featured In Section 9, Shah Alam, a house had been renovated twice. Behind the living-room air-conditioner the wall read 18 degrees against 33.
Thirty years old, refreshed twice, never replumbed. The thermal camera found a fourteen-degree cold trail behind the living-room air-conditioner in the first hour, the daughter's cornice was black to the...
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A Section 16 bungalow passed its inspection. The report said so, then pointed at three rooms and one wall under the stairs.
Most homes are not in crisis, and this one was not. Ventilation fine, structure sound, air largely within range. What the instruments added was precision: one wall reading 999 in...
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In Bandar Sungai Buaya, the humidity was normal, the air was stale, and three walls read 999 behind two-year-old paint.
The family could smell mould and see none. The walls were clean and freshly renovated. A moisture meter pinned at its maximum on three of them, a timber wall read...
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A Bangsar house stood empty for eighteen months. The inspector's first advice was not to move back in.
No air-conditioning, no open windows, no one home for a year and a half. When the owner returned, black mould had crossed every tiled floor and the bathroom had turned...
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A Bangsar holiday home sat shut for months. The air tested nearly normal. The mattress glowed edge to edge.
The owner came back to a musty smell and visible mould, and the design studio handling the repaint asked for an assessment before the first coat went on. Twelve air...
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In Sutera Spring, a mother asked whether the mould was causing her daughter's constipation. The report said no, and showed its sources.
A fifteen-year-old semi-detached home with mould across the living hall and bedrooms, a daughter working from home in one of them, and a parent's specific health worry. The instruments found...
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A ground-floor flat in Bandar Sri Damansara had one room that never felt right. The air-conditioner on its wall was seeding it.
Nine storeys of other people's plumbing above, sixty-two per cent humidity, and three rooms with three different stories. The master bedroom had a formaldehyde source. The small bedroom had five...
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