Mold grows and develops a foothold if one allows a room’s humidity to get too high for too long, but if you dehydrate the room environment back to a dry state, does it inhibit the mold from growing or doing anything further (emitting mycotoxins, sending out spores, etc.) or does the mold just do its thing from that point regardless of humidity %?
Once you dry it out, you’re fine. The people telling you that you need to rip everything out are the people selling you those services. Don’t fall for it
From Skeptoid Podcast:
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This is all true, as long as you can keep the moisture away. But if the fungus has sporulated, those spores can remain dormant and viable for years, awaiting the next dampness event.
It’s not “dry it out, forget about it forever.”
Yeah, the mold can & will return as soon as moisture or humidity levels go back up. They may not even need to get as high as originally triggered the mold growth in the first place, to allow spores to resume life.