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How to Identify Molds - 9 Simple Steps
When mold grows in your house, it can become a health hazard for you and your family members.
- Check for patches that appear fuzzy, or cotton-like. Many household mold looks like this. If mold-like conditions appear on walls or hard surface, place a flashlight against the surface. If filamentous (long visible chains, threads or filaments) structures appear in the shadow of the light, most likely mold is present.
- Identify mold by the discolorations. Mold comes in almost all colors of the rainbow, including brown, gray, black, green, yellow, white and orange.
- Use your nose to find mold. Household mold by its musty or earthy smell.
- Look for mold in places where you've had any water damage. Leaking roofs, leaky windows, plumbing leaks and flooding leave household areas ripe for mold growth. Check ceilings and carpets.
- Know that the humidifiers and vaporizers you use for your health are prime places for mold growth due to the high level of humidity. Poorly vented bathrooms may contain mold fed from the steam from showers. Plumbing leaks in interstitial walls can also be problematic.
- Understand that mold loves damp basements and garages. And if you store books, clothing, drywall, cardboard or wood in these locations (and who doesn't?), then mold has a ready food source to grow on.
- Inspect you air handling system for visual mold like conditions. Check the evaporator coil, blower assembly, drain pan, wetted insulation liner, etc… Look for primary or secondary drain pan leaks.
- Play detective and identify mold in these hiding places: under the kitchen sink, air ducts, entryways and refrigerator seals.
- The best way to identify mold with the Mold Screen Check (MSC), a product of the do-it-yourself IAQ Screen Check. The Mold Screen Check (MSC) is as easy to use as 1-2-3, is inexpensive and quantitative. (EDLab, an AIHA accredited laboratory analyzes all of the samples. For as little as $52.50 a complete mold report is available.
About Pure Air Control Services:
Founded in 1984 by Alan Wozniak, President/CEO in what began as a small mechanical contracting business has grown into an award winning, industry leading indoor environmental quality (IEQ) service company serving many fortune 500 corporations, school boards, county, city, state and federal governments and consumers across the US. The firm has serviced over 500 million square feet of indoor environments in over 10,000 facilities. Pure Air Control Services is under contract with the General Services Administration (GSA), Contract #GS-10F-0488R, linking them directly to federal governmental agencies as a provider for IAQ consulting, expert laboratory analysis, as well as HVAC system cleaning and mold remediation services. The firm is also a certified 8(a) MBE.
The firm has offices in Tampa, FL, Atlanta, GA, West Palm Beach, Fl., Houston, TX and Washington, DC, that services the entire country.
Pure Air Control Services provides the following indoor environmental services on a national basis:
· Building Sciences Evaluation
· Building Health Check
· Environmental Microbiology Laboratory (AIHA Accredited)
· Environmental Project Management
· IAQ-Screen Check Test Kits/EvaluAire and EvaluAire Pro
· Mold Remediation Services
· HVAC System Remediation
Clients of Pure Air Control Services include: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), General Services Administration (GSA), Johnson Controls, Allstate Insurance, Carrier Air Conditioning, Siemens’ Building Technologies (SBT), V.T. Griffin, Dobbins Air Force Base, Naval Air Warfare Center - Orlando, Naval Air Station - King's Bay, Georgia; The Haskell Company, Leon County Government, Tallahassee, Florida, Pinellas County Government, Clearwater, Florida; Collier County Government, Naples, Florida; Bayfront Medical Center, St. Pete, Florida; US Army - Ft. Bragg, Kentucky; Naval Station - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Montgomery County School District, Maryland; Citrus County School District, Florida; and many others.
For additional information, please contact:
Mr. Ed Ziegler, VP Business Development
Pure Air Control Services, Inc.
(800) 422-7873 x 802
http://www.imakenews.com/eletra/gow.cfm?z=pureaircontrols%2C161357%2Cbsqf8cb%2C31649%2Cb8RbBrG
www.edlab.org
www.buildinghealthcheck.com
http://www.indoorairtest.com/
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