I keep our cats' food in a plastic garbage can with locking lidI think my kids put a little water in there because I just discovered that the bottom layer of food is melted together, hard, and covered with white, green and black moldsNot only do I feel terrible that I've been exposing my cats to mold, I'm wondering about my family and the rest of my house.Is it likely that, having found black mold in my cats' food container, I will find black mold elsewhere in my house? We have no basement or attic, but we have very poor insulation, and I wouldn't be surprised if the spaces between the walls gets quite dampA couple of our windows leak when it rains.If there is black mold on food, is it best to assume it's in the walls as well?
Cellulose insulation is usually a bad choice for wallsIt has a tendency to settle, and this leaves you with voids at the top of the wallIt would be better to use a fiberglass batt or the foam products.
I'm not sure what its called, my what my father and I used was this pink, fuzzy, itchy stuff between paper that we could cut to fit into the spaces inside the wallWe just called it insulation, so I don't know if there is a more technical name for itI do know that my home stays cool in the summer and is incredibly easy to warm in the winter, so the stuff really worksWe got it at Lowe's Hardware.
Why are you concerned with just black mold? There are other colors- green, orange, white The best way to get mold is to have air tight containers with moist food such as plastic bags Old log cabins have stood over 100 years and you can bet they did not have window glassSo the rain came in The air came in too and dried out the spotsSo the air circulation is the trick However your house should have a layer of oilpaper under the siding or whatever clads the outside of the houseThe oil paper is what stops the water from hitting the walls directly(that and the outside cladding-be it siding, plaster, stucco, etc) So no water gets insideUnless you have a hole you did not get fixed Insulation does not stop water and wet insulation does not insulate Fix the windows and leave them open a crack(1/4) continuallyto allow the inside moisture to escape Even on rainy days moisture escapes You living there donating a lot of moisture, from showers, toilets, baths, plant waterings, washing dishes, passing gas, sweating, washing clothes.making coffee you can probably see a few moreCats don't explode into green goo - is is more an off shade of greenish-brown And stinky!
