Why is mold growing on my clothes?

All right, Danielle's asking a good question here, and it is. She's been living in her home for a year without any mold problems. The house isn't humid, but three months ago, her walk in wardrobe clothes started getting moldy after three to four weeks. Even if I didn't wear them, what can I do? Okay, so if you have mold forming in a closet, you've got two, at least two things happening. One, you've got poor airflow. Like mold growing in closets is not uncommon. And in my mold proof your home masterclass, I talk about, like spare rooms, especially rooms over garages that people don't use. And sometimes they shut off the vents. They don't keep it climate controlled because they don't really use it. And they're just setting the stage for mold because without that airflow, mold spores can sit and not be aggravated and just start to take root and grow. So if closets are notorious for this too. And even with our own kids, if I go to their closet and I see they got a stack full and stuff touching the walls, I say, you got to get everything off your walls. I need air to be able to move everywhere in there. And with our teens, they don't close their closet doors so hair can go in and go through everything. I just don't want stuff stacked against the walls. And we find that you can find that even with, like closets that don't get any closets that don't get used a lot. Like in our hallway over here, in the kid down where the kids bedrooms and bathroom are, there's like a coat closet that nobody really uses, but apparently they do use it because the doors are always open some. And I don't know why, because I've never. I've never used anything out of that closet. But somebody must. But my point is, when I see the doors open a bit, I don't worry about it because I'm always looking at everything from a mold point of view. And you need airflow. So it could be that there's not just enough, there's just not enough airflow in there, but there has to be moisture. If molds literally growing on clothes, it will not do that without some moisture. Now it doesn't. You've got all your different molds and their different moisture level requirements, like hydrophilic needs more water. Your mesophilic is kind of where our houses usually sit. You know, 30, 40, 50% humidity. And then what we got, zero philic and zero tolerant. Those are molds that just grow even with Very little humidity. And once mold starts, it doesn't always need much humidity or moisture to keep growing. But to get that initial growth, especially in like a closet you use and on clothes, there has to be some form of moisture present to get that started. Right. It's kind of like when a farmer plants a seed. If you put it in a dry, dry seed bed, it can start to swell, but it just dies. There's not enough moisture for it to go. And that's why you don't work your field real deep or you can plant after a small rain. I grew up on a farm. And you want that seed to go right into a moist seed bed with dry on top. Right. And then it'll swell and grow and roots go down just like moles. So it needed some moisture. So I would buy some cheap hygrometers off Amazon, put them around the house, put one in that closet and see what the moisture levels at, and make sure there's airflow in there. So if you have a register or something, make sure it's not covered. That air can be circulating to keep that air moving. But other than that, I'm not. And I'm curious if there's a mold problem in the rest of the house somewhere that you have all these spores readily available to land on the clothes to start a problem. So I would consider doing an URMI on the home, just to check, you know, to see if there is a mold problem already in the home. So that's what I'm thinking. I hope that helps.

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