Interior Mold Inspection and Removal Services
Mold is pretty much everywhere and, whether you can identify it or not, chances are your home has mold lurking just under the surface. Mold is something that occurs naturally, however the species of mold that resides in your house or business can determine the extent of the problem. Mold spores move through the air, entering buildings through openings like doors, windows and HVAC systems. Spores can also be brought into a home on pets, clothing and shoes. It can be virtually impossible for you to eliminate mold from encountering your home. You need to take action when mold begins growing in your home. Having an expert to rely on that can tell you the type of mold present is priceless. Pair that with an expert that can develop the best way to treat it and perform the removal process, and you have Paul Davis. We provide professional home and commercial restoration services for all sorts of disasters, including mold.
Indoor Mold Removal 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 procedure. When it comes to treating mold safely, your prime option is to work with a company who specializes in all aspects of the process. We offer mold removal and remediation services as well basic mold inspections. Mold causes damage to your dwelling along with major health concerns for your family. Unlike most allergens, mold does adversely affect the health of any person whether they have allergies or not. Mold advances through any surface it resides in, this means the longer it goes without treatment in your home, the worse its effects are. The experts at Paul Davis can correctly identify the types of mold growing in your home and effectively deal with treating it.
Families of Mold
There are 3 basic types of mold:
- Allergenic: These produce and cause allergic reactions.
- Pathogenic: Molds that cause health issues in individuals who suffer from acute illnesses.
- Toxigenic: These molds can produce toxic substances.
With the range of molds that can reside in any given home, having an expert to diagnose and investigate the extent of their spread is crucial to removing it. An expert with Paul Davis can aid in helping make your home healthy and safe from the most insidious molds.
Some common molds are:
- Penicillium – A mold that most commonly grows on wallpaper, wallpaper glue, decaying textiles, carpets and fiberglass insulation. Penicillium will cause hay-fever type reactions and induces asthma attacks.
- Aspergillus – This is a warm climate mold that thrives both outdoors and indoors. Aspergillus can be discovered in areas that are excessively damp with extensive water damage, as well as organic matter that is breaking down. It can also found in dust and produces mycotoxins.
- Alternaria – This mold is commonly located in carpet, textiles, dust, window frames, showers and soil. This large spore mold takes traction in the respiratory tract, mouth and nose.
- Cladosporium – This is the most commonly identified outdoor fungi that enters homes. It grows in porous, overtly moist areas like wood and textiles. Both the indoor and outdoor strains trigger asthma attacks as well as induces hay-fever like reactions.
- Stachybotrys – This particularly horrible mold that produces airborne toxins at a high level, fortunately is a less common household mold. It needs excessive damp to thrive, and causes breathing issues, symptoms reminiscent of the flu, hearing and memory loss, and bleeding lungs.
- Acremonium – This toxic mold grown in areas of condensation like cooling coils, humidifiers, drain pans, and window sealants. It is a powdery mold that grows in an array of colors like grey, orange, pink and white.
- Aureobasidium – This variety of mold is most often found growing behind wallpaper and painted wood surfaces. It begins light brown or pink in color but deepens to dark brown-black the longer it’s around. This is a highly responsive allergic mold, responsible for skin rashes and eye infections.
- Chaetomium – This mold can be located in homes after flooding or leaking and in chronically damp conditions. It has a musty odor, cottony texture and changes colors from white to brown or grey over time. Chaetomium is known to produce mycotoxins that affect the immune system and cause nail and skin infections.
- Cladosporium – This unique mold grows in both warm and cold environments and spreads quickly on fabric, upholstery, under floorboards and in carpets. It reacts adversely with wet tissues like the eyes, nose, mouth and throat.
- Fusarium – Capable of thriving and migrating in cold weather, Fusarium is coral or pink in color and is most commonly located in soft goods. A reddish strain is found in organic products like house plants, and both strains can move quickly through a home. Symptoms from this mold begin as skin infections, sore throat and runny eyes then progresses to bone infections and brain abscesses.
- Trichoderma – This is a highly allergic mold with 5 subspecies. This rapid growth mold has a wool like texture that is mostly white and green. It does well in consistently damp and moist areas like HVAC systems, wood and textiles. Along with health symptoms associated with other mycotoxins, Trichoderma also destroys the surfaces it grows on, causing decay and structures to crumble.
- Ulocladium – Ulocladium is nearly always located in kitchens and bathrooms and is one of the black molds. It contributes to respiratory ailments and asthma.
Speak With Paul Davis for a Reliable Mold Inspection
If you suspect or know you have mold in your home call the team with Paul Davis. Our professional team will provide a detailed inspection as well as perform the remediation services necessary to remove insidious mold from your property. Paul Davis is available 24-hours a day, 7-days a week.