Name: Video: Combating Mold in Your Home
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So what do you do if you have mold? My first tip is do not put a fan on mold ever. When you put a fan on mold, you're blowing around the mold spores just like a dandelion in your lawn. You're spreading seeds everywhere and you actually make the problem worse.
So what can you do if the mold is on a wall in a small area? You can take plastic, just simple visqueen or plastic, and you can cover that mold area with plastic and tape and seal it off so that then you can figure out what your next steps will be. If the mold area is larger like an entire room One thing you can do is close down that room and don't go in there. We're really concerned about the health hazards with mold spores entering your body. At that point, you can call a mold professional and get them to check out the problem to see what's going on.
If the mold is in an attic space, don't run your HVAC unit just in case you just don't want to spread mold or have a lot of air movement. So in that case, you definitely want to get an industrial hygienist, a mold testing company, or a mediator to take care of the problem.

Video: Combating Mold in Your Home

Dave Keith, Owner of NBE Property Restoration, a Diamond Certified company, gives some helpful tips on if you have a mold problem in your home, it?s important to know the proper way to deal with it, as well as common mistakes to avoid.

Combating Mold in Your Home from Dave Keith of NBE Property Restoration.

with Dave Keith of NorthBay Environmental, Inc.

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So you've got mold on your wall, what should you do? What I recommend is to put plastic on it. You could take a plastic garbage bag or you could take just visqueen, a piece of plastic cut out the square, and then put duct tape around and seal all the edges. That's what you should do, cover it up so it doesn't spread. 

What shouldn't you do? Don't put a fan on mold. The problem with putting a fan on mold, you may have good intentions that you want to dry out, maybe the wall is wet or the floor is wet, you're gonna dry it out but you're actually causing a lot of harm because think of a mold spore as a dandelion in your lawn and you're blowing those spores all over your house, creating a much bigger problem potentially. So I never recommend putting a fan on mold, the best way to dry out anything that's wet that has mold is with a dehumidifier.

One of the most common things I'm asked about is bleach, should I put bleach on mold and the answer is you can and but I want you to be careful about bleach because the byproduct of bleach is actually can be more harmful than mold. So the proper way to put bleach on mold is to dilute it to a 10% bleach to water solution, spray the bleach on the mold and let it sit for at least 10 minutes, however, if you have mold on drywall, you put bleach on it you can wipe it off but that's like pulling weeds in your lawn, you've got the weed but you may not have gotten the roots and that is why many times the mold continues to grow back in the county that we live in humidity level humidity levels can be more than 60% which is great for mold, so you can pull those weeds you can get the surface of it but the roots are still there in the drywall and the mold can continue to grow even without a normal water source that would have been there but with just humidity in the air.

Another question I'm commonly asked is should I test for mold I want to know what kind of mold I have and the answer is maybe. I don't always recommend testing for mold because from a remediation standpoint I don't care what kind of mold it is, it could be stachybotrys it could be Penicillium but from a remedial standpoint treating it is exactly the same and so I don't always recommend testing ahead of time because you might just be wasting your money if you could see mold it's probably mold so you need to fix it there are a lot of test kits that are out there and you send it off to a lab and you spend money and get it back and say yep, it's mold I could save you a lot of money by just saying it's probably mold let's get it taken care of and figure out the right way to do it to learn more from local top rated companies visit our diamond certified expert reports at experts diamond certified org.

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