if you have an airborne contamination then you don’t want to use fans except where the contaminated space is sealed from noncontaminated space, otherwise you are just spreading the hazard.
Bumping a zombie thread. Have some green mold on the laundry room wall (took samples and the lab told me it was Aspergillus and/or Penicillium.) Wonder if ventilating the apartment for a few days and wiping up the green mold with hydrogen peroxide or white vinegar would suffice?
Also, since this is next to the kitchen, I wonder from a chemistry standpoint what happens if mycotoxins are heated up by fire or hot coils, does it neutralize them? (The stuff that wafts over)
Not much has changed since 2011. See https://www.cdc.gov/mold/stachy.htm, which was cited by chiroptera early in the string. Ignore all the posts from people who are in the mold “remediation” business.
The junior CDC investigator who originally attributed lung disease in hospitalized infants to Stachybotrys blew it, and the CDC should be ashamed for not publicly chastising itself. It scared a lot of people and wasted a lot of resources (although it did create a lot of jobs). But the information on the lack of toxicity of molds now published by the CDC and the World Health Organization is correct. You should read it.
In general, kill mold and make it less visible with dilute bleach. Then prevent its return by keeping humidity <60%.
You have a water leak …
After you’ve fixed that and dried out everything the “vegetative” parts of the mold should die … but the spores will linger …
I’m in the “not that big of a deal” camp and would just do a thorough housecleaning and call the job done … if the mold was really bad then I’d put a thick coat of oil-based paint on the walls (or oil-based primer and a coat of latex) …
Some people are hyper-sensitive to certain molds … if this is the case with you and yours then you should get a professional in to remediate the problems … this is the “honeybee” approach, most people are fine getting stung but a few need emergency medical treatment …