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	Toxic Mold and the Hidden Room

Geshizar

1-9-2008 3:43 AM

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Geshizar says:

Nasty stuff. I do mold pretreatments and clean-up. I would recommend that everyone check their homeowners policy. It is becoming a common practice for insurance companies to exclude mold damage from policies. Clean-up can be very costly or in extreme cases the home is an entire loss.

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