She complained about the damp and the smell of mildew and the dozens of tasks associated with a second home.

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The books were then freeze-dried, a process that evaporates the ice into gas to stop further water damage or mildew.

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Deeper in the maze-like layout is a windowless detention center, its walls covered in dingy granite tile and smelling of mildew.

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He lived and worked in a poor community and he noticed many residents used material from old billboards for roofing, because it was waterproof and mildew-proof.

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Picking up a pink bunch of roses, Hess shows me he'll be looking at leaves and stems for plant rust, mildew, whitefly and many more bugs.

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The climate in the south of Mali is more humid than in Timbuktu and the fragile rag paper texts are now showing signs of mildew and rot.

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You entered a maze of tiny cramped rooms filled with broken and decrepit tables and chairs, like an attic a hundred years old, decaying objects suffused in cobwebs and mildew.

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Having a mattress pad, particularly of the waterproof kind, is also good to prevent mold and mildew issues, in addition to helping control allergens, said Evan Saks, founder of create-a-mattress.com.

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