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How to Look for Mold Before Buying a Home
Mold cleaning, Mold remediation

How to Look for Mold Before Buying a Home

Looking for a new home is an exciting venture, especially if you are a first-time home buyer.  The feeling you get when you find the right home is amazing, but you must stop yourself from getting too excited until you give the home a thorough inspection.  One of the biggest issues you should check for before purchasing a new home is mold.  Mold is a very serious problem that is sometimes difficult to spot in a home, and sellers are not always upfront about disclosing potential mold issues.  If you buy a house with extensive mold growth, you will be responsible for mold remediation which can be quite expensive. Before you close on a new home, make sure you inspect the home for mold according to the following tips. The Dangers of Mold in a Home There are many reasons why you should ...
How to Remove Mold & Mildew Odors from Carpeting
Carpet Cleaning, Mold removal remediation

How to Remove Mold & Mildew Odors from Carpeting

When the carpeting in your residential or commercial property has suffered water damage, it can result in lingering odors. The smell can be an obvious nuisance, but it can also be a sign of a more serious problem. A Mold or Mildew Issue The presence of lingering odors from water damage can mean that there is mold or mildew growing in your home or business. The growth of such substances can ruin your carpeting and other materials in addition to causing health problems. Knowing this, you must address any mildew smells right away and have your carpeting checked for mold and mildew growth. Removing Mold and Mildew Odors Continue reading for tips on how to remove mildew odors from your carpeting. Dry the Wet Area Before you address the mildew smell, you first need to address any water and...
Mold Allergies: Symptoms, Prevention, and Treatment
Mold cleaning, Mold remediation services

Mold Allergies: Symptoms, Prevention, and Treatment

Mold spores run rampant throughout the natural environment. Decayed leaves, rotting tree stumps, and various other natural debris are consumed by mold spores in the great outdoors. The moment mold spores latch on to indoor surfaces, people with mold allergies begin to adversely react. What is a Mold Allergy? Mold spores are present everywhere, indoors and outdoors. When an individual who is sensitive to mold inhales airborne mold spores, her immune system may begin to battle the intrusion into her nasal passages. As a result, antibodies, like histamine, are readily produced. What are Mold Allergy Symptoms? The antibodies that flock to the irritated areas to fight the inhaled spores are responsible for allergy symptoms, like wheezing, coughing, watery, and itchy eyes, throat and skin ir...
How Homeowners Insurance Covers Mold
Mold cleaning, Mold damage restoration, Mold damage restoration remediation

How Homeowners Insurance Covers Mold

When you find mold growing in your home, it is a concerning issue for a variety of reasons. Exposure to mold can cause people to suffer from health problems, such as allergies and infections. Prolonged exposure always increases the risk of these health effects and can make them worse. If there’s mold growth in your residence, then this means there may be a water problem that caused the mold to develop. The mold growth itself also damages your property. What Causes Mold Growth? Mold spores are naturally present in the air, but with moisture and a food source, these spores will be triggered into causing mold growth in your home. That said, mold is commonly a result of water damage, because water damage provides the moisture (water) and food (organic materials often found in common building...
How to Remove Mold from Carpet
Mold remediation, Mold removal remediation

How to Remove Mold from Carpet

When mold has affected your property, it’s not only dangerous to your building structure, it can pose a severe risk to your health. Depending on the location and how far it has spread, the cleanup job can be difficult as it may have spread to affect other areas without the property owner even noticing. But when it has contaminated a carpet, mold should be easy to spot because it is in plain view. When finding it, it is very important to be cautious because of the spores it releases, causing severe allergies and respiratory problems. This is why it must be removed right away in order to protect you and your family or staff as well as prevent the rest of your carpet from becoming affected. When it comes to mold remediation, you can either choose to hire a professional and save time, or do...
How to Prevent and Clean Mold on Your Home’s Siding
Mold cleaning

How to Prevent and Clean Mold on Your Home’s Siding

You know to keep an eye on the humidity levels in your home to prevent mold growth, but did you know the siding on your exterior can be a breeding ground too? Mold on siding is not only ugly, but it can seep through into the interior of your home, especially if there is no moisture barrier, or if the barrier has become damaged over time. Follow these suggestions to prevent and remove mold from siding before it can cause long term damage to your property and health. Prevent Mold Growth The usual advice for keeping an area mold free is to keep it dry, but that’s hard to do with siding unless you plan to put a tent over your home. It’s possible to limit the amount of water that hits your siding by directing sprinklers away. Rainwater usually doesn’t get under siding panels, but a poorly dir...
How to Identify, Remove, and Prevent Mold In Carpet
Mold cleaning, Mold remediation

How to Identify, Remove, and Prevent Mold In Carpet

As many of us are already aware, mold is a fungus that grows naturally in the environment and feeds off of organic substances such as trees, moss, and decomposing organisms. Unfortunately, your building materials also serve as a perfect host to give this unwelcome guest a home. Among these include wood, drywall, cement, particleboard, and other porous surfaces. While mold can be removed from some areas more easily than others, the problem can become a hassle, making it difficult to be removed in a cost-effective manner. One of these areas includes your carpet. Why is Mold Growing on My Carpet? Mold has the ability to grow on any surface within your property, as long as there is enough moisture present. In addition, other nutrients, optimal temperature, and light can promote its devel...
What You Should Know about Mold and Stopping Mold Growth
Mold mildew remediation

What You Should Know about Mold and Stopping Mold Growth

During the spring and summer months, your home is vulnerable to an invasion by a pretty common type of pest that can cause property damage and negative health effects such as allergies and infection.  We are not referring to insects and animals (though pests of this nature can cause these problems and much more), we are talking about another common home invader; mold.  Mold is a fungus that can grow anywhere in your home under the right conditions and it damages the surfaces it grows on while greatly increasing the risk of certain health effects caused by mold exposure.  Moisture is one of the main resources needed for mold to grow which is why mold growth is more likely during the more humid conditions of the spring and summer. Mold in your home can be a serious issue because of th...
Benefits Of Hiring Professional Mold Removal Companies
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Benefits Of Hiring Professional Mold Removal Companies

There’s nothing quite as distressing as discovering a patch of mold in the house when you least expect it. Whether you are expecting guests over the weekend or you are worried about the health risks, tackling mold should be on top of your house cleaning to-do list. A lot of people choose to get rid of mold on their own, using commercially manufactured products and tools found in the supermarket. That’s a great idea if you are short on money or you have experience with mold removal, but for the most part this is one of those tasks that should ideally be left to the cleaning agencies. If you find yourself confused between attempting to remove mold yourself and hiring professional mold removal cleaning contractors, there are a number of things to take into consideration. In this articl...
Preventing mold in your home
Mold cleaning

Preventing mold in your home

Whilst many people want to know how to effectively get rid of mold in the home, the main thing that you should be worrying about is how to prevent it getting there in the first place. Mold is pretty bad for your home, and if it does get in to the materials in your home, then you will find that it can spread rapidly, and be rather difficult to get rid of. The initial problem will also come in that the mold can spread fairly unnoticed in the initial stages, and by the time it is bad enough for you to have noticed, then you will be at a point where it can be doing some serious damage, and even becoming a health hazard. The mold spores spread and move in the air, and if inhaled, the bacteria in the mold can be dangerous. This is especially the case in people with respiratory illness, and child...