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Why is Mold such a BIG problem all of the sudden?

Mold is and has been a concern of some proportion for as long as people have been around to suffer from its allergenic and toxigenic effects. Mold is only one type of an estimated 100,000 different species of fungi across the planet. Fungal fossils have been discovered that are more than 300 millions years old, so mold has been around for a long, long time. The Old Testament makes references to mold, and other works have documented human interaction with mold since the dawn of recorded history.

It’s theorized, due to obvious symbiotic relationships between fungi, protests and plant roots, that ancient forests could never have begun to grow if fungi did not exist. However impossible life might be without mold and other fungi, its existence still poses problems on a daily basis for millions of people worldwide. Mold digests nutrients before they absorb then in as chemicals, so mold literally eats the surfaces they grow on. Given enough moisture and enough time mold can eat away and utterly destroy any organic material, or products made from organic material: i.e. wood, paper, drywall, etc.

In the past homes were built larger, more spacious, better ventilated, and at greater distant from other structures. But with the recent overcrowding in many newer, fast growing cities, demand for housing has become greatly unbalanced with some of the better and safer construction protocol. A large portion of today’s homes are built extremely compact, poorly ventilated, and are squeezed into subdivisions side by side with no room between them for truly efficient drainage. In areas plagued with excessive rain or high humidity, this kind of construction could lead to literal mold breeding grounds.

This fact shouldn’t suggest that construction protocol is necessarily flawed, but the combination of all of these things inevitably leads in the general direction of mold growth. As long as the demand for housing continues to outweigh sensible building procedures, homebuyers and owners need to have an understanding of moisture issues, indoor air quality, and mold infestation.

Lately the evidence of global warming seems universally solid. If temperatures do continue to climb, raising sea temperature and humidity about the country and the world, then mold issues are, without doubt, going to become an even larger problem. It isn’t just the possible heat and moisture we might worry about, but the advent of larger and more destructive hurricanes as sea temperatures rise, increases in rain and flooding, and the fact that any mold contamination is going to be exponentially harder to eliminate under these conditions.

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