Hi all,
Any advice would be appreciated here. I've googled the internet for hours and cannot find anyone with this problem!
We live in a relatively newly built house (about 4 years old). We noticed a black powdery soot type residue building up in the kitchen cupboards. It appears to be particularly drawn to plastic surfaces. As time went on this got no better so we spoke to the house builders. They had it tested and it's been confirmed to be 'Aspergillus fumigatus'. After googling this and doing some more research it appears to be a type of mould usually found in soils, leaves and compost! How on earth it's building up in our kitchen cupboards is beyond me.
There is no dampness evident in the kitchen and the walls have been tested with a damp-meter to confirm this. We obviously don't leave the cupboard doors open either so it's strange how it seems to build up inside these rather than anywhere else.
Does anyone have any ideas of why we could be getting this problem or have had/heard of anything else remotely similar?
To be fair, the house builders are being very good with their support as they've never seen/heard of it either. My main concern is the health implications - I've two young children who suffer from asthma and after more google searches it doesn't appear to be a very good thing to say the least.
Any help/advice/ideas/speculation would be much appreciated as myself, as well as the housebuilders, are at a bit of a loss to where this is originating from and I'm determined to get to the bottom of it.
Thanks,
James
Any advice would be appreciated here. I've googled the internet for hours and cannot find anyone with this problem!
We live in a relatively newly built house (about 4 years old). We noticed a black powdery soot type residue building up in the kitchen cupboards. It appears to be particularly drawn to plastic surfaces. As time went on this got no better so we spoke to the house builders. They had it tested and it's been confirmed to be 'Aspergillus fumigatus'. After googling this and doing some more research it appears to be a type of mould usually found in soils, leaves and compost! How on earth it's building up in our kitchen cupboards is beyond me.
There is no dampness evident in the kitchen and the walls have been tested with a damp-meter to confirm this. We obviously don't leave the cupboard doors open either so it's strange how it seems to build up inside these rather than anywhere else.
Does anyone have any ideas of why we could be getting this problem or have had/heard of anything else remotely similar?
To be fair, the house builders are being very good with their support as they've never seen/heard of it either. My main concern is the health implications - I've two young children who suffer from asthma and after more google searches it doesn't appear to be a very good thing to say the least.
Any help/advice/ideas/speculation would be much appreciated as myself, as well as the housebuilders, are at a bit of a loss to where this is originating from and I'm determined to get to the bottom of it.
Thanks,
James