03/04/2026
Chicoooo its the rainy time of the year which means humidity which leadsss to mooold in your house 🤮 Please my loves do not push your furniture all the way up to the wall. This is ESPECIALLY important on exterior walls because houses are built with intentional gaps specifically to allow airflow. Then with the temperature difference inside vs outside if your house is older or less insulated there will be little condensation lines on the walls around the furniture that will 100% grow mold over time. This isnt college boo let's pull the furniture away from the walls a bit 🤣 I know real estate in California is expensive and we want to maximize our square footage, but it'll cost you a lot more when your house starts growing black mold throughout the walls like in Jumanji. 🤣 Ok, so jokes aside, here are some Norcal specific tips to help your house dry out this time of the year
• Run your bathroom ventilation fan at leeeast one hour after showers. They use so little electricity you could run it like your ceiling fans and not change your PGE bill in a significant way
• Neverrrr leave your toilet seat closed. You have to think about it logically. Toilet water is typically room temperature, right? And when you're closing the lid, you're trapping all that humidity and hot air inside the toilet. That combined with obvious lingering bacteria- it causes mold to grow rapidly. Fret not Pam your goofy little cat will only fall into the toilet a couple times before it figures it tf out. It'll be doing the back stroke in no time at all 🤣
• Same concept as to why you dont close the shower door- this is why I personally hate glass doors on showers- they trap moisture and causes your lines to turn pink orange. Another one would be dont keep your shower products on the floor against the wall.
• Keep your window tracks clean! A lot of people don't know this, but if you take the sliding window piece out of the wall there's *normally* a piece of track that pops out, you know, like the part that the window actually slides on. Well, underneath that part every window has drain holes that lead out and down the exterior wall. If there's too much dirt underneath your track or maybe there's moss growing in it, then the air will not be able to come through from the outside when the wind blows thus adding toooo..... youuu gooot ittt... MOOOLDDD GROWTHHHH 🤣🙌🏾🤣🙌🏾🤣🙌🏾 *Imagine me screaming that like Oprah in that you get a car episode*
Fun fact when we were stationed in El Paso I rolled up toilet paper and shoved it in the cracks of my windows because I was so tired of having to completely deep clean my house every time we had a dust storm!
• Buy a dehumidifier to dry out the air a bit
• Open the blinds
• Raise them a few inches for airflow
• Turn your ceiling fans to the correct direction for winter and run those thangsss to move air!
• Point your air registers to blow towards the walls not the room. A lot of people don't know, but just like ceiling fans are directional for different times of the year, so are your hvac registers in the ceiling or the floor 🤯
Please don't sleep on our suggestions, because we're not just saying it to hear ourselves talk. Your home as likely your biggest investment and it takes a lot of work from all parties to maintain it properly.
Now pretend this is Watch What Happens Live and take a drink every time I said mold. Just kidding, you'll die 😆💀
