Matt Kelly ("the Mold man") answers a viewer question about a persistent musty smell at a front door. He explains that a detectable musty odor indicates active mold growth that is emitting microbial volatile organic compounds (VOCs), describes associated health risks from spores/mycotoxins, and advises hiring a remediator who uses proper containment (negative air pressure) and locates and fixes the water source.
Deborah's in a sticky situation here because they had their home remediated. They still have a musty smell around the front door. And if you still have a musty smell, you still have mold. Okay? When you smell that musty smell coming from mold, that's a secondary metabolite, a microbial voc. What that means is it's alive, thriving, and well, okay, you can have mold and not smell. But when molds are healthy enough that they're putting off that microbial voc, you know, they're doing very well. And that's a bad thing for us, good thing for them. But if you smell it, I mean, at least if you can locate, like where the smell is coming from. And I, I see in your description here, the contractor or the mediator said they don't deal with that. They call a contractor. But that's what it's going to come down to. If you have moldy wood to the point that you can smell it, if that's not dealt with, that's going to keep festering. And when mold festers, it just keeps growing. And as it keeps growing, if there's toxinic molds in there, it's making more mycotoxins. Those mycotoxins can keep coming into your living space. And that's what crushes our immune system, attacks our kidneys, our liver, our gut, our neurological system, our hormones, our everything. Right? So the good news is you have a good idea where it is. The bad news is you need to get someone in that knows how to use proper containment, not just a general contractor that's just going to come in and rip it all open and let all those spores, fragments and mycotoxins flood your house. Don't ask me how I know, but bad things happen when people do that. I probably talked about it in other videos, but it happens. So be mindful to make sure they're used. Proper containment, negative air pressure. Keep things outside. Okay. At least when I sit right at the front door, it should be easier to keep that moving outside. They don't have to, you know, put up containment in a large area, but you need to get someone in that knows how to deal with that properly and figure out why. What's the water source? You know, if something at your front door, I mean, that makes sense, maybe it's getting under the threshold there, something's feeding it, feeding it enough to keep it very healthy. So you need someone that can examine it first and figure out why the water is getting in to feed that mold and then make sure they know how to fix it properly under containment. I hope that helps.
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