Kristen Van Gilse (Organimama)

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · How One Mom Beat a Hidden Mold Infestation—Step by Step! | @the.organimama · 16 Jan 2026 podcast

And the reason why I say unfinished is because finished basements also very commonly have moisture issues that are hidden behind the finished walls.

And so we were only considering something where we could fully see what was happening in an unfinished basement or on a slab.

Ideally, the perfect kind of age for a home is between 5 and 10 years old.

And so homes that are older than 10 years, there's just more time there that it's more likely that some kind of water event has happened, right?

Like a flood or a leak or an overflowing toilet or something like that.

And then homes that are newer than five years oftentimes haven't existed long enough for all of the potential problems to show up.

And so we were looking for something in that five to ten year range and we found a home that was eight years old and that's the one we ended up buying.

But there's other things to look for like a complicated roof line is actually something you want to avoid because the more points and curves and turns on a roof line.

Oh, that's the I love that stuff because I like weird houses.

They look.

They look amazing.

But there's just so many more points of contact in that roofing setup for water to be a problem.

Yeah, that makes sense.

And it's also harder to maintain a roof that's complicated.

So like an A-frame house, perfect.

And then other things too is like you want to look at the grading of the yard.

So if the house is kind of sitting in a low point and there's yard that slopes up around it, that's generally a sign that water is going to be running down toward that house when it rains.

So you want to see that the grading of the yard is sloped away from the home and that there is not shrubbery right up next to the house because you don't want to have vegetation like plants or bushes growing right against the house.

There should be like a two foot gap there so that when those plants need to be watered, you're not spraying water right on the base of your house.

Oh, wow.

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