Indoor Mold Detection and Inspection Services
Mold can be found everywhere and, whether you can see it or not, chances are your property has mold lurking just under the surface. Mold is a part of nature, but the strain of mold that resides in your home or property is the real problem. Mold spores travel through the air and enter buildings through openings like doors, windows and HVAC systems. Spores can also enter a location on clothing, shoes, and pets. It is practically impossible for you to prevent mold from infiltrating your house. You need to take action when mold begins growing in your home. Having an expert to rely on who will tell you the kind of mold present is invaluable. Add to that an expert that can devise the best way for treatment and execute the remediation process, and you have Paul Davis. We provide professional commercial and residential abatement services for a variety of disasters, including mold.
Services for Indoor Mold Removal and Abatement
When you have Paul Davis inspect your commercial or residential property for mold, you have a licensed professional that is experienced in this area. Detecting and identifying mold is the first step in what can be an arduous project. When it comes to treating mold safely, it is best working with a company who specializes in all aspects pertaining to the process. We provide mold removal and remediation services as well basic mold inspections. Mold can cause damage to your property as well as major health issues to your family. Mold, unlike most allergens, does adversely affect the health of any person whether they have allergies or not. Mold spreads through the environment it lives in, meaning the longer it remains without treatment in your house, the worse its effects are. The professionals at Paul Davis can correctly identify the strains of mold growing in your home and effectively handle treating it.
Properties of Mold
There are 3 basic types of mold:
- Allergenic: Which produce and cause allergic reactions.
- Pathogenic: These molds cause health problems in people who suffer with acute illnesses.
- Toxigenic: These molds produce toxic microbes.
With the range of molds that can reside in homes, having an expert to diagnose and investigate the extent of their spread is crucial to eradicating it. An expert with Paul Davis can aid with getting your house healthy and safe from the most dangerous molds.
Some common molds are:
- Penicillium – This mold most commonly grows on wallpaper, wallpaper glue, decaying textiles, carpets and fiberglass insulation. It will cause hay-fever like reactions and induces asthma attacks.
- Aspergillus – This is a warm climate mold which grows indoors and outdoors. Aspergillus can be discovered in areas that are excessively damp with extensive water damage, as well as decomposing organic matter. It can also found in dust and produces mycotoxins.
- Alternaria – Alternaria is commonly found in textiles, dust, carpet, showers, soil and window frames. This large spore mold deposits in the mouth, nose and respiratory tract.
- Cladosporium – Cladosporium is the highest commonly identified outdoor fungus easily enters homes. It thrives in overtly moist, porous surfaces like wood and textiles. The indoor and outdoor strains bring about asthma attacks and induces hay-fever like reactions.
- Stachybotrys – This particularly insidious mold that produces high levels of airborne toxins, fortunately is the least common household mold. Stachybotrys needs excessive damp to grow, and causes breathing problems, 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. This is a powdery mold that thrives in an array of colors like grey, orange, pink and white.
- Aureobasidium – This mold is most often discovered growing behind painted wood surfaces and wallpaper. It begins pink or light brown in color but 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 houses after a flood or leaking and in chronically damp conditions. It carries a dank odor, cottony texture and changes colors from white to brown or grey as it ages. Chaetomium is also known to produce mycotoxins which affect the immune system and cause skin and nail infections.
- Cladosporium – This unique mold thrives in cold and warm areas and migrates rapidly on upholstery, fabrics, carpets and under floorboards. It reacts adversely with wet tissues like the eyes, nose, mouth and throat.
- Fusarium – This mold is most commonly found in a home’s soft goods and grows and migrates in cold weather. A reddish variety 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 can progress to bone infections and brain abscesses.
- Trichoderma – This is a highly allergic mold with 5 subspecies. It’s a rapidly growing mold with a wool like texture and is mostly green and white. It thrives in consistently damp and moist areas 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 nearly always found in kitchens and bathrooms and is one of the black molds. It contributes to asthma and respiratory ailments.
Speak With Paul Davis for Reliable Mold Inspection
When you may suspect or know you have mold in your house call the experts with Paul Davis. Our dedicated team will provide a detailed inspection and execute the remediation services required to eradicate dangerous mold from your home. Paul Davis is available 24-hours a day, 7-days a week.