Indoor Mold Inspection and Removal Services
Mold can be found everywhere so, whether you can spot it or not, chances are your property has mold lurking just under the surface. Mold is a part of nature, although the species of mold that is found in your home or property is the real issue. Mold spores migrate through the air, entering buildings through openings like windows, doors and HVAC systems. They can also enter a building on pets, clothing and shoes. It is basically impossible for you to prevent mold entering your residence. It's only as mold is growing in your property that you should be worried. Having an expert to turn to who will tell you the type of mold present is worth the expense. Add to that an expert that can devise the optimal way for treatment then perform the remediation process, and you have Paul Davis. We provide professional commercial and residential emergency restorative services for all types of disasters, including mold.Indoor Mold Remediation and Abatement Services
When Paul Davis performs an investigation on your residential or commercial property for mold, you have a licensed professional that is experienced in this area. Detecting and identifying mold is the initial step in what can be an arduous procedure. When it comes to treating mold safely, it is best to work with a company that specializes in all aspects relating to the process. Paul Davis offers mold removal and remediation services in conjunction with basic mold testing. Mold causes damage to your house on top of major health concerns for your family. Mold, unlike most allergens, will negatively affect the health of an individual whether they have allergies or not. Mold spreads through the surfaces it's found in, meaning the longer it remains untreated in your residence, the worse its effects are. The professionals at Paul Davis can accurately identify the types of mold growing in your home and effectively handle treating it.Families of Mold
There are 3 basic species of mold:- Allergenic: Which cause and produce allergic reactions.
- Pathogenic: These molds cause health problems in individuals that suffer from acute illnesses.
- Toxigenic: These molds produce toxic substances.
- Penicillium - This mold most commonly thrives on wallpaper, wallpaper glue, decaying textiles, carpets and fiberglass insulation. Penicillium causes hay-fever type reactions and induces asthma attacks.
- Aspergillus - This is a warm environment mold which grows both indoors and outdoors. Aspergillus can be located in areas that are excessively damp with extensive water damage, as well as decomposing organic matter. Aspergillus can 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 takes traction in the respiratory tract, mouth and nose.
- Cladosporium - This is the most commonly identified outdoor fungus which enters homes. It thrives in damp, porous areas like wood and textiles. The indoor and outdoor kinds cause 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 thrive, and causes breathing problems, flu-like symptoms, 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. This is a powdery mold that thrives in an array of colors like grey, orange, pink and white.
- Aureobasidium - Aureobasidium is often discovered growing behind wallpaper and painted wood surfaces. It starts out light brown or pink in color but deepens to dark brown-black as it ages. This highly responsive allergic mold causes skin rashes and eye infections.
- Chaetomium - Chaetomium is found in residences after flooding or leaking and in chronically moist 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 which affect the immune system, causing skin and nail infections.
- Cladosporium - This unique mold thrives in both cold and warm environments and migrates rapidly on fabric, upholstery, under floorboards and in carpets. It has an adverse reaction with wet tissues in eyes, nose, mouth and throat.
- Fusarium - This mold is commonly located in a home's soft goods and grows and migrates in cold temperatures. A reddish variety is found in organic products like food and house plants, and both kinds can move rapidly through a home. Symptoms start out as skin infections, sore throat and runny eyes and progresses to bone infections and brain abscesses.
- Trichoderma - Trichoderma is a highly allergic mold with 5 subspecies. This rapid growth mold has 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 associated with other mycotoxins, this mold also destroys the surfaces it grows on, 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 ailments.
