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I know I'm a broken record: but try ozone. It kills bacteria, mold, viruses, and oxidizes VOCs and any other carbon based chemical. I doesn't just kill mold, it dissolves them into nothing, so airborne spores are destroyed too. That is what is bothering you and nothing else can touch them until after they have landed and started growing mold again. That's what makes you sick, when they hatch on your mucus membranes and overload your immune system. You want to destroy spores before they get into you to reduce the toxin load and feel better. Your mold problem is confirmed, you know the roof was leaking. The wet wood has been infected with mold, so mold will always be in that wood, and will always infect your house until that wood in the walls is replaced, which will probably never happen. Winter dries out the mold slime and causes it to make spores. Ime, these are the strongest mold toxin. Spores go everywhere the air goes and will hatch wherever they find moisture, which is your exposed mucus membranes, raising the immune system load which makes you feel bad if your immunity is not high enough to handle the toxins that mold excretes. It is believed that black mold aspergilis nigris living inside a cell is a necessary ingredient in turning a healthy cell into cancer. Every cancer cell biopsy cultures this mold. This is the black mold that grows on wet wood and sheetrock paper.Last time you were going to DIY an ozone generator but that doesn't make adequate quantity and why fuck around when you are trying to protect yourself from humans' #1 natural enemy? They have you on the ropes, you need a nuke. You need to flood the house with it, so you need a strong commercial machine. Once you see what it can do you will use it often for the rest of your life. You have compromised immunity or you wouldn't be reactive so badly, so the ozone machine will ease your symptoms while you work to rebuild your immunity.It can knock down the smell of aldehyde latex paint if it is high enough mg/hour. Mine is this one, only 1800mg/h max setting. I put it in the room I am painting and it makes it about half as bad while it is drying, but doesn't totally erase the smell like a more powerful machine would. I would sometimes like a stronger one, like when I visit a hotel room or beach rental with lying broker that says no animals and no smoke and newly redecorated but stinks like a swamp. Mine stops everyone's sneezing but it takes a few hours and I have to run it the whole week. A few hours of 3500 or even 7000mg/h might take it down in one hit. When I bought mine, they were hard to find and all these commercial models on Amazon weren't available to the public. I don't know if they are well built since they are so cheap and made in China, but even if it only works for a couple months it will ease your suffering until you can get out.
I believe some of your information is incorrect, and potentially could be more harmful than whatever contaminate is within the OPs apartment. I would suggest reading this.http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/ozonegen.htmlAccording to the environmental protection agency, Ozone is harmful to the respiratory system, and at levels of ozone that are considered within the public health standard parameters, do not do anything to remove mold, bacteria, or spores from the air.
You say you live in an apartment. Could it be possible that people in an adjacent apartment might be cooking up something illegal like meth? I don’t know were you live, just thought I’d mention it as a possibility. Sorry to hear about about your problem.
