Yesterday? I finally found a mold specialist in my state (a friend suggested some other search terms and he came up right away with them.. I had no luck at all with all the terms I tried). The guy was advertising free mold inspections.
I emailed him not believing it would be free to get a mold specialist out to my little country town to do house inspection. Anyway 24 hrs? later he phoned and asked if i wanted him to come and do free inspection
On walking in.. he commented that the mold smelt very strong (I cant nowdays smell it at all, I used to.. so I guess ive got so used to it that I cant notice it anymore). He then went right around my house, all the rooms, looking at walls etc (nothing really thou to currently see here except some little patches of yellow mold starting to grow back on the bathroom roof and if looked at real close, some black mold starting to grow again there too).
I'd thought black mold was only in America but this guy informed me that its here in Australia too and all black mold is bad. He said the amount I had in the past (I had a whole ceiling covered in black mold), it would of certainly have been affecting my health. He strongly advised me to go to my doctor and have blood test done for mold spores and also said he'd ring my doctor if needed to support I need that test.
To add to my good luck, it turned out that this guy also works for the government housing guys as contractor at times (Im in a government housing place), so he said he would ring them too. He said my house was very bad and it needs treatment for the mold.
He asked me how I'd cleaned the mold off the mold covered ceiling in the past (2-3 years ago) .. and then told me the pure bleach I'd used everywhere (so much i was then ill) wouldnt have killed it at all due to it still being in the air etc. hence still throu my house and still probably affecting me.
Apparently Ozone is used to first before getting mold off of things.. ozone is put in the roof, walls, everywhere to kill the spores. Once its dead, then its cleaned off of surfaces. He said then they cover the walls etc with a special substance which stops molds from growing.
No idea what will happen from here, he said he cant make the gov. housing people fix it but he said he was fairly sure they may do when he rings them. (im concerned about how I will react to the cleaning stuff, but this needs to be done).
I emailed him not believing it would be free to get a mold specialist out to my little country town to do house inspection. Anyway 24 hrs? later he phoned and asked if i wanted him to come and do free inspection
On walking in.. he commented that the mold smelt very strong (I cant nowdays smell it at all, I used to.. so I guess ive got so used to it that I cant notice it anymore). He then went right around my house, all the rooms, looking at walls etc (nothing really thou to currently see here except some little patches of yellow mold starting to grow back on the bathroom roof and if looked at real close, some black mold starting to grow again there too).
I'd thought black mold was only in America but this guy informed me that its here in Australia too and all black mold is bad. He said the amount I had in the past (I had a whole ceiling covered in black mold), it would of certainly have been affecting my health. He strongly advised me to go to my doctor and have blood test done for mold spores and also said he'd ring my doctor if needed to support I need that test.
To add to my good luck, it turned out that this guy also works for the government housing guys as contractor at times (Im in a government housing place), so he said he would ring them too. He said my house was very bad and it needs treatment for the mold.
He asked me how I'd cleaned the mold off the mold covered ceiling in the past (2-3 years ago) .. and then told me the pure bleach I'd used everywhere (so much i was then ill) wouldnt have killed it at all due to it still being in the air etc. hence still throu my house and still probably affecting me.
Apparently Ozone is used to first before getting mold off of things.. ozone is put in the roof, walls, everywhere to kill the spores. Once its dead, then its cleaned off of surfaces. He said then they cover the walls etc with a special substance which stops molds from growing.
No idea what will happen from here, he said he cant make the gov. housing people fix it but he said he was fairly sure they may do when he rings them. (im concerned about how I will react to the cleaning stuff, but this needs to be done).