You spend eight hours a night in the one room nobody ventilates. That’s bad for your sleep, and ideal for mould.
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You can feel wet when you can see water and when you can’t see water. You can also feel dry even when there’s a lot of water vapor in the air – like during a fire.
Even homes build to code can have built-in health risks, such as being prone to mould. By targeting the places where heat is lost, you can make winter more bearable.
We still hear black mould in our homes described as toxic. But it’s the allergies and asthma they trigger we should be more worried about.
To truly make UK housing safe and healthful for residents, the government needs a comprehensive strategy.
Here are 12 questions worth considering before you sign a residential tenancy agreement.
Usually, mould spores are invisible – but give them a niche to exploit and you’ll get all kinds of colours on the things in your home.
In a damp or water-damaged environment, toxic mould species grow and release spores that can cause health problems if inhaled.
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Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Politics and Public Administration, University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool
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Adjunct academic, mycology, Flinders University
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Lecturer in Social Policy, Research Fellow, University of Bath
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ARC DECRA and Senior Research Fellow, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, Adelaide University
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Professor of Construction Management, Auckland University of Technology
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PhD Candidate, Energy, University of Galway; Atlantic Technological University
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Adjunct lecturer, Victoria University
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Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas at Arlington