If you have mold in your home, you may think the solution is mold removal services. However, the real solution is mold remediation services, because simply removing the mold is not enough, and will lead to mold re-growing. While it is unfortunate, mold can never be completely removed from a home. Mold can be dealt with, but simply removing it without extra steps will mean the mold will remain a problem. That is where mold remediation comes in. Here are a few extra steps mold remediation takes that makes it more effective than mold removal.
- Remove the Cause: Before you can start attacking the problem, you must first find the cause. Usually a problem with water or excess moisture will cause it, so stopping that issue will hopefully inhibit future spread.
- Remove: With this step alone the mold problem will not be fixed, but mold will need to be removed. This means all of the mold will need to be cleaned, and materials that are heavily affected by mold may need to be removed and later replaced, such as flooring or walls.
- Clean: Creating clean surfaces and using chemicals that inhibit mold growth will help prevent more mold from growing.
- Dry: All of the affected areas will need to be completely dry before everything is rebuilt. Letting moisture remain would likely lead to the mold coming back.
While calling it “mold removal” is a bit of a misnomer, because most companies will be doing remediation when they say removal, it is important to know that simply scraping off the mold and throwing it out will not solve the mold issue.
