Short YouTube response by Matt Kelly addressing how to prevent cross contamination when moving out of a moldy home. Kelly emphasizes discarding porous/soft items (mattresses, thick-cushioned couches, stuffed toys) because they retain mold spores, fragments and mycotoxins; suggests options such as disposal, storage in sealed totes, cleaning/treatment outside (fogging, chemical cleaners like ammonia, vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, EC3), and recommends specialized training (his masterclass) for full procedures. Includes anecdote illustrating risk of bringing contaminated items into a previously clean home.
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All right, Trent's asking cross contamination prevention when leaving a moldy home. That is a big answer. That is a big topic. And I actually cover cross contamination in my mold proof your home masterclass. So go to moldproofyourhome.com take a look. There's over nine hours of video training from me, over 100 video lessons on how to mold proof your home. And one of the bonus units is on cross contamination and how to hopefully prevent it. Because many people have gone from a moldy home to a cleaner home and cross contaminated and ruined the new place and they had to move on again. I'm sad. It's sad, but it's true. It happened. So I'm glad you're asking the question because you will hopefully not be one of those people that cross contaminate like many people unfortunately do. So. Yeah, how do you prevent it? You, you have to get rid of stuff that is porous and soft and, you know, like stuffed animals and furry things and couches that are thick cushions, mattress, all these things that are most likely to hold the most spores fragments and mycotoxins, those become the biggest risk. You know, like when you sit on a couch and the dust comes up out of it that you can see in the sunlight. Right. Anything that's, that's the thicker it is and softer it is, the more toxins and spores are going to get held within that. And I heard, I read one lady's story, she wasn't a client of mine, but they had moved to their in laws to get out of their moldy home and they were doing okay there. And she, and just a mom was sick and she told them, don't bring anything from our house here to cross contaminate. And to make a long story short, they ended up, without telling her, brought a mattress from their old house. And then she, it ended up cross contaminating. She just got so inflamed and wasn't even able to stay at the in laws anymore. That's how much damage they did by bringing those spores fragments and mycotoxins that she breathed in that just shot her inflammation through the roof. So there's a lot of things you got to do for cleaning. There's things you can do, you can put them in storage. There's. You can fog it, you can high tech it, you can clean it. You've got ammonia and vinegar and hydrogen peroxide and EC3. There's a million different things that you can do. But. Can I answer that in three minutes? No. Just know that you need to get rid of the easy things that are easy to get rid of that don't mean a lot to you that you're okay to replace that could be holding the most spores and toxins, and then from there you have to figure out what needs treated. You want to treat it in a clean plate, preferably outside. You can seal it up then if it's going to come back into your bad space, into totes and tape it so that when it goes. There's a lot to this. Okay, But I'm throwing out a bunch of ideas here. A lot of the points you need to know and consider, and I hope that helps you a bit. Trent.
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