Getting Rid Of Mold

Even if you manage to kill the mold in your house, your job is not over. When people discover mold in their homes, they usually want to know how to kill it. This is the wrong way to approach the problem because even though the mold is dead, it can still cause health problems.

The spores cannot cause yeast infections because they are dead and can no longer grow. However, your body still recognizes them as something to be fought against, so you will experience allergy symptoms or sometimes severe reactions. About one-third of the population has mold allergies, so consider this.

Most of the time, removing the mold from the property entirely is the only way to eliminate the allergy symptoms you or your loved ones may experience. This will probably mean opening up walls, removing drywall, or even lumbering from home and replacing them with new material.

You can sometimes wash mold off the surface of drywall slabs, but if the growth is thick and heavily covers the surface, it may be embedded, and removal will be necessary. Mold-killing chemicals cannot penetrate far enough into the drywall to kill the contamination, so they will only return no matter how much scrubbing you do.

You can save clothes that have become molded sometimes, but unfortunately, clothes that have been left molded for an extended period can be so stained that they can never be removed. Outside the natural environment, the job of mold is to help with the decomposition of organic materials. It tends to do this reasonably well, so you must worry about it in your house. Lumber is organic, of course, and certain kinds of mold will cause it to rot completely.

Regularly check your house for water damage. If there is water damage, you can be sure that mold will start to grow there eventually if it is not taken care of. Moist areas in the home are the most at risk for mold growth, and if you do not take care of them, you may have to do some heavy remodeling in the future to take care of the problem.

Indoor Air Quality plays a significant role in our lives. Temperature, humidity, water penetration, and food source promote the growth of molds/fungi. Moisture and poorly ventilated areas are the primary reason for their growth. Fungi, in general, also produce a wide range of volatile organic compounds (VOC) characterized by musty or moldy odors that people associate with fungal growth in a building. If mold can be seen or smelled, it is a problem.