From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Monday, November 8, 2010:
The new owners of a North Pole home were renovating the guest bedroom when they discovered black mold festering along the base of a wall.Their real estate agent pointed them to someone who could help.
In mid-October, air quality consultant Bill Reynolds peeled back a layer of paint that had been applied over the mold.
Air samples from the room revealed Stachybotrys (pronounced stacky-bottress) levels of 5,200 spores per cubic meter. The environmental laboratory considers anything more than 600 “of concern,” Reynolds said.
The water, which came from a leaky bathtub pipe next door, soaked the trim along the wall and provided both ingredients for growing mold: moisture and cellulose.
“We were just really disappointed because it was not disclosed in the papers,” said Tanja Glidden, the new homeowner, who is eight months pregnant.