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Where to Check for Mold Before You Buy Your Next Home
When you begin your search for your next home, even if it is a new build, it is important to inspect for mold before you sign that contract to buy. The last thing you need to do is inherit someone else’s mold problem. Just looking inside cabinets and vanities, or in dark corners of the basement and not seeing any mold is no guarantee that mold is not present. Mold could be lurking inside wall cavities, under flooring or behind bathroom wallpaper. Unless you do a thorough mold inspection BEFORE you buy, you really won’t know for sure.
Staying Home During a Mold Remediation
It’s a fact, you and your family do not have to leave your home during a mold remediation. It all depends on where the work is needed and the amount of the work required. Also it is important to consider the health or mold sensitivity of anyone residing in the home at that time the work needs to be done.
12 Important Mold Statistics for 2021
Reports say that around 70% of U.S. homes contain a certain level of mold. Mold damages your home structurally and threatens the health of everyone living in the home. Here are 12 important statistics about mold and air pollution caused by mold.
Why are Mushrooms Growing in my Carpet?
You have just moved a heavy piece of furniture and found mushrooms growing on your carpet and you want to know why this is happening. What you need to understand is that the growth of mushrooms is a symptom of a problem, but not the cause of the problem. Mushrooms are the natural progression of mold. As mold progresses through its growth cycle, from Hypae growth to spore formation to spore dispersal to spore generation, mushrooms are the final stage.
Garage Mold Removal
Mold is often times found in the garage. The reason is that most homeowners spend very little actual time in their garages. If you don’t count having to drive your car, it’s usually a place to store things that aren’t being used on a daily basis.
Closet Water Damage
A flooded basement, a sewage backup, or a broken pipe gushing water are easy to find right away. But if the leak is a slow leak and hidden in a closet or behind a closet wall, you may not notice the damage as quickly.
Closet Mold Removal
Water damage in any room of your home is a bad thing, but water damage in your bedroom can be particularly devastating. If you think about it, you spend more time out of every day in your bedroom. If a water damage turns into a mold problem, your health could be more affected because of the time you spend in that one room. Also your bedroom probably contains more of your irreplaceable personal items than almost any other room in your house. Think about clothes, pictures, important documents, and family mementos that you keep in the bedroom.
Mold Mites
What are mold mites? First discovered in1781, mold mites are tiny little arthropods, (arthropod family members include lobsters, crabs, spiders, and many other insects that have an exoskeleton)that thrive on mold as their primary food source. Besides mold, these little mites will also consume yeast. Since they also eat yeast, they may get into your pantry and attack products that are high in fat and protein. Mold mites are almost, but not quite, invisible to the human eye, they are that small. There are lots of different types of mites in the world, but most of them, like the more common dust mites, are much larger than mold mites.
Mold In Your Dishwasher
You place your dirty dishes in, you add soap, you turn it on, and an hour or so later your dishes come out clean. How in the world could you have mold in your dishwasher? Your dishwasher always cleans with soap and hot water every time a cycle is run, you wouldn’t think it was possible for mold to grow inside it. But mold can, and it will, and it does.
Mold In a Mattress
Mold can develop in any mattress, not just an organic mattress or one of the memory foam ones. Water Mold Fire Restoration knows that most of us buy a mattress, place on our beds, and forget about it until it’s time to go to bed, or buy a new one. But if you take the time to actually read that pesky label that manufacturers place on a mattress, you will see instructions on what you should do to take care of it.