Re: [GBlist] Mold question

["Steven Shepard" <sbtdesigns@earthlink.net>]

OK, I give.  For all you environmentally challenged bodies, minds and souls,
as I per my reply to another:

I truly hope that you have this situation under control and it is not a
threatening issue.  I just marvel how environmentally sensitive humans have
become and intolerant of their own surroundings and neighbors (human or
not).  It just strikes me as simply incredible.  These organisms have
certainly been here since the dawn of time.  It would appear that as we
humans propagate ourselves further we reduce our ability to deal with them.
There seems to be a message there.

And I still think Tom Tynan has provoked many, many unecessary lawsuits on
this topic.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Salmen" <terrain@shaw.ca>
To: "Aimee M Houser (Aimee Houser)" <hous0088@tc.umn.edu>;
<greenbuilding@crest.org>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [GBlist] Mold question


> Mold concerns are real and are wreaking havoc on peoples lives - and very
> much the responsibility of the building community. I agree with Aimee that
> this is not a topic where someone involved in building can afford to play
> the role of skeptic.
>
> I just returned from spending a few days over xmas in a very remote
village
> on the northwest coast, accessible only by boat or plane. Back in the
> 60's&70's the CAN gov't here developed a design for a box called a house
> that became the standard house built for native peoples. Contracts went
out
> wholesale to builders to build whole towns of these houses.
>
> The designs themselves were not appropriate in a large number of ways but
> were poorly detailed (or not at all) to deal with weather of any kind -
> especially the kind of weather you would get on an open ocean exposure
> (vertical rain). To make matters worse the builders were totally
> irresponsible, eliminating all flashings, often not putting any building
> paper of any type, etc.
>
> People were virtually forced to live in these houses and could do nothing
to
> correct or prevent the subsequent deterioration but live within it. The
> health of many is irreparably damaged. There are children chronically ill
> wearing respirators - in one of the most pristene, unpolluted parts of the
> world with no roads and no industry. You see houses with half the floor
> sheathing and joists rotted away. Whole lower sections of walls including
> drywall crumbled away.
>
> Emergency repairs are now underway but are limited (as everyone squabbles
> over who is responsible).
>
> Ironically some or all of these problems either exist or have the
potential
> to exist  in virtually all houses especially those built in the last 30-40
> yrs. Many of these problems are either cosmetically sealed in surface
> renewals or hang precariously on the operation of an air system or house
> maintenance - all subject to the economy and energy of an occupant.
>
> Many of the building materials in use today cannot be maintained or
renewed
> in traditional ways and so the health of a building is subject to a
> replacement economy - if you push a siding, roofing or mechanical system
> past its relatively short life expectancy all other parts of an assembly
can
> become quickly compromised.
>
> Its a very complicated topic, but some of the flaws are obvious.
>
> John Salmen
> TERRAIN E.D.S.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aimee M Houser (Aimee Houser)" <hous0088@tc.umn.edu>
> To: <greenbuilding@crest.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 5:03 PM
> Subject: [GBlist] Mold question
>
>
> > Talk about skepticism. Steven, I sense from your tone that you have not
> > had health problems due to mold. And are ignorant of the health problems
> > it can cause. (What gods we are in our own individual lives!) And though
I
> > don't know about the talk show person you refer to, no phenomena is so
> > simple as to lay squarely on the shoulders of one person. I'm not sure
> > what your message was meant to convey, but I found it counter-productive
> > if not more than a little smug.
> >
>
>
>
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