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Let me tell you right up front, I run OdorXit Products and we sell odor control products that really work.

That being said, we get many phone calls from people who either have not read the relevant information about their odor problem on the OdorXit website or did not believe what they read. Though recently there have been a bunch of calls from people who have started using a dehumidifier in their wet moldy basement and as a direct result the apparent mold odor got much worse.

After giving this some thought and remembering what I had read regarding what happens as mold fungus goes into its dormant state.

When the mold fungus is deprived of water:

• The fungus drys up and looks funny, as soon as the water (vapor) starts to disappear,
• And in a desperate effort to propagate, the mold fungus produces millions of microscopic spores (seeds) that float in the air in order to  move to a more hospitable place.
• Finally the fungus changes into its dormant state.

These spores are looking for a warm, wet, dark place to root and start a new life. If this criterion for a friendly place to live sounds familiar, it should. One is inside your chest called your lungs.

From the mold’s standpoint, this turns out to be not a vary friendly place to call home because of your immune system. Even if you are not “allergic” to mold or spores, your immune system takes this invasion very seriously and does what it knows how to do to fight off the intrusion.

The down side of the action taken by your immune system is that when it is triggered into action, it doesn’t just make the anti-bodies that fight off the mold infestation, it also makes all the anti-bodies you have ever produced to fight off every sickness you have ever had in the past.  Some of these anti-bodies can make you feel pretty bad.

Using the OdorXit ClO2 Product to kill the mold and spores is the easiest, cheapest, most effective way to rid your living space of mold and mold spores. It also gets rid of lots of other nastys too.

For lots more information check out OdorXit ClO2. There is lots of good inforation there.

Mold, mildew, musty odors are all from the same source and can be very difficult to eliminate with normal over the counter products. People use bleach, ammonia, detergent, paint, sealers, and a bunch of other stuff that is messy, hard to use, and normally ineffective. Most people who think or knot they have mold are willing to try almost any concoction of cleaners and chemicals to eliminate mold. After all, just having a mold test done (just to see it mold is really the problem) can cost for $200 to $600 depending on were you live and who you have do the work.

The really down side is that if the test is positive (you actually have mold) in many states you have to disclose the contents of the test to any perspective buyer of the property. Even if you have payed the big bucks to have the mold remediation and it was 100% successful, the disclosure is still required and can cost you 10s of thousands of dollars at the closing table.

Until recently, if you had mold in your home and you were serious about removing it,  you were limited to contracting with the guys in the HAZMAT suits and paying thousands of dollars for their services. In addition, disposing of any mold infected clothing, books, papers, toys, furniture etc, was mandatory.  Just the throw away costs could run into the thousands of dollars worth of antiques, documents, books furniture and family heirlooms. Often, the chemicals used to kill the mold were nearly as bad as the mold itself.

Well treating mold has changed for the better. OdorXit has taken a very old chemical technology and combined it with new packaging materials to produce a product that will produce a gas called chlorine dioxide (ClO₂). This gas in  high concentrations (above 10 part per million or .00001% in air) is pretty nasty stuff, but in the concentrations that are produced by the product we call OdorXit® ClO₂ slow release, it is both safe and effective at killing mold, mold spores, tobacco smoke, fire smoke, cooking smoke, bacteria and viruses.

OdorXit® ClO₂ is provided in 5, 10, 25, and 50 gram packets that are designed to safely treat areas as small as a closet or bathroom to a 4000 square foot storage facility. There are 2 minor requirements; there must be at least 40% humidity in the area of treatment (or you have to add a tiny amount of water to the packet) and you need to have a low speed fan to stir the are in the area being treated to circulate the ClO₂ to all the places that need treating. The treatment time varies from a few hours to a week, but when complete, the mold is dead and so are the mold spores.

So if you are having a problem with mold there is now a really effective solution that does not cost thousands of dollars to implement and cause all sorts of problems down the road.

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