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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (104050)	5/14/2005 7:16:09 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Oh my God. Well, if you aren't going to write a book, it's not because I didn't suggest it. Lithium is both a terrible and a wonderful med. It can have awful side effects. I have a question maybe you can answer. We have always had a sort of damp cellar. I say "cellar" because it's not a basement, it's just the earth-floored sort of low-ceilinged hole under this 180 + or - year old farm house where the heater and furnace are. The edges of the cellar have always been damp, it's much damper now. Much of the woods above our house on this mountain has been, in the last couple of years, cut down, for two large houses whose owners wanted vast expanses of lawn instead of woods. The very next new house above us removed so many trees that for the first time we can see other houses on this side of the road. That's when our cellar started getting damper. Then someone else built above that neighbor and removed just as many trees, and neighbor number one has had to build an elaborate underground system to keep the torrents of runoff from the guy above from turning his house into a houseboat. The only effect this has had on us (except that we don't live in the woods any more and the new near neighbor is now our dentist, and he's a really good dentist) is that instead of just the edges of the earth cellar being damp, the entire floor down there is damp, and sometimes quite wet. There's no smell of mildew or mold. But it's worrying me that it's all damp down there. How could mold not develop? We do keep the cellar door open during the day when it's sunny out. Do you have any suggestion for something like a spray or powder (preferably something that wouldn't kill us) that would discourage the growth of fungus in that situation? Do you think as long as we don't smell anything fungus-y and feel fine we shouldn't worry about a damp cellar?