Ozone Generator to clear Mold and Dr... 
Palaecro
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Hi guys,
I apologize ahead of time if I'm treading on a topic that has already been answered but I'm relatively new to the use of Ozone besides my experiences with hydrogen peroxide.
I recently found out that I have a mold infestation in my home and it is the cause of serious breathing problems I have been experiencing for the past year. It has gotten to the point where I'm now on medical leave and cannot work until I resolve this issue, I can avoid the major infested room which was my former bedroom and I find I can get by but it's not enough. So to jump to my point I need help in picking the right type of ozone generator that can completely wipe out the mold.
I already threw out various of pieces of furniture that tested positive for mold, but I want to purify EVERYTHING.
This is what I hope to get out of it and what I'm looking to spend.
1. Room by room purification, the model does not need to be strong enough to purify the entire house in one go but enough so that within 2 days of running on high it can completely purify each room I put it into. The rooms vary in size from that of a small bathroom to a medium sized bedroom.
2. Ideally if it can also be used to purify drinking water this is a bonus, if not this is ok too as I plan on buying a water ozonator in addition if this one can't.
3. At the moment because of financial constraints I would only be able to spend up to $200 on one. However if there are models that run up to $400 that are far superior please let me know in which case I'll do what I need to buy it now.
I've done some reading around the forums here especially the RN posts but haven't come across one that gave me 100% clarity of exactly it is that I need.
Also if the ozone generator is powerful enough to destroy mold will it also break down wiring, books or anything else I should be aware of in my room. When ozone purifying a room do all the contents within the room need to be removed?
If you guys have any links or any info at all to help me it is GREATLY appreciated, as I desperately need to solve this problem. Overall I just want to get on with purifying my house so I can finally sleep in my bedroom again without feeling as though I'm suffocating.
PS. I'm posting this in the black mold forum as well, although I am not certain if the mold I've been exposed to is black mold or not, I figure the people in this forum would probably know a lot about destroying mold in general.
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- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... ozoneman
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This is a reply to # 1,240,367Hi Palaecro
Sorry to hear of your mold misfortune. We seem to be hearing of this more often all the time.
Ozone will eridicate the problem, but only temporarily. Unless the conditions which allowed the proliferation of mold to exist are eliminated ie moisture, lack of ventilation etc., the mold will come back once the ozone is gone.
That said, if you want to purify the rooms with ozone and have the bonus of being able to ozonate water too, I would suggest the ASO 250 from AquaSun. It only produces between 200 and 250 mg of ozone per hour but at least this is a real amount and not some inflated amount based on a dart thrown at a board like the chinese ozonators.
You will need additionally an aquarium pump and a bit of cheap tubing to connect the pump to the ozonator, a bit of ozone tubing and a bubbler to ozonate your water, and a fan to spread the ozone around the room. All of this would probably come in at less than $250.00 to your door. It would take only about 24 hours to sterilize a small room with this unit.
Ozone interacts with latex and rubber. It eats VCR belts like candy. Books are OK. Wiring and usual stuff in a house is OK. I would remove electronic items.
Best of luck. You can find our website in my profile.
Cheers,
paul
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- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... golfeggs
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This is a reply to # 1,243,038Hi Paul,
I know you've said before that ozone eats up plastice and rubber things before, but I've been doing this for years and have never had any of the problems you mention. Nothing in my house has ever suffered from having ozone everywhere inside the house. The mold is gone on the outside of the house which shows it can go through just about anything, considering I use it on the inside of the house and it killed the mold on the outside of the house. I'm just wondering or trying to figure out why you have experienced these problems and I haven't? (I use the plasmafire generator at 1/2 lpm)- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... cora
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This is a reply to # 1,243,927>>The mold is gone on the outside of the house which shows it can go through just about anything
Unbelievable. I sure haven't had such luck and had mine cranked around the clock. Inside, yes. Outside? Ha. I wish.
But no latex, plastic, rubber melting either. Electronics survived too.
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Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... golfeggs
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This is a reply to # 1,244,330I guess seeing is believing? Here's our house. Notice the mold is around the garage? No ozone there. Our living area has no mold. So you tell me why when it used to be worse than the garage. And it all dissapeared within three months after we started using ozone. And by the way, my wife's cancer did the same thing within that same time period.
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=333909
- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... Quinta_Essentia
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This is a reply to # 1,247,201your post is making me wonder if the cancer and the mold were connected?
- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... golfeggs
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This is a reply to # 1,247,227The doctors said her cancer started years before from a bad endometriosus (bad spelling I'm sure) operation. She had the cancer before the mold appeared, but who knows. The main point is ozone got rid of the cancer twice when the doctors said she was going to die. She should have been dead twice, years ago according to doctors. That fact made me realize the world isn't what it appears to be and lead me on a long fact finding journey that has showed me it's waaaaaaaay worse than I thought. I hope the sheer shock that doctor had seeing my wife's cancer was gone again lead him on a different journey too.
- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... golfeggs
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- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... cora
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- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... Quinta_Essentia
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- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... cora
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- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... pathseeker
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This is a reply to # 1,243,038Hi, thanks, I;m trying to use a 250 to remediate mold in a 1 bdrm today. i have a concentrator, i ended up with a 250p (potentiometer) and am confsed. was that 24 hours on air fed, is it less effective on oxygen fed? when i turn up the pmeter it seems to act like its airfed even though cnneteced to concentrator, as if drawing more air in addition to the supplied ox (produces unbreathable air, just like the commercial air fed i rented once a few months ago) (when lower pmeter level just ozone smell). but theres no pump besides in the concentrator so confused, how it could draw additional.. and while connected. trying to figure out how to effectively use it. Thanks so much!!!
- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... golfeggs
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- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... jasony
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This is a reply to # 1,240,367As a Council-certified Indoor Environmental Consultant I never recommend ozone generators for improving indoor air quality whether there is a mold situation or not. But, to keep things on your situation, ozone hasn't been shown to kill mold. For more information on ozone generating "air purifiers" see: http://www.arb.ca.gov.
Another learning source comes from the EPA: http://www.epa.gov/03healthtraining.
The second acts as an educational tool with a lot of good information to help educate people about these kinds of things.- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... HanSolo
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This is a reply to # 1,326,603I'm not a certified indoor environmental consultant, but I do work in government. I'm somewhere in between support staff and and management.
Let's just say what the government says is often times not really the truth... sometimes it is, but not too often. Especially federal agencies regarding human health.- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... jasony
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This is a reply to # 1,326,878Ok. Let me give you some non-governmental research and study material on ozone. Like I said, as a Council-certified Indoor Environmental Consultant I do not recommend ozone generating devices to my clients. First off, available scientific evidence shows that at concentrations that do not exceed public health standards, ozone has little potential to remove indoor air contaminants; and, secondly, whether pure or mixed with other chemicals, ozone can be harmful to health. Here is a non-governmental study and educational resource: http://www.ehso.com/ehshome/airozonegenerators.htm.
These guys "are chemists, engineers and environmental professionals. We believe that factual, verifiable and easy-to-understand information needs to be provided to the public to help people make better decisions about the products and services they buy and their family's health." I hope that this helps to clear the air in relation to ozone and its effectiveness as a positive air purifying element. The last thing I'll add is that no air purifier should take the place of source control and moisture control. If someone has a situation regarding mold infestation in their built environment (whether physical on building components or an indor air quality pollutant), controlling moisture, making sure ventilation is correct, and removing the source are the basic and foundation of good remedial practice (as outlined in all Regulatory, Standard and Guidline practices). Finally, I might add, contacting the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (the people that wrote the Standard for Professional Mold Remediation) can help too. There is a gentleman there named Jeff Bishop who is their technical advisor. They can also explain (outside a government body) ozone and its impact on the indoor air quality, etc. Best wishes.
- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... ozoneman
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This is a reply to # 1,327,729Hi jasony
I would love to read this article but your link does not work.
- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... jasony
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This is a reply to # 1,327,896I will just type in the link I just used to get into it for you here; if this doesn't work, I'll be happy to email the page to you direct. Just contact me and I'll send it or any of the others I shared on here to you.
http://www.ehso.com/ehshome/airozonegenerators.htm
I hope this works ok. Sorry for the problems with the link.- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... jasony
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- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... jasony
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- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... ozoneman
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- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... Derick
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This is a reply to # 1,326,603Well,
Air purifiers work to remove bacteria and other contaminants from the air we breathe. They get rid of possible allergens, as well as cigarette or tobacco smoke and asthma-causing microorganisms. Air purifiers clean the air using filters, through various processes like carbon filtering and UV air purification.
Air purifiers come in all shapes and sizes. There are those manufactured for commercial use and those especially made for the home. Commercial air purifiers are larger and bulkier, meant to filter enough air for office space and even buildings. These kinds of air purifiers serve large groups of people, providing enough clean air for the entire workplace. Meanwhile, home air cleaners are more compact and can be placed anywhere inside a house.
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http://www.A1AirFilters.com
- Re: Ozone Generator to clear Mold an... HanSolo
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