When is Mold Damage Remediation Necessary for my Jamestown Home?

9/28/2021 (Permalink)

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Jamestown Residents Should Enlist Mold Damage Remediation Professionals like SERVPRO Immediately After Discovering Microbial Growth

One of the core questions facing homeowners is what is mold and how damaging can it be for my home? The simple answer is that mold is a microorganism. Like any organism, it requires water, food, and temperature to grow and reproduce. Mold also digests its food supply to provide the energy it needs to grow and multiply. In a home environment, that food supply is often some or all of the building's assembly. Prime areas for fungi are porous organic materials such as drywall, but it can also affect and digest textiles like carpeting or even woods which we see in cases of dry rot. Noticing the presence of mold in your home is enough to justify professional:

• Mold remediation services
• Mold Removal 
• Black mold assessment

Before performing mold damage remediation in your Jamestown home, technicians must first establish the source, and extent, of mold growth. Sometimes the surface appearance of mold can be a much more extensive mold network that runs through the cavities of the home. For this reason, it is not unusual for mold assessments to involve the temporary removal of parts of the house. These actions typically allow remediators to check floor cavities or other recesses in the home that may harbor mold. Dealing with these areas of the property is essential to ensuring that mold does not return once the remediation process is complete. 

• Establishing temperature controls in the property can be necessary to slow down mold's growth cycle and allow technicians to remove it efficiently. 
• Disposal of mold-infested materials must be treated as a biohazard and contained within double-sealed polyethylene bags. 
• Antimicrobial chemicals, usually dispersed through hand-sprays, can further help slow the growth of mold while remediation is underway. 

Using professional remediators can protect the structure and safety of your home. Contact SERVPRO of Jamestown / Olean for mold damage remediation at (716) 338-4901.