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The Reality of Reopening: More Mold
After being locked in, “sheltering in place”, a family decided enough was enough and they booked an AirBnB vacation home in North Carolina. The area had experienced an extremely wet and rain spring season. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the rental home had sat empty since early March. When the family unlocked and opened the front door they were hit with an odor like wet beach towels left too long in a hot car. While nobody else had moved in, mold did.
This ongoing pandemic has caused many properties and businesses to remain vacant for long periods of time. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning people who are reopening their buildings that they may find that mold has taken over. When a house is left vacant, there is no one to spot roof or plumbing leaks as they occur. When that happens, along with leaving the air conditioning system off to save money, humidity can get out of control and can lead to the perfect conditions for mold to take root.
Vacation homes and foreclosed properties commonly have problems with mold. Some of this can be blamed on new construction techniques that do a better job of sealing up homes. But being vacant for long periods of time adds to the possible problem. Schools and businesses also are finding these same mold issues upon reopening.
The last people out of many vacation rentals are carpet cleaning crews. They clean the carpet with hot water extraction and lockup when they leave. The pandemic strikes and the next houseguests cancel their booking so the house remains closed up. The house remains locked up with added humidity from the carpet cleaning and mold begins to grow. That’s just one of the many possible scenarios of mold taking over.
If you own a North Carolina vacation home or a business that has been shut down since the pandemic started, you may discover that you suddenly have a mold problem. The best thing you could do is to contact Water Mold Fire Restoration of Raleigh at (919) 296-5734. We are a nationally certified mold remediation company and we are available 24/7 to answer any question you may have concerning mold in your vacation home or business. Our inspection of your property is always free of charge, so you have nothing to lose and only our years of experience in removing mold to gain. Call us today!
