When you enter your doctor’s office with complaints of respiratory ailments, your physician is presented with symptoms and not your environment. Mold medical diagnoses are ambiguous at times due to a lack of direct correlation between actual mold and the illnesses that occur beside mold… Read More »Missing Mold in Medical Diagnoses
When people suffer a loss in the home caused by an accident or natural disaster, they rely on their insurance company and restoration services to get their lives back to normal. They often make decisions based upon the direction of their insurance carrier, and they… Read More »Always Choose Your Restoration Service
As the New Year approaches, mold is not likely to be a huge consideration on your list of possible resolutions. However, it should be prioritized in 2020 because mold growth can damage the home and cause serious health consequences. Go ahead and keep your diet… Read More »5 New Year’s Resolutions for Mold Prevention
If you get home from vacation and see that you have water damage, you should also know there is a risk for mold growth. If not taken care of soon enough, mold will colonize and result in a growth that could be a health hazard.… Read More »Where is Mold Going to Grow After a Flood?
Our five senses are very useful for protection, and our ability to smell often alerts us to things we cannot see or feel. Smoke is an obvious example, but the nose is also useful in detecting mold. What does mold smell like? Well, it’s important… Read More »What Does Mold Smell Like?
A common place for mold to grow in a home or business is along the windows. This is because there is often moisture and lack of circulation around these areas. Moisture occurs because of condensation and leaky windows. If left undisturbed and at comfortable room… Read More »Replace Windows to Prevent Mold
When a person engages in mold remediation, or clean-up, they disturb active mold spores that can cause respiratory distress. In order to avoid being exposed to these tiny spores, a person must wear personal protective equipment (PPE). Here are a few examples from the Environmental… Read More »PPE: Personal Protective Equipment
You see a little black discoloration on the upper corner of your basement wall, or maybe you find it under your sink. It’s mold, but you aren’t alarmed. You think it’s no big deal, and you clean it with a regular detergent. A few weeks… Read More »5 Things You Should Know About Mold
The health hazards of mold are often downplayed because they don’t always harm humans. Typically, a person has to be sensitive to the mold in order to suffer health consequences, but that sensitivity is not rare. One place where the health hazards of mold have… Read More »Children’s Hospital Shuts Down AGAIN for Mold
You may be thinking about taking care of your mold problem yourself, and in some cases, this is okay. However, if you have a commercial mold problem, you should consider professional mold removal services. The cost of professional mold removal is much less than the… Read More »The Cost of Commercial Mold
Mold spores are everywhere, and they are brought into the home by clothing, shoes, and gusts of air that carry them inside. There are always some mold spores in any home. The problem arises when that mold is allowed to make a home and procreate.… Read More »Inactive Mold: A Hidden Danger
If you detect mold in your home, you may be concerned about the health of your family. You want to clean it up correctly, so nobody gets sick, so you hire a mold removal specialist. The problem is that the professional may be using scare… Read More »Mold Removal Specialist Scare Tactics: Trumping Sales over Ethics
The bathroom in your commercial building can be a safety issue and a liability if it is not maintained properly. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has created plenty of rules about bathroom accessibility for employees (including Americans with Disabilities Act ADA requirements). However, there… Read More »Commercial Bathroom Mold
When considering the different types of insulation, people are often drawn toward fiberglass insulation because it is common and effective. But fiberglass has a lot of disadvantages. For one, it requires a vapor barrier to block out moisture, and it does not create a good… Read More »Advantages of Spray Foam Insulation
The rooms in a home or business that have plumbing fixtures (sinks and showers) are often susceptible to mold growth. In the bathroom, this is easy to understand. The steam from baths and showers creates a moisture-rich environment that mold loves. However, the kitchen is… Read More »Kitchen Range Hoods Prevent and Cause Mold
When mold toxicity is mentioned, most people think of black mold. While black mold is one of the most harmful types of toxic mold to humans, it is not the only mold categorized as toxic. There are actually five types of toxic mold, and they… Read More »The Five Types of Toxic Mold
Ozone is three oxygen atoms (O3) in the form of a gas with one unstable oxygen atom that can attach to other elements and alter them. This gas is in the Earth’s ozone layer, and it traps heat to keep the Earth warm. An… Read More »Consider an Ozone Generator for Commercial Mold Elimination
What is a Crawl Space? If your home doesn’t have a basement and isn’t atop a slab, it most likely has a crawl space. This area is typically over a foot tall and extends to the foundation. Like the name suggests, it is made that… Read More »How to Care for Crawl Spaces in the Winter
Periodically in the news, you will find stories of very large lawsuits granted to claimants who have suffered from mold toxicity in a commercial building due to employee claims. This is one harmful consequence of mold growth for commercial building owners, but there are… Read More »When an Employee Claims Toxic Mold in Your Building
September is Mold Awareness Month As we begin September, Mold Awareness Month, we want to take a moment and review the basics about mold! Mold is a black, green, purple, white, or orange fungus that forms due to the presence of moisture. It can be… Read More »September: Mold Awareness Month