Matt Kelly explains how mold spores from a musty garage can travel into your home on shoes and clothes, then grow if humidity stays above 50% or there's a water leak. Even visitors' moldy clothing can trigger reactions in sensitive people.
Questions this video answers
Yes — spores, fragments, and mycotoxins can be carried in on air, shoes, and clothes and enter the house.
Over 50%.
Yes — visitors' clothes can carry spores, fragments, and mycotoxins that trigger symptoms in sensitive individuals.
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All right, we got a great question here from Madeline. I like this one. Can mold spread or be tracked by foot into a healthy, dry environment like a musty, gross garage that is attached to a clean house? That is a great question. And the answer, unfortunately is, is yes, absolutely. And I've seen this before where people have a leak in their garage and a wall in the garage or in the ceiling of the garage and the garage is super moldy. But then you have that door that goes from the garage into the house and every time that's open and closed, those spores, those mycotoxins can go in. So say some of those spores, say they're stachy or ketomium go in your house, they land who knows where, and then you have a water leak in the house, your dishwasher has a leak or any leak anywhere, or you just have high humidity. Okay, Your humidity is over 50%. And these are saying this is awesome. I'm going to start growing here wherever it landed in the dark corner, you know, or wherever there was a damp spot or just any dark spot, it finds and has the humidity it needs and it starts growing. But yes, you can absolutely track this in on shoes, on clothes. You can even have people that are sensitive enough that when they have family or friends over coming from a moldy home, they start reacting just to their clothes. The spores, fragments, mycotoxins coming off their visitors clothes are enough to start triggering symptoms in the mold sick person. So these absolutely come and they can absolutely cause trouble.
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