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kl asked:


For about three and a half months, the refrigerator in my apartment at school sat dormant – plugged in, but turned off. The only things I left inside were an unopened bottle of wine and an empty Brita pitcher.

When I moved back in, I was horrified to discover a massive amount of black mold – probably at least 20% of the surface area of the interior. When the landlord suggested I leave the fridge off to save electricity, he failed to mention that keeping the door open was required to prevent this from happening.

So, the question: assuming that this mold grew from nothing but the moisture that was inside the fridge, and not a bunch of months-old food, just how toxic or non-toxic is it likely to be? I plan on mixing up a 10-1 water-bleach solution and going to town on it, but should I also being looking for a respirator? And there aren’t any windows anywhere near the kitchen, so ventilation is almost non-existent. Any tips on how to handle this safely?

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pki15 asked:


I recently changed my air conditioning unit’s air filter (it’s been probably 5 months since it was changed). It looked like this:

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I’ve never seen an air filter this bad. Is it possible this is black mold? (I have several boxes full of papers in my house that came out of a house that definitely had a mold problem & the boxes & papers don’t smell so good). We also burn a lot of candles – like we have 2-3 candles lit all evening almost every evening. What do you think? Should I be worried about mold?

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Kelly asked:


Well I told my friend I would help her and research this topic for her since I have a yahoo answers account and she no longer has a computer.
Heres the short sum up of the situation:
•My friend’s roof leaked and she started getting black mold in her house.
•Her daughter is a pretty messy girl and had a bunch of clothes and other personal belongings on the floor.
•A lot of her daughters clothes will have to be thrown out unless they can come up with a remedy/solution to remove mold from clothes.
Anyone got any ideas or had a problem like this or know any advice I could give her because she is really stressed about it, her daughter is all upset, and it would be a shame to have to throw at least a hundred dollars worth of clothes out..
So if anybody could give me any advice to tell her or any actual facts and proved methods or anything I’d greatly appreciate it.
Thanks an advance!! xx

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Colbat asked:


Black mold is in my pantry all I have to do is pay $500 and my insurance will take care of the rest, I have my uncle come look at it and he said that I should wash it off with vinager, so I did that, but there is still marks, I think it may be a pipe bust, but what will they have to do? My uncle said they will rip up the floor in the kitchen and then the wall, to see where it is coming from, it has just started and was on the lower part of one wall and then the floor, how long should it take to replace everything? Because I will have to go to a hotel, the insurence will pay, they wont have to start over on the house right? it would throw of my righting of my book and other things this year.

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Bry28 asked:


I have been seeing these black dots in my shower and I think its mold. they are on top of the clear silicone calk by my shower door on both sides running down horizontally.I have tried clorox claenup and that did not seem to work. I really would like to clean this up my self fast but if I need a proffessional to come in I’ll do it. is this something I can do myself?? what can I do do kill this and keep it from coming back
they are black and brown spots

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