What is mold exactly? Is mold a plant or an animal? Believe it or not mold is neither plant nor animal but it actually is a fungus. Mold can be found on old crusty food, on walls and ceilings of your home. Mold can be found anywhere there is moisture. Mold can be made into Penicillin which has saved many lives. It is amazing how mold can be harmful and yet help save lives. Mildew is also another name for mold.
Mold is a living organism and has a very important role in our environment.
First of all, mold grows in areas that tend to have a great deal of moisture, darkness, and heat. Most areas you may find mold are bathrooms, pool areas and even in kitchen cabinets, floor tiles and even books. Mold can pretty much grow anywhere as long as its conditions are right. Mold spreads pretty fast and can take over a home if you don’t have the proper mold remover to fight against the spread of mold.
Mold spreads by reproducing or regenerating the cells which are called spores. These spores once airborne can latch on to clothes, skin, pets and even air condition filters. There is no way to keep mold spores from entering your home. The best way is to buy certain mildew or mold removal products. You can fight off the spread of mold and keep it at bay.
Mold can be very harmful to your health. Mold is very harmful to your lungs. Sometimes you don’t even realize there is mold in your house or work place. Mold is also very harmful to people with allergies and may trigger an allergy attack. Most of the time you do not realize that mold is making you sick until it is too late. Some of the symptoms are an excess of coughing and chest pains from coughing.
Some other symptoms are shortness of breath or even a scratchy throat.The only way to find out if you have a mold problem is to have your home or place of work inspected. It may be a little pricey but a mold technician can come out to your home and take some samples.
The technician will take some samples from outside and inside the home. This will determine if the mold spores in your home are growing more rapid than outside. You have a problem if the mold spores are growing more in the home rather than outside.
You can fight the outbreak of mold spores with special mold removal products.
There are also mold cleansers that block the mold spores to prevent the mold spores from coming back. One of the main ingredients in these mold spray is bleach. When buying a mold remover product check and see if it is odorless.
The odorless ones will not make your eyes tear when using them. Spray the infected areas and start scrubbing. You should repeat this process in one week’s time for a month and you will see a difference.
Mold is a very important part of our environment but can be a problem to humans as well. Mold can never be destroyed but it can be controlled. You can fight mold spores to keep the mold from spreading by using the correct mold removal products. It is so ironic that mold can help save human life and also help take it as well.
Markus Skupeika
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Why is there white mold in our attic? Is it harmful?
There is mold in our attic and it is wintertime; it’s all over the place. It’s white and fuzzy. When I last went up there it was relatively more humid than the rest of the house and smelled rather stuffy, especially compared to how I remember it a few months ago. We have some vents in the attic. We recently had a fire – this is our first winter since the fire. It was only a smoke fire; I don’t think the company replaced the insulation up there, but I don’t know if they were supposed to. We have house humidity at 40%.
That is caused by the attic not being properly vented and moisture builds up and creates mold. You need air movement with A)rafter vents b) an attic fan or c) gable vents or a combination of several of these.
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the attic needs ventilation the cold roof decking is causing moister ton condense out of the air.always treat the mold as if it’s dangerous no-one can tell just by looking if mold is dangerous. wear a mask clean the mold whit bleach solution then add ventilation or call in a pro.
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Amada – please don’t go up into your attic armed with bleach – you will not fix the problem. Just Google search for mold + bleach and have a read – it does not kill the mold. Your aim should be to kill it anyway it should be to remove it from your home and sort out your moisture problem in your attic. It’s a lot of work, but it needs to be sanded off the studs and beams in order to remove it. It needs to be done under negative pressure (i.e. less pressure than the rest of the home so air flows into the attic and not from the attic into the rest of your home) and the people doing the work need to be wearing respirators (not N95 dust masks from home depot). I would suggest getting it done right by a professional company. I would even talk to your insurance company and tell them you think it was related to the fire you had while back and see if they will cover it.
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