Where does mold happen in my home?

I think Sally's asking me to do the impossible here. She's asking me. She says, yes, I want to know where mold usually occurs. And this is what everyone wants to know. Where's that mold hiding in my house that's making me sick? And I don't blame you. That's the million dollar question for everybody that's affected by mold. Right. And it's usually not visible. The odd time I have clients that say I can see it on this wall, or I see it behind this baseboard, or I see it coming out from behind my shower or something like that. Right. Or my bathroom gets so humid during showers that there's a moldy area over the toilet or something like that. Right. But most people don't see it. But you're asking a good question. Where does it usually occur? The wettest rooms. Okay, so bathrooms, kitchens, laundry rooms, crawl spaces, basements, attics in case there's an attic leak. Wherever there's water, that's where it's more susceptible, obviously. Okay. But it's not always like this wall here in my office might have a water line going through it, going to the basement. It could have a pinhole leak. It could just be it wasn't crimped. Right. Or some solder failed or. Or the guy doing the baseboard put a nail through it. There's lots of reasons that weird spots and walls get water in them, but the biggest, most common are bathrooms and kitchens, for obvious reasons. You get a dishwasher leak, it goes down the back of the dishwasher, it can go under the floor, it can go up the wall, it goes across under the cabinets and can just go for a long time unnoticed. That's a big problem. You know, if you get a leak under your sink, you usually find out about it because there's a wet spa. You go to grab something, you pick it up, and everything's dripping. The question is, did you get that open? Did it get down under the cabinets? Did you get it open? Did you get it dry? You know, before it turned into a big problem? Other things that people don't see quickly or know about, which allows them to fester. Is bathrooms, like showers, grout is porous caulking and silicone cracks and lets water in. So what happens in bathrooms is you have this long term slow problem that once it gets behind, once it gets under, it gets there, establishes itself, and then with that slow constant feeding of moisture, it just grows out of control. I've seen people's, oh, my goodness, their shower benches, like a shower bench that gets opened up, and it's just black. Like, the wood is half gone. The framing's half gone because it's so rotten. And then I hope they had it under containment, because I've seen some horrible, nasty ones. Right. But those are bad. And, you know, toilets and old houses, that the. The toilet starts to get shifty. Right. Get soft, because around that gasket, around that seal, it's been slowly going and rotting, and it can just keep going out in that subfloor. Right. So that's not an easy question, Sally, but those are the common places that it occurs. Okay. I hope that. I hope that helps a little bit.

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