Indoor Mold Inspection and Removal Services
For the most part, mold is everywhere so, whether you can see it or not, chances are your home has mold lurking out of eyesight. Mold is a part of nature, but the type of mold that grows in your home or property can determine the extent of the issue. Mold spores can travel through the air, entering buildings through openings like doors, windows and HVAC systems. Spores can also be brought into a residence on shoes, clothing and animals. It is basically impossible for you to prevent mold infiltrating your house. You need to take action as mold begins growing in your home. Having an expert to consult with that can advise on the kind of mold present is priceless. Add to that an expert that can devise the optimal way for treatment and execute the remediation process, and you have Paul Davis. We provide professional commercial and residential restoration services for all types of disasters, including mold.Indoor Mold Remediation and Abatement Services
When Paul Davis performs an inspection on your residential or commercial property for mold, you have a licensed professional that is experienced in this field. Detecting and identifying mold is step one in what can be an arduous project. When it comes to treating mold safely, it is best working with a company which specializes in all aspects of the process. We offer mold removal and remediation services as well basic mold testing. Mold will cause damage to your home and major health issues to your family. Mold, unlike most allergens, will adversely affect the health of an individual whether they have allergies or not. Mold migrates through the environment it's found in, meaning the longer it goes without treatment in your house, the worse its effects are. Paul Davis can correctly identify the kinds of mold growing in your residence and effectively manage treating it.Properties of Mold
There are 3 basic strains of mold:- Allergenic: Which produce and cause allergic reactions.
- Pathogenic: These molds cause health issues in individuals which suffer from acute illnesses.
- Toxigenic: These molds can produce toxic substances.
- Penicillium - A mold that most commonly feeds on wallpaper, wallpaper glue, decaying fabrics, carpets and fiberglass insulation. Penicillium causes hay-fever like reactions and induces asthma attacks.
- Aspergillus - This is a warm weather mold which thrives both indoors and outdoors. It can be found in areas that are excessively damp with extensive water damage, as well as decomposing organic matter. It can also found inside of dust and produces mycotoxins.
- Alternaria - Alternaria is often located in textiles, dust, carpet, showers, soil and window frames. This large spore mold takes traction in the respiratory tract, mouth and nose.
- Cladosporium - This is the most commonly identified outdoor fungi which enters homes. It grows in porous, overtly moist areas like wood and textiles. The indoor and outdoor kinds bring about asthma attacks along with inducing hay-fever like reactions.
- Stachybotrys - This particularly insidious mold that produces airborne toxins at a high level, luckily is a less common household mold. It needs excessive damp to grow, and causes breathing issues, flu-like symptoms, loss of hearing and memory, and bleeding lungs.
- Acremonium - This toxic mold thrives in areas of moisture like humidifiers, drain pans, window sealants and cooling coils. This is a powdery mold that thrives in an array of colors like grey, orange, pink and white.
- Aureobasidium - Aureobasidium is most often discovered growing behind wallpaper and painted wood surfaces. It starts out pink or light brown in color then darkens to dark brown-black as it ages. This highly allergic responsive mold induces eye infections and skin rashes.
- Chaetomium - Chaetomium can be located in residences after a flood or leaking and in chronically moist conditions. It has a cotton like texture, changes colors from white to brown or grey over time and carries a musty odor. Chaetomium is also known to produce mycotoxins which affect the immune system and cause nail and skin infections.
- Cladosporium - This unique mold thrives in both warm and cold areas and moves quickly on fabric, upholstery, under floorboards and in carpets. It reacts adversely with wet tissues in eyes, nose, mouth and throat.
- Fusarium - Capable of thriving and spreading in cold weather, this mold is coral or pink colored and is most commonly located in a home's soft goods. A reddish variety is found in organic products like house plants, and both strains can move quickly through a home. Symptoms from this mold begin as a sore throat, runny eyes and skin infections then can progress to brain abscesses and bone infections.
- Trichoderma - This is a highly allergic mold with 5 subspecies. It's a rapidly growing mold with a wool like texture and is mostly white and green. It does well in consistently damp and moist locations like HVAC systems, textiles and wood. Along with health symptoms the same as other mycotoxins, Trichoderma also destroys the surfaces it inhabits, causing decay and structures to crumble.
- Ulocladium - Ulocladium is mostly located in kitchens and bathrooms. It is one of the black molds and contributes to asthma and respiratory illnesses.
