If you have mold in your home, the jargon around mold removal and mold remediation can be confusing. How do you just get rid of the mold you have now and keep it gone? Luckily, mold removal is just a piece of a longer, more in-depth process: mold remediation.
What Is Mold Remediation?
The mold remediation process follows these steps:
- First, the technician assesses your home using special tools, like a moisture meter. Since mold grows quickly in moisture, tools like these can help the technician can find the complete extent of the mold problem, even if mold is growing in hard to reach areas of your home.
- If mold is present, the technician will first carefully contain the mold, making sure that it can’t spread to other areas of your home during the removal process.
- Then, parts of your home affected by mold will be cleaned or rebuilt as needed.
- Finally, and crucially, the mold remediation technician will help you diagnose the cause of the mold and fix it. This will ensure the mold won’t return to the newly treated area of your home.
Mold remediation helps you through the entire process of finding, treating, and fixing the cause of the mold.
When Should I Call a Professional?
Once you know there’s mold in your home, it’s time to call the professionals. Mold can adversely affect you and your family’s health, causing allergic reactions and asthma attacks. Removing mold completely the first time is therefore important to limit mold’s effects on your health.
Mold removal is an involved process, and professionals have the tools and training to completely remove mold. In particular, mold remediation involves careful containment of the mold so it doesn’t spread during removal. This can be hard for homeowners to do on their own, which means you’ll need another treatment when the mold grows back.
Green Restoration Can Help
At Green Restoration, we are mold remediation experts and specialize in safe, environmentally friendly solutions to get your home or business mold free. Contact us today and let us help take care of your mold problem for good.