Indoor Mold Inspection and Removal Services
Mold is pretty much everywhere so, whether you can see it or not, chances are your house has mold lurking out of eyesight. Mold is a part of nature, although the strain of mold that is found in your home or property is the real problem. Mold spores migrate through the air and enter structures through any opening, such as windows, doors and HVAC systems. They can also enter a building on pets, clothing and shoes. It can be nearly impossible for you to stop mold infiltrating your home. You should take action as mold begins growing in your home. Having an expert to turn to who will tell you the strain of mold present is priceless. Add to that an expert that can orchestrate the best way for treatment and carry out the removal process, and you have Paul Davis. We provide professional home and commercial emergency restorative services for all types of disasters, including mold.Indoor Mold Removal and Abatement Services
When Paul Davis performs an investigation on your residential or commercial property for mold, you have a licensed professional who has a high level of experience in this field. The detection and identification of mold is step one in what can be a long procedure. When it comes to the treatment of mold safely, it is best working with a company which specializes in all aspects relating to the process. Paul Davis offers mold removal and remediation services partnered with basic mold testing. Mold will cause damage to your home and major health issues for your family. Mold, unlike most allergens, can negatively affect the health of any person regardless if they have allergies or not. Mold migrates through any surface it grows in, meaning the longer it remains without treatment in your home, the worse its effects are. The experts with Paul Davis can accurately identify the types of mold growing in your house and effectively deal with treating it.Kinds of Mold
There are 3 general types of mold:- Allergenic: These produce and cause allergic reactions.
- Pathogenic: Molds that cause health problems in individuals which suffer from acute illnesses.
- Toxigenic: These molds can produce toxic microbes.
- Penicillium - This mold most commonly grows on wallpaper, wallpaper glue, decaying textiles, carpets and fiberglass insulation. Penicillium causes hay-fever like reactions and induces asthma attacks.
- Aspergillus - This is a warm climate mold which grows indoors and outdoors. Aspergillus can be located in areas that are excessively damp with extensive water damage, as well as organic matter that is breaking down. Aspergillus can also found in dust and produces mycotoxins.
- Alternaria - Alternaria is commonly located in textiles, dust, carpet, showers, soil and window frames. This is a large spore mold that deposits in the respiratory tract, mouth and nose.
- Cladosporium - This is the highest commonly identified outdoor mold easily enters homes. It thrives in porous, overtly moist surfaces like textile and wood. Both the indoor and outdoor strains trigger asthma attacks along with inducing hay-fever like reactions.
- Stachybotrys - This particularly insidious mold that produces high levels of airborne toxins, luckily is a less common household mold. It requires excessive damp to thrive, and causes breathing problems, flu-like symptoms, loss of hearing and memory, and bleeding lungs.
- Acremonium - This toxic mold thrives in areas of moisture like cooling coils, humidifiers, drain pans, and window sealants. It's a powdery mold that grows in an array of colors like grey, orange, pink and white.
- Aureobasidium - This species of mold is most often found growing behind wallpaper and painted wood surfaces. It starts out pink or light brown in color but deepens to dark brown-black the longer it's around. This highly allergic responsive mold is responsible for causing eye infections and skin rashes.
- Chaetomium - This mold can be located in houses after flooding or leaking and in chronically moist conditions. It has a cottony texture, changes colors from white to brown or grey as it ages and has a musty odor. Chaetomium is also known to produce mycotoxins which affect the immune system, causing skin and nail infections.
- Cladosporium - Cladosporium grows in cold and warm environments and migrates rapidly on fabric, upholstery, under floorboards and in carpets. It has a strong reaction with wet tissues like the eyes, nose, mouth and throat.
- Fusarium - This mold is most commonly located in soft goods and grows and migrates in cold temperatures. A reddish strain is found in organic products like food and house plants, and both strains can move rapidly through a home. Symptoms begin as skin infections, sore throat and runny eyes then 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 green and white. It thrives in consistently damp and moist areas like HVAC systems, wood and fabric. Along with health symptoms associated with other mycotoxins, Trichoderma also destroys the surfaces it inhabits, causing decay and structures to crumble.
- Ulocladium - This mold is mostly located in bathrooms and kitchens and is one of the black molds. It contributes to asthma and respiratory illnesses.
