COVER STORY p e e K O T T D L O M N A W DON'T LET WATER IN! BY NENA GROSKIND "I grow mold. I grow mold. The truth of water damage shall be told." Please forgive (or ignore) this unkindly assault on a perfectly nice T.S. Eliot poem. But it conveys an essential point about mold-it is caused by water. If you don't have a water problem, you won't have a mold problem. "There's a reason you don't find mold in the desert," Jack Carr, P.E., RS, LEED-AP, a consulting engineer recently retired from Criterium Engineers, observes. 26 CONDOMEDIA April 2020