Kristina Baehr

That's what's so dangerous.

The old ones are a lot safer than the new ones.

They don't give a shit about the people.

But besides that, it's because the new regulations require these houses to be airtight.

And so they put in spray foam.

And when you make it airtight and then you make the air toxic because of

water damage or whatever's happening, then those toxins become, it's like a bubble, right?

It becomes a toxic bubble because the house doesn't breathe.

So looking for a new house in Austin, I went around with a mold assessor and I went to six different houses and I took tests at each of them.

And I had this theory that the oldest house was going to be the safest, and I was right.

Wow.

The 1904 house was safer than the 2022 house.

Way safer.

Good.

It's more common in humid climates, but it's common anywhere where you have air conditioning and spray foam, right?

Because if you oversize that HVAC, you're going to grow moisture in the walls, and it's going to become toxic.

The mold can grow in the spray foam.

When we opened our walls, we saw moldy spray foam.

because of the humidity problem.

So ultimately, in my case, when we went to trial, we went to trial against the HVAC company because the HVAC company hadn't connected it to dehumidify as it was intended.