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Mold Test Kit
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allergy, asthma, sinusitis suffering caused by indoor pollutants by
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Mold
and Sinusitis FAQ
Q.
For sinusitis suffers, probably due to mold, which state or which area of
the world would you recommend as a good place to live?
A.
Everywhere [desert, tropics, woods, mountains, even 6 miles up into
the
atmosphere etc.] has high levels of mold spores that can cause home
mold contamination problems
and personal health problems such as
sinusitis. You can live anywhere as long as you make sure you have no
Mold Inspector Mold Testing.
In addition to making sure that your home has no mold contamination, you
can help to prevent mold problems from arising in the future by
installing the best hepa filters and at least 400,000
µwatts of
ultraviolet killing strength UV lights into your hvac return air plenum.
Q.
We
bought our house 5 years ago, knowing nothing about mold at
the time. We have a Cape Cod style home, with attic
areas behind cubby hole doors in the bedrooms. It is
VERY humid in these areas. When we bought the house, we
noticed a small section on the underside of the roof in one of
the cubby holes that had spotty gray mildew, but it was small
and did not appear to be spreading. After having learned
a lot about mold in the past month, I took another look at
this "little area". Now it appears to have
spread to cover about 50% of the plywood on the underside of
the roof are on the North side of the house The south
side gets a lot of sun and the plywood there looks like new.
But the north side is very shady and that is where I see
all this mold. It is BLACK. Being that this moldy
mate-rial is plywood, is there any way to clean and stop the
mold from growing, or does all this plywood roof decking material
absolutely have to be replaced?
A.
Your first step is to collect a sample of the suspected
substance and send it to our lab for mold analysis [is it
mold? and what specific mold in identification?]. You should
also test the air of the attic using a mold culture plate.
Follow the mold testing suggestions provided at
Mold Testing.
After having collected a sample for mold laboratory
identification purposes, your first removal step would be to
kill visible mold with a strong fungicide. Visit
Mold Killer Fungicide.
Follow the mold removal steps explained at:
Mold Removal.
If you can NOT remove the mold from the plywood by the
aggressive use of such techniques as abrasive blasting, power
planer, power sander, etc., then you should replace the
plywood [and thus the roof]. Be sure that who ever does the
mold testing and the mold remediation wears proper protective
gear [explained in the Mold Killer section of this website.
Q.
What, if
any are acceptable levels of mold on asthmatics ?
A.
There is NO acceptable level of indoor mold infestation for
an asthmatic or other persons with other serious respiratory health
problems or depressed immune systems. The problem with living or
working in a mold infested place is that the cumulative effect of
breathing in airborne mold spores minute after minute results in a
large cumulative mold exposure dosage that is especially dangerous
to persons with asthma or other serious health problems. Your first
step is to mold test the air of where you live or work to determine
what molds and in what concentrations these molds are in, especially
in comparison to an outdoor mold control test. You should visit the
mold health sections of
Mold Types and
Mold Inspector as well as our mold test kit section of
Environmental and Mold Store.
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