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5 signs you have mold in your home<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Our story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our mold story is one of irony. Before our current home, we lived in a house built in 1958 that had a visible mold problem in the front bathroom. As many times as I wanted to take a sledgehammer to that pale yellow, 1950\u2019s tile I was much too concerned about what was behind the walls to tackle a renovation. So we left the house flipping to the investors who bought our house and move into our much newer, absolutely beautiful and well-kept (or so we thought) home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was because of our doTERRA business<\/a> we were able to move from that old, crowded urban neighborhood to the peacefulness and spaciousness of the country. And guess what our beautiful new home had  \u2013 besides gorgeous crown molding, floor-to-ceiling windows everywhere and more than double the space? You guessed it \u2026.. mold. And now four years later we just went through our EIGHTH mold remediation. I don\u2019t want anyone to go through what we have so I\u2019m here to share 5 signs you have mold in your home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did we find out we had mold?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We moved in in April 2015. Texas has torrential rain that year. The week we moved in it had rained so much water was just sitting everywhere in the yard, the ground too full to absorb any more. And it continued to rain for the rest of the year. By the fall we were all starting to get sick. I coughed, literally, 60 days straight. My airways became so irritated I could hardly say a few sentences without coughing. I began to spend most of my days on the couch resting (and losing my mind). My kids and husband were coughing too. I kept telling my husband something was up with the house but he blamed it on moving to the country (why don\u2019t they ever listen to us??).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then one day during a particularly fierce rainstorm we came into the dining room and saw water dripping from the top corners of our floor-to-ceiling picture windows. I knew right that moment that I was right \u2013 and that we had mold in our home. We quickly checked all the other windows and found that the room our two youngest sons shared also had water pooling on the windowsill. Because the blinds were almost always closed it could have been happening repeatedly but we couldn\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you sue sellers for not disclosing?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It turns out the windows had been leaking well before we moved in. Because there was a dresser in front of the window the inspector did not look at that window. Only the sellers know if that dresser was there on purpose but it seems likely. They had caulked that window repeatedly and even cut out and replaced the drywall at one point \u2013 and we had no idea.  I was an extremely angry mama bear for a while. Their negligence made my babies extremely sick!! But at the end of the day, all that mattered was getting our home safe again and healing our bodies. We consulted a lawyer but mold cases in Texas are very hard to win. It was very costly but the clean up but it was worth it (more on that below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 signs you may have mold in your home<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  1. You visibly see mold<\/li>
  2. You smell mold or a musty smell<\/li>
  3. Water is leaking inside through a window<\/li>
  4. Signs of moisture in caulking, trim, walls, etc. (cracks, stains)<\/li>
  5. Your family members are sick \u2013 respiratory issues, headaches, earaches, trouble concentrating, shortened attention span, memory loss, sneezing, runny noses, red eyes, and skin rashes and dizziness<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Remember we could not see anything or smell anything and it was months before we saw water actually coming into the house. But our bodies were telling us long before that something wasn\u2019t right.
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    Symptoms we had from mold:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n