31 Mar What Are Common Causes Of Mold?
What are common causes of mold inside of the living environment? Let’s just say it’s a condo. What matters is how often you cook in that condo? How many roommates do you have?
Whether you keep the door closed or open when you take a shower or bath. Do you have a hot bath? Most importantly, did you turn the exhaust fan on? Or worst case, do you not have a fan?
Legally, you have to have a window in the bathroom, but a fan would be the mechanical exhaust system would be far more efficient. 20 minutes is usually the time you want to help remove the humidity by opening the window.
Humidity is the number one source of mold, which is surface mold, commonly misunderstood as a mold that you feel you have to remove the wall.
Surface mold is usually from the dust in the air, and the dust we breathe, 70% of the air we breathe is dead skin.
The dust that you are berthing is usually dead skin which is why it’s hard to keep the maintenance in your home. The goal is to keep your home clean and dry and it’s hard to especially when you have a bathroom. A good aid with be a squeegee in the bath tub or shower to help with cleaning the tiles. Towel things down, keep humidity low. Try to keep it under 70%.
Moisture is attracted by cold surfaces. The warmer or hotter the room is, the more moisture it can hold but it will also help prevent the condensation from happening right away.
Get rid of the moisture and keep the relative humidity preferably at 40-60%