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When the Mold Comes Back

Failed Clearance Regrowth Behind New Drywall and the Second Claim on an Aggregate Limit

Six months after a paid remediation, the stain is back. Whether that is the old leak, a new one, or a wall that was closed wet decides if you reopen the file, open a new claim, or send the owner to the contractor who did the work.
October 28 Chris Walters

Mold Nobody Spilled

Attic Condensation Crawlspace Humidity and Sweating Ductwork When There Is Growth but No Water Event

Growth on attic sheathing, crawlspace joists, or a sweating duct often has no burst pipe behind it. The inspection has to find the moisture, and the policy usually has no covered cause of loss to hang the colony on.
October 28 Chris Walters

The Wall Between Two Units

Mold in Condos and Apartments When the Water Starts in One Unit and the Damage Shows Up in Another

A failed water heater on the third floor soaks the unit below and a common wall. Which policy pays depends on the association's declaration, and each policy brings its own fungi limit.
October 28 Chris Walters







Sewage, Smoke, and Everything Else in the Air

Telling Category 3 Water Fuel Oil Combustion Residue and Asbestos Apart From a Mold Claim

A musty room, a rotten-egg smell, and a house that makes people cough can be different losses. How to separate sewage, heating oil, smoke residue, and asbestos from mold, and which exclusion each one is likely to meet.
October 19 Chris Walters

The Smell and the Doctor's Note

Health Complaints Additional Living Expense and the Line Between Taking People Seriously and Practicing Medicine

People get sick, or believe they are, in houses that smell wrong. What the CDC and EPA have said about indoor mold, how to handle a physician's letter, and when additional living expense is owed without diagnosing anyone.
October 19 Chris Walters

Dry the Wall Before You Sample It

Water Categories Containment and the Narrow Cases Where an Air Test Should Change the Scope

Mold scopes get inflated in the protocol. What has to come out, what can be dried and cleaned, and when a spore trap is worth the cost, using the standards restoration contractors already cite.
October 19 Chris Walters

The Sublimit Under the Water Loss

How Fungi Exclusions and Limited Mold Coverage Decide Which Dollars on a Wet Wall Get Paid in Full

A covered pipe break and a mold colony in the same wall fall under different parts of the policy. Three files show how the fungi sublimit, the seepage exclusion, and a mixed invoice decide which dollars are paid in full.
October 19 Chris Walters

Forty-Eight Hours to a Colony

How a Wet Wall Becomes Mold Growth and Why the Clock Matters More Than the Species on the Lab Report

Spores are already in the house. Growth starts when materials stay wet, often within two days. Follow a supply-line break from the first hour through the first month, and see what a species list does and does not prove.
October 19 Chris Walters