Indoor Mold Inspection and Removal Services

Mold can be found everywhere and, whether you can see it or not, chances are your house has mold lurking just under the surface. Mold is a part of nature, but the type of mold that has spread in your home or business is the real issue. Mold spores travel through the air and enter buildings through any opening, such as doors, windows and HVAC systems. Spores can also enter a building on clothing, shoes, and pets. It can be nearly impossible for you to prevent mold from infiltrating your residence. You should be worried when mold is growing in your home. Having an expert to turn to that can advise on the kind of mold present is worth the expense. Add to that an expert that can orchestrate the best way to treat it and perform the remediation process, and you have Paul Davis. We provide professional commercial and residential emergency restorative services for all kinds of disasters, including mold.

Indoor Mold Remediation and Abatement Services

With a Paul Davis inspection on your commercial or residential property for mold, you have a licensed professional that is experienced in this field. The detection and identification of mold is the first step in what can be an arduous project. When it comes to treating mold safely, it is best to work with a company that specializes in all aspects of the process. We offer mold remediation and removal services in addition to basic mold testing. Mold can cause damage to your house as well as major health problems to your family. Mold, unlike most allergens, does negatively affect the health of any person whether they have allergies or not. Mold spreads through the environment it lives in, meaning that the longer it goes untreated in your residence, the worse its effects are. The experts at Paul Davis can accurately identify the strains of mold growing in your residence and effectively handle treating it.

Types of Mold

There are 3 basic types of mold:

  • Allergenic: Which produce and cause allergic reactions.
  • Pathogenic: Molds that cause health problems in people that suffer from acute illnesses.
  • Toxigenic: Any mold that produces toxic microorganisms.

With the variety of molds that can be found in homes, having an expert to investigate and diagnose the extent of their spread is key to eradicating it. An expert with Paul Davis can assist with getting your house healthy and free from the most damaging molds.

Some common molds are:

  • Penicillium – A mold that most commonly grows on wallpaper, wallpaper glue, decaying fabrics, carpets and fiberglass insulation. It will cause hay-fever like reactions and induces asthma attacks.
  • Aspergillus – This is a warm weather mold which thrives indoors and outdoors. Aspergillus can be found in areas of extreme dampness and extensive water damage, as well as decomposing organic matter. Aspergillus is also found in dust and produces mycotoxins.
  • Alternaria – This mold is commonly located in soil, showers, window frames, carpets and textiles. This is a large spore mold that deposits in the respiratory tract, mouth and nose.
  • Cladosporium – Cladosporium is the highest commonly identified outdoor fungus easily enters homes. It thrives in porous, overtly moist areas like wood and textiles. The indoor and outdoor strains cause asthma attacks along with inducing hay-fever like reactions.
  • Stachybotrys – Being the least common household mold is lucky, as it’s among the more insidious. It requires excessive damp to thrive, 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. It’s a powdery mold that thrives in an array of colors like pink, white, grey or orange.
  • Aureobasidium – This species of mold is most often discovered growing behind wallpaper and painted wood surfaces. It begins pink or light brown in color but darkens to dark brown-black as it ages. This highly responsive allergic mold causes eye infections and skin rashes.
  • Chaetomium – Chaetomium can be located in homes after flooding or leaking and in chronically moist conditions. It carries 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 nail and skin infections.
  • Cladosporium – Cladosporium thrives in warm and cold areas and migrates rapidly on fabric, upholstery, under floorboards and in carpets. It has an adverse reaction with wet tissues like the eyes, nose, mouth and throat.
  • Fusarium – Capable of thriving and spreading in colder temperatures, Fusarium is pink or coral in color and is most commonly located in soft goods. A reddish strain is found in organic products like food and house plants, and both kinds can move rapidly through a home. Symptoms begin as skin infections, sore throat and runny eyes and 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 and is mostly green and white. It grows in consistently damp and moist locations like HVAC systems, wood and fabric. Along with health symptoms the same as other mycotoxins, this mold also destroys the surfaces it grows on, 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 ailments.

Speak With Paul Davis for Reliable Mold Inspection

When you may suspect or know there is mold in your residence call the experts with Paul Davis. Our expert team will provide a detailed inspection as well as execute the remediation services necessary to eradicate damaging mold from your residence. Paul Davis is available 24-hours a day, 7-days a week.