Category Archives: contamination
Controlling the Mold After a Flood
When you inspect your drainage, make sure to include your rain gutters and downspouts. If there’s a problem, it will show up in standing puddles. Debris like leaves which blocks the flow should be removed. If you repair as needed … Continue reading
Caveat Emptor: Buying Your little Piece of the Mold
Thanks to boarded-up, unoccupied foreclosure properties, real estate has become a roulette wheel where the buyer better be aware of the mold situation. Because those closed up properties aren’t completely unoccupied==when the electricity moves out and the moisture and spores … Continue reading
Toxic Ansonia Apartments in Connecticut
Reports of toxic mold at the Ansonia Apartments in Connecticut: A Tenant to sends her sick children to stay with family in fear that they will get sick from mold that has spread throughout the apartment complex. The cost of … Continue reading
Removing Mold
A thorough cleaning with 1 cup of bleach solution in 1 gallon of water is what you can do to remove molds from most hard surfaces, but if absorbent and porous materials like carpet, drywall, and ceiling materials became moldy, … Continue reading
Mold Basics
Mold and Mildew both require water and a food source to grow. (Mold can be found behind the walls, in showers, and anywhere the environment will support it.) Both grow from spores that can cause allergic responses. This is why … Continue reading
Victim of Mold or Mold Clean-up?
Boulder campus’s Engineering Center may be toxic. Six workers got sick after developing respiratory problems after working in Boulder Campus Engineering center, and mold is suspected to be the culprit. There’s no water damage and no mold turned up in … Continue reading
Make-up vs Surgery . . . for your walls
Just painting over mold won’t solve the problem. It might look better until the mold bleeds through, but that is all. Repairs must include actual removal of the mold, which means not just clean-up, but also elimination of the source, … Continue reading
The Need for Speed
Water that sits in your home is liable to contribute to mold. That is why speed is of the essence when cleaning up a leak. Dry up the water, and you may well prevent the mold, or at least slow … Continue reading
Mold Contamination in Emo-Cort 2.5% Lotion
As consumers, we expect GlaxoSmithKline to be marketing mold along the lines of, oh, say, penicillin. We do not expect to see GlaxoSmithKline (or their ilk) in the FDA recalls list for selling Eczema lotion contaminated with mold. So if … Continue reading