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Testing for Mold
Contamination
Mold Spore Testing
It would be great if finding mold was as easy as just stumbling upon the spores as you clean your house. In that ideal world, mold infestations would be cleaned up within days and repairs to leaky pipes and other sources of moisture would be done immediately. Unfortunately, in the real world,
mold is generally found in dark, deep, wet corners of your home or building that are not often explored. Often it grows in places that you can't even see such as behind wall paper and drywall or paneling.
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What's the big deal about MOLD ? |
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Most
Americans spend 90% of their time indoors, a
fact which drastically increases the importance
of indoor environment and air quality.
Today's home and business owners are becoming
more aware that unseen microorganisms such as
mold and mildew can significantly affect health
and quality of life.
Mold is a type of fungus that
grows on plants and fibers and is frequently
associated with damp, musty places such as
basements, bathrooms and attics. Mold travels
through the air as tiny spores that make their
way into the wet ad damp regions of a house or
building where they breed and quickly multiply.
When mold is found, it is best to get it stopped
immediately before it gets a chance to quickly
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We all realize that mold is unsightly in your home or office, but far more important than it's appearance is that mold can be a serious hazard to one's health, especially to those that suffer from allergies and asthma. Read more about mold....
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Water ----
a Paradox
Water sustains all life on earth --- the fact is that
life, be it plant, animal or human, can not live without it.
Water is also nature's universal solvent. But water
causes more building material failures than any other agent.
Water is often the cause of building materials failure
whether it is a result from excessive metal corrosion
or the spalling or displacement of masonry or concrete
elements. The reality is that all houses and buildings
are at the mercy of the environment and the destructive
force of water.
Water can take on various states of matter such as
steam, humidity or evaporation (vapor), liquid and solid
(ice). These differing states of water have differing
effects on building materials and the transition from one
state to another (liquid to vapor or vice versa) is
often the cause of the degradation.
So why is water, the sustainer of all life, so
destructive? On the atomic level, water is made
up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom (H20).
The molecule itself is neutral, meaning it has no charge.
However, a deeper look at the molecular structure reveals
that the two smaller hydrogen atoms bond to one side of the
larger oxygen atom, creating a polarity effect, which allows
water to dissolve nearly anything.
When ingested by the human body, water dissolves and
flushes out toxins in our bodies. However, it is this same
property - the ability to dissolve almost anything -- that
degrades building materials.
Water and moisture are food for mold along with wood
decay and degradation of other organic materials.
Water -- a huge paradox, a sustainer of life and the
start of building material degradation.
That's the
paradox of water.......
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