Mould and testing

[mrowan]

Kevin

Great comments!

Can’t help but think you were cheering at the Ryder Cup in Kildare the other week!

Slainte

Michael

[W. Frank Fondren]

The reason everyone else spells it "MOLD" instead of Mould is because that is the way Websters Dictionary spells it. Maybe they are wrong. Maybe someone should sue them

[dmccauley]

Webster's New World Dictionary
Mould chiefly British spelling of Mold
I America we spell Mold as Mold

[Roy D. Cooke, Sr]

Originally Posted by dmccauley

Webster's New World Dictionary
Mould chiefly British spelling of Mold
I America we spell Mold as Mold

Originally Posted by wfondren

The reason everyone else spells it "MOLD" instead of Mould is because that is the way Websters Dictionary spells it. Maybe they are wrong. Maybe someone should sue them

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If you go back to where this started I asked why the scientist spelled it MOULD and that most other people from the USA spell it mold.
I wondered if in the scientific part of the world they use the English way of spelling .
Incidental in our part off America ( Canada) we spell it Mould and most in our country have switched to meteric but I still use Lbs and Inches</IMG>.
I have noticed you use lbs and Inches where as in the Scientific part of the USA they use the metric measurements and wondered if it was this way in the Scientific in spelling too.
This can become confusing trying to use both.( It is for me )

Roy Cooke

[Jae Williams]

Originally Posted by rcooke

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If you go back to where this started I asked why the scientist spelled it MOULD and that most other people from the USA spell it mold.
I wondered if in the scientific part of the world they use the English way of spelling .
Incidental in our part off America ( Canada) we spell it Mould and most in our country have switched to meteric but I still use Lbs and Inches</IMG>.
I have noticed you use lbs and Inches where as in the Scientific part of the USA they use the metric measurements and wondered if it was this way in the Scientific in spelling too.
This can become confusing trying to use both.( It is for me )

Roy Cooke

Shucks, Roy...we do that with a lot of words---like, f'rinstance, labour. In the US and A we spell it L-A-B-O-R. You should hear how we pronounce French names around here. It's a whole differnt world...

[Roy D. Cooke, Sr]

Originally Posted by jwilliams4

Shucks, Roy...we do that with a lot of words---like, f'rinstance, labour. In the US and A we spell it L-A-B-O-R. You should hear how we pronounce French names around here. It's a whole differnt world...

I love our money because it easy to tell one bill from another .
I love your money because it is accepted in every country in the world .
And I really love all my American Friends because we can have these silly discusions and forget all our aches and pains for a while .
Roy Cooke
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[Kenton H. Shepard, CMI]

Thomas, I don't claim to be an expert.

The experts are people like Mr. Connell and the scientists at the CDC and the EPA. What I hear the experts saying is "If you have a little, clean it up. If you have a lot, get rid of it, sampling is a waste of time and money".

My understanding:
Mycotoxins are produced by fungi for use against each other in their competition for food. Their effect on humans is negligable.

That said, I finally forked out the $150.00 for a full-face respirator today but not because of mold spores. NACHI has an Inspecting for Wildlife course that lists all the diseases you can get from animals and/or what animals leave behind http://icwdm.org/handbook/damage/dam_man.pdf .

This little cough I've had, can't seem to kick it you know... starting to develop all the symptoms of every disease.

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by rcooke

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If you go back to where this started I asked why the scientist spelled it MOULD and that most other people from the USA spell it mold.
I wondered if in the scientific part of the world they use the English way of spelling .
Incidental in our part off America ( Canada) we spell it Mould and most in our country have switched to meteric but I still use Lbs and Inches</IMG>.
I have noticed you use lbs and Inches where as in the Scientific part of the USA they use the metric measurements and wondered if it was this way in the Scientific in spelling too.
This can become confusing trying to use both.( It is for me )

Roy Cooke

The "scientist" in question is Irish Roy.

[James H. Bushart]

Originally Posted by tszczepanski

I'm still confused but am researching it away from this message board.

Smart move.

Getting all of your info on any subject strictly from this message board is like getting all of your news from CNN.

Most of what is printed on our message board on this topic comes from (a) vendors who supply training in this area or (b) inspectors who sell services in this area - both of whom have extensive experience and knowledge but who also have something at stake in the issue.

Please bring back to the discussion (and the message board) what it is that you learn from outside sources to help increase our database of knowledge on this board. (Even if it invites hostile responses from our resident "experts", it adds quality to the debate).

[Roy D. Cooke, Sr]

Originally Posted by bkelly2

The "scientist" in question is Irish Roy.

You are a good man if you can read their Irish and even better if you can understand it .
Their are two Irish countries and one uses a different language then is written or spoken in Canada or the USA.
I am sure I can not even pronounce mr. Coaimhin P. Connell name
Roy Cooke

[Paul W. Abernathy]

Originally Posted by jbushart

(Even if it invites hostile responses from our resident "experts", it adds quality to the debate).

lol....Who's Hostile...????

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by rcooke

You are a good man if you can read their Irish and even better if you can understand it .
Their are two Irish countries and one uses a different language then is written or spoken in Canada or the USA.
I am sure I can not even pronounce mr. Coaimhin P. Connell name
Roy Cooke

I can not read or understand Gaelic Roy, but I do enjoy Coaimhin's posts, I do not always agree with them but I enjoy them.

From my understanding, most healthy people are not effected by most molds.

[ldapkus]

Contact a local Certified Industrial Hygienist and ask him what his fee is for mold sampling Then contact a local Home Inspector and ask him for pricing. I think you will see why the Hygienist have an arguement here. They don't want the home inspector taking away there business.

[Michael Bazzo, CMI]

Originally Posted by kshepard

The experts are people like Mr. Connell and the scientists at the CDC and the EPA. What I hear the experts saying is "If you have a little, clean it up. If you have a lot, get rid of it, sampling is a waste of time and money".

My understanding:
Mycotoxins are produced by fungi for use against each other in their competition for food. Their effect on humans is negligable.

Tragedy struck a local family in my area recently due to black mold growth in the home. The husband started remodeling a room in the home and in the process, breathed in mold spores. within two weeks, he became so sick his lungs shut down in the middle of the night and died in his wifes arms before paramedics arrived. Mold sampling identifies the type of mold present and the quantity of spores present. The cost of sampling compared to losing a loved one is small and would have provided valuable information to this now grieving family.

[Paul W. Abernathy]

Originally Posted by mbazzo

Tragedy struck a local family in my area recently due to black mold growth in the home. The husband started remodeling a room in the home and in the process, breathed in mold spores. within two weeks, he became so sick his lungs shut down in the middle of the night and died in his wifes arms before paramedics arrived. Mold sampling identifies the type of mold present and the quantity of spores present. The cost of sampling compared to losing a loved one is small and would have provided valuable information to this now grieving family.

Enough proof for me to justify why I do it...........My heart goes out to the family.......so again it tells me the small fee someone pays to identify a problem and have me give them advice they just might take...is priceless....

Yep........I agree with what my training from PMII says......everything else is opinions...wont change what I do.....thanks for posting this note....again sad for their loss as well..