Missing Mold Damage in Mt Airy Homes

9/25/2024 (Permalink)

SERVPRO of Mt Airy can inspect, assess, and remediate your property if you have a mold issue.

Discovering Mold in Your Mt Airy Home

You might have realized as a homeowner that even the slightest amount of persistent moisture and dampness can often launch some stubborn mold damage to deal with on organic materials. As frustrating as the sight of mold might be, even more alarming could be the truth that what you can see might not be the extent of the damage. One of the priorities of responding SERVPRO® professionals is to learn the full measure of the threat through a comprehensive assessment and inspection.

Is Mold Hiding Out of Sight? 

Mold damage in Mt Airy homes should be managed immediately. You might feel skilled enough to handle the surface mold you can see, but are you sure that’s the extent of the problem? Here are some areas that might also experience damage:

• Wall cavities contain moisture from high house humidity.
• Spaces between floors of the residence where leaks have occurred.  
• Crawl spaces that need to be appropriately encapsulated or ventilated.
• Attics that experience moisture absorption or have suffered a breach to allow water inside the structure.  

Finding the Mold You Can’t See 

Knowing the mold is there is one thing – finding and removing it is left to the professionals like our SERVPRO of Frederick County team. We have a range of methods to track moisture and damp pockets with thermal imagery and moisture sensors, but can also rely on trusted methods like:

• Using non-visual cues of growth 
• Pulling up carpeting to inspect for mildew and mold 
• Using exploratory holes to inspect for growth behind drywall 

SERVPRO is Here to Help  

Mold is not always as apparent and straightforward to remove as it might seem. It often takes a lot more than elbow grease on some drywall to solve the problem—and that is where we come in. SERVPRO Frederick County is a trusted choice for removing all the active mold colonies and organisms in your residence, wherever they may be. Call us today at (301) 691-4683.  

Mold Damage Repair in Frederick Calls for SERVPRO’s Help

8/27/2023 (Permalink)

Mold damage is hard to deal with on your own. Contact SERVPRO 24/7 for certified professionals and equipment to help you.

Trust Experts for Mold Damage Repair in Your Frederick Home

Outdoors, molds play a role in nature as they break down dead, organic matter like dead trees and fallen leaves. However, indoor mold growth is something to avoid. These microorganisms reproduce by broadcasting minute spores and circulate through indoor and outdoor air.

Mold can grow indoors when the spores land on wet or damp surfaces. Mold damage repair in Frederick homes involves controlling mold growth. SERVPRO® can help you to clean up the mold and repair the water problem.

Mold ruins the structures and contents it grows on. It causes more damage the longer it grows. When remediating mold, our SERVPRO team can construct containment that serves the following safety purposes:

• Preventing contaminants from getting into uncontaminated areas.
• Managing airflow from clean to contaminated surfaces. 
• Protecting building workers and occupants from fungi exposure

We can use different methods to keep contaminants from spreading. The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) defines the three degrees of isolation:

• Full-scale containment.
• Mini or local containment.
• Source containment.

For minimal contamination, our SERVPRO team can use source containment. We use mini or local containment for moderate contamination and full-scale containment for severe contamination.

Before performing remediation, we remove the non-contaminated and contaminated contents from affected areas. We can thoroughly clean contaminated contents using suitable methods to prevent mold spore reservoirs from returning to the remediated space. We consider the types of materials present in the affected area to remediate the mold effectively. For instance, if mold is present on porous materials like wallpaper, ceiling tiles, carpets, and drywall, our SERVPRO technicians can remove and discard them since we cannot clean them effectively.

If the surface of porous materials is contaminated with mold spores or dust but does not have mold growth, we can decontaminate it with HEPA vacuuming if dry. If such materials are damp, we can clean them professionally. If the materials have been wet for extended periods, we can discard them to keep mold from spreading further. 

SERVPRO of Frederick County is ready to handle the mold damage in your home. Contact us anytime at (301) 691-4683.