Indoor Mold Detection and Inspection Services
Whether you can spot it or not, chances are there is mold on your property. Mold is a part of nature, however the strain of mold that resides in your home or property is the real issue. Mold spores can travel through the air and enter buildings through openings like doors, windows and HVAC systems. Spores can also be brought into a location on clothing, shoes, and pets. It is basically impossible for you to stop mold encountering your residence. It's only as mold is growing in your property that you need to be concerned. Having an expert to rely on that can tell you the type of mold present is invaluable. Add to that an expert who will develop the best way for treatment then execute the remediation process, and you have Paul Davis. We provide professional commercial and residential restoration services for all kinds of disasters, including mold.Indoor Mold Remediation and Abatement Services
With a Paul Davis inspection on your residential or commercial property for mold, you have a licensed professional that is experienced in this area. The detection and identification of mold is the initial step in what can be a long process. When it comes to the treatment of mold safely, it is best to work with a company which specializes in all aspects relating to the process. We provide mold remediation and removal services as well basic mold inspections. Mold will cause damage to your house as well as major health issues to your family. Mold, unlike most allergens, will adversely affect the health of any person whether they have allergies or not. Mold migrates through any surface it's found in, meaning that the longer it goes untreated in your residence, the worse its effects are. The professionals at Paul Davis can correctly identify the strains of mold growing in your residence and effectively manage treating it.Kinds of Mold
There are 3 basic species of mold:- Allergenic: These produce and cause allergic reactions.
- Pathogenic: Molds that cause health issues in people which suffer from acute illnesses.
- Toxigenic: These molds can produce toxic substances.
- Penicillium - A mold that most commonly feeds on wallpaper, wallpaper glue, decaying textiles, carpets and fiberglass insulation. It will cause hay-fever type reactions and induces asthma attacks.
- Aspergillus - This is a warm weather mold that thrives both outdoors and indoors. It can be discovered in areas of extreme dampness and extensive water damage, as well as organic matter that is breaking down. It is also found inside of dust and produces mycotoxins.
- Alternaria - This mold is often located in carpet, textiles, dust, window frames, showers and soil. This is a large spore mold that deposits in soft tissue, like the nose, mouth and respiratory tract.
- Cladosporium - This is the most commonly identified outdoor fungus that enters homes. It spreads in overtly moist, porous locations like wood and textiles. Both the indoor and outdoor strains bring about asthma attacks along with inducing hay-fever like reactions.
- Stachybotrys - Being a less common household mold is good, as it's among the more horrible. Stachybotrys needs excessive moisture to thrive, and causes breathing issues, symptoms reminiscent of the flu, hearing and memory loss, and bleeding lungs.
- Acremonium - This toxic mold thrives in areas of condensation like cooling coils, humidifiers, drain pans, and window sealants. It's a powdery mold that thrives in a variety of colors like pink, white, grey or orange.
- Aureobasidium - This variety of mold is most often discovered growing behind painted wood surfaces and wallpaper. It begins light brown or pink in color then darkens to dark brown-black the longer it's around. This highly responsive allergic mold causes skin rashes and eye infections.
- Chaetomium - This mold can be located in houses after flooding or leaking and in chronically wet conditions. It has a dank odor, cotton like texture and changes colors from white to grey or brown over time. Chaetomium is known to produce mycotoxins that affect the immune system, causing skin and nail infections.
- Cladosporium - This unique mold thrives in both cold and warm areas and moves rapidly on fabric, upholstery, under floorboards and in carpets. It has a strong reaction with wet tissues in eyes, nose, mouth and throat.
- Fusarium - Capable of thriving and migrating in colder weather, Fusarium is pink or coral colored and is most commonly located in a home's soft goods. A reddish variety is found in organic products like food and house plants, and both strains can move rapidly through a home. Symptoms from this mold start out as a sore throat, runny eyes and skin infections and progresses to bone infections and brain abscesses.
- Trichoderma - Trichoderma is a highly allergic mold with 5 subspecies. It's a rapidly growing mold with a wool like texture that is mostly white and green. It grows in moist and consistently damp locations like HVAC systems, wood and fabric. Along with health symptoms associated with other mycotoxins, this mold also destroys the surfaces it inhabits, causing decay and structures to crumble.
- Ulocladium - This mold is mostly located in kitchens and bathrooms and is one of the black molds. It contributes to respiratory illnesses and asthma.
