because there is no power to circulate the water to prevent it from freezing using "freeze mode". Leverage heat from the earth to keep things from freezing. A bunch of my pool equipment froze and burst pipes and the heater because I didn't know to remove the plugs and let them drain. But, I have a fake boulder over the water valves used for my in-floor cleaning. That survived just fine in 2021; good thing too as there are a TON of pipes for that. For hose bibs, I recently bought some Freeze Misers. Check them out.

Who do we call in south east florida since you’re in Colorado ?

What if you get water flow in the sink and bathroom sink but no hot water in your shower?

Hello, experiencing a winter freeze right now. The pipes are ok so far. 🙏🏼 I watched your video & respect your expertise. In addition to taking temperature readings (for the graph you demonstrated), what general factors will tell us the pipes are in a safe zone? I assume whenever the outdoor temp is below 33 deg, then there is a threat for frozen pipes? Lastly, is it ok to remove all of the vent styrofoam covers to the crawlspace when the outdoor temperature consistently stays above 33 deg - to avoid radon poisoning &/or mold growth? Thank you.

thank you, property brother

My pipes in my cottage had been frozen for four days and I watched your video this morning. I got the woodstove roaring to heat up the place more and opened the cupboard doors under the sinks in the bathroom and the kitchen. Then I went outside and put a small space heater near the pipes in my exposed crawlspace. after a couple hours your tips worked wonderfully. Thank you so much for posting this informative video!! 🥳 I’ll be better prepared for next winter. 🥶👍

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You are awesome, thanks

In Wisconsin, we could not use Edison base fuses because they are light sockets (A 10 watt or a 300 watt bulb have the same size base). We had to use Type-S fuses. They have different sizes, 15 amp is smaller than 20, and a 15 or 20 amp would fall out of a 30 amp socket. Also fuses can have a time delay element in them. A fuse with no time delay like a 15 amp will pop just a fraction above it's rating, depending on the size of it's heat sink a time delay fuse will hold a few seconds before blowing.

I am stunned that there have not been thousands of comments and hundreds of thousands of views for your 3 fantastic videos on this topic. I am an engineer myself and have had a 40 year career that has included owning and looking after buildings. You explain the topic and what can be done very well and (most importantly) in an unbiased manner without pushing viewers to purchase something. Thank you.

You must be new to taking videos, some good help next time

Ok....I have huge beef with Western Peer Reviewed scholarly journals, what is considered "proven", and the political agenda of the EPA. Additionally, mycelium, mycology, and all things fungi are absolutely understudied. For example, a mycologist I know sequenced the DNA of hundreds of new fungi species each year. In regards to the problematic companies that prey on homeowners who are scared. That makes me so mad! I do appreciate your explanations as far as getting rid of the moisture. I live in Humboldt county. A living, breathing moss land lol! I know you are a contractor, unfortunately here, most of us have to rent the cost-of-living is so high and our opportunities are so limited (well jobs that pay living wage or a homeowning wage). Most of the homes here are very old and beat up. I've got a huge dehumidifier and fan going right now in my room I know you disagree with me, but I absolutely am suffering from mold exposure from a yearly flooded 200 year old farmhouse that i had to move out of. I couldn't figure out why I was getting so many shocks, and why I was getting all this weird black crap coming out of my sinuses, my eyes and my ears and my nose, and all of a sudden all my hair kind of turned black at the roots and fell out. I don't know what year you made this, but there are connections mold, exposure, and sinuses, and all that junk. But still, you were on point with finding the source of the water. I think some people don't have the ability to flush the spores from their system. I think about 3% of the population I'm not positive on the data. I appreciate that you want to communicate a well-rounded and well thought out argument, but I would like to state that am truly sick and it's not psychosomatic or anything like that. Anyhow, I don't want to sound like an asshole so I'm gonna go but thank you so much for the informative video. I hope you have a wonderful wonderfully successful career.

I am a human mold detector lol! I start gagging and coughing and my hair starts standing on end 😂😂😂😂😂what's left of my hair!

I am very sick due to mold. No one is going to tell me differently

Very informative! We're just in the process of having our 37 year old deck replaced with a new one. Lots of upkeep over the years, but it was time. Pretty incredible to see the differences in code here in Minnesota from 1986 to today. Our new deck is being installed with helical piles. I noticed that you didn't mention them. The ones that were installed go down 12', to some really solid soil. The first several feet in our yard are pretty spongy, and the original footing which went down 3-4 feet sunk a bit over the years. The helical piles supposedly have no movement or settling. Interesting process to watch as they're being installed.

Not true!!! I almost lost my life to a water damaged apartment. As soon as I left, neuropathy went away, my Dysautonomia improved over 75%. I am living proof that the mycotoxins coming from old water damage can lower immune system and you can never recover from that. Ask Dave Aspery

This video is a great demonstration of why you should get a specialist to test your well (it's not that expensive). The reason to get a good well test (at the well) is because it is the only part of your water system that can't be fixed. Pumps can be replaced, plumbing can be repaired, but ultimately the well/aquifer flow rate is the ultimate limiting factor of how much water you can use. A couple of minor points: 1) When the pump flow rate is higher than what the well/aquifer can deliver, you can install a storage tank. The well pumps into the storage tank at its own pace and another pump draws water from the tank and sends it to the house. The well/aquifer is still the ultimate limiting factor, but the tank allows for a continuous supply water to the house as the well recovers. 90% of the wells in my area are set up this way. The other 10% run off of wells that flow enough running dry is not an issue. 2) You don't have to manually shut the pump off if it runs dry. The control box has a timer that automatically restarts the pump after a pre-set amount of time. 3) "Tributaries"?

I have mold spots on different walls caused because there was a water leak from pipes in the walls, but never dried, wouldn’t that definitely tell me their is mold in between the walls, never ever get sick in 20 years but a few times, I have, same symptoms, headaches, little feverish, no energy, been sneezing more Than I used to,would kilz prevent any dispersed mold

You are completely wrong about the effects of mold on human health, and the effects of other environmental diseases created by a variety of chemicals that define sick building syndrome. Environmental medicine is not taught in medical schools because that would open the door to actual disease pathogenesis, which are based upon starvation and poisoning from industrial chemicals like pesticides, heavy metals like fluoride added to water, and numerous other factors related to processed food. We are all different with respect to chemical and EMF sensitivity; some are so sensitive, living in a traditional home is a city with WIFI, cellphones, cell towers, and pesticide-driven farming is not possible, while others seem to live normally until they are given a cancer diagnosis. Research with patients over the past 45 years, and spending time with researches not funded by mainstream medicine, has resulted in a very different approach to diagnosis and treatment of chronically ill people. Open your mind to the possibility you know nothing about this subject as it relates to human illness, and instead focus on how to cleanup a toxic home that can actually help someone that traditional medical providers cannot.

Thank you for being so generous with your time to educate my husband and me about mold testing and remediation scams. You are, so obviously, extremely experienced, educated and, most importantly, ethical. The knowledge and suggestions you shared with us will prove more valuable than anything we expected when we contacted you.

Well Done, I have been a mold inspector for 16yrs and this video impressed me. you are well spoken....don't listen to the haters.....Cheers

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What utter idiocy!!! You belong on youtube