Allison Evans

And the house that we built right now was kind of a response to our entire journey.

We have moved 10 times in the past 12 years.

And a lot of that has had to do with mold.

I mean, we've dealt with black mold.

I mean, I have an entire mold story and I've learned so much.

And so if I could just sum up my building process, we ended up buying a 1950s home, took it down to the slab, basically.

The entire building process,

The thing that was driving every decision was mold, mold prevention, I should say.

Making sure that the way that we were sealing our windows, the materials we're choosing, the HVAC filter we're using, even down to like the carpet we're using and what can hold more mold and what's more mold resistant like wool.

I mean, every single decision, the way we're doing our flashing and our drainage, like all kind of had to do with preventing getting mold again because we've been so burned.

Deuteronomy.

Tight homes because we want to save on our air conditioning bills.

I mean, it's always kind of just one bandaid after another.

We want to put a bunch of spray foam in our house, but that's actually one of the biggest drivers of mold.

I mean, we just went back and used formaldehyde-free bat insulation.

I mean, talking about going back to basics, you know, it wasn't that much more expensive.

Some of our swaps that we used to build a non-toxic home were actually less expensive.

Yes, our baby registry post, I think is the most searched of anything that we have on our website because that's when people really start waking up.

I love this question.

And I actually have, I have two quick answers.