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Shut Down Mold Growth In Your Maricopa Home
12/18/2018 (Permalink)
Black mold like this needs to be treated immediately. Call SERVPRO today to rid your home of mold.
Maricopa's Mold Damage Technicians Talk About Removal Methods
A small water leak that you do not notice right away inside your Maricopa home can create an environment where fungi can form. Microbes can be found naturally both indoors and outdoors; therefore once moisture affects organic materials inside your house, these microbes can turn into larger structures that can cause extensive mold damage. It is unknown how many different species of fungi exist, but it is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of various types. A fungus grows best in damp, warm and humid environments meaning that dark, confined places inside your home make good places for mold damage to occur once moisture is added to the scenario.
All kinds of fungal contamination can cause health effects, so it is a wise idea to call in a professional company like SERVPRO. It is important to know that having black mold damage in Maricopa is no different than suffering problems from any other type of fungi. Fungal contamination issues can be treated, and the chances of microbial growth in the future can be reduced, but we cannot ever promise total elimination. Since spores naturally exist in the air, it is impossible to eliminate every possibility that the contamination will return. However, with the use of industrially advanced techniques and equipment, we can remove the majority of the mold contamination in most situations.
Before we work towards removing mold from contaminated surfaces, our SERVPRO technicians set up plastic barriers to trap in any harmful particles created during the removal process. Once containment is established we attach an air scrubber to the chamber that creates negative air pressure inside the affected area. This causes any spores or other harmful particles that get released when we scrape or sand off the contamination to get pulled through a HEPA filter before being exhausted back into the environment.
When removing the hyphae structures from the contaminated surfaces, we sometimes use methods other than scraping or sanding for delicate materials. In some cases, we use soda blasters or dry ice pellet blasting methods to remove the contamination. If you ever notice any type of fungal contamination, call SERVPRO of Casa Grande at (520) 421-1894 24/7.
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Our Crew At SERVPRO Can Help You With Your Mold Damage Emergency In Florence
10/9/2018 (Permalink)
Our SERVPRO mold remediation technicians have the unique training and safety expertise to overcome mold in your home.
Mold Can Grow Unexpectedly in Your Florence Residence
While you might never welcome disasters into your Florence home, at the very least, you can always have a semblance of understanding about the damages that they can cause to your residence and the process to restore these damages. The situations that you have to really worry about how to resolve are the ones that you did not anticipate or prepare for, such as mold growth in specific areas of your house.
Several Florence homeowners are still under the impression that mold damages are nothing that they should worry about, let alone respond immediately over. The truth is the longer that colonies survive and thrive, the wider the array of damage to structural components and the greater risks that you allow for potential health effects for people and pets who occupy your home. Our SERVPRO mold remediation technicians have the unique training and safety expertise to overcome this organism in your home and to restore the damage that it has caused.
One of the troublesome things about mold growth is that some homeowners might not know of its existence until the problem has gotten out of hand. This unexpected presence in your home requires immediate attention and concentrated removal techniques of our SERVPRO technicians. For the removal of the colony itself from materials, often soda blasting and sanding are approaches we use to penetrate deeply enough to remove the entire hyphae.
Additionally, we isolate the affected area of your house to prevent the spread of active spores to other locations around your home. This process requires shutting down air circulation and conditioning appliances until the remediation work completes and the risk of spreading the organism throughout your residence has gotten removed.
Mold growth might not be something that a homeowner gets prepared to find in their house, but one that requires fast reactions to keep it from ruining building materials and the contents of your home. You can depend on our SERVPRO of Casa Grande applied microbial remediation technicians to help you remove the colony efficiently and return your house to the way it used to be. You can reach our emergency response team anytime at (520) 421-1894.
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Water Losses in Your Maricopa Home Can Allow for Mold Growth
8/16/2018 (Permalink)
Water and Moisture Lead to Mold Damage in a Maricopa Bathroom that SERVPRO Can Cleanup and Remediate
Mold Remediation by SERVPRO Technicians Can Be the Solution for Maricopa Property Owners
Many Maricopa homeowners are still struggling to keep up with the lingering damages that the recent monsoon season has left throughout the area. High volumes of water inside of homes leaves substantial, costly damages to residences all across the area. Even with the widespread flooding and storm damages, another wave of damages begins just a few short days later.
Many homeowners do not realize that mold spores exist naturally in the environment around you. No matter where you are, from inside of your house to the office space across town, avoiding mold damages to your Maricopa house is understanding how readily available this threat is to seat, colonize, and spread throughout your home.
While you can not see mold spores floating around your house or in the outside world, this microscopic intruder is waiting for the conditions to get met so that it can form into the destructive organism that you might already recognize. Even with the rapid response of our SERVPRO water damage restoration specialists, the area might already have begun the process of colonization. Fortunately, our AMRT applied microbial remediation technicians can clean out the infested area and disinfect to help prevent future fungi patches from appearing.
At the first signs of mold growth in your flood or water damaged home, you need to reach out to our SERVPRO applied microbial remediation technicians. This specialized team is uniquely trained to remove mold colonies safely and quickly using state of the art equipment and modern approaches.
To avoid mold growth and damages in your home, you need to respond and react quickly to signs of water or flood damages in your house. The longer this water can saturate materials and provide a moisture-ridden environment, spores have the time and opportunity to colonize.
Understand that mold growth in your home is something that is often avoidable, and should be a prioritized concern for any homeowner who discovers it on their property. With the potential health effects it can cause along with the widespread structural weakening on affected surfaces and staining, it is essential to take care of this problem as soon as you find it. Give our SERVPRO of Casa Grande headquarters a call any time at (520) 421-1894.
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SERVPRO - Stopping And Cleaning Out Mold Damage In Maricopa
5/21/2018 (Permalink)
SERVPRO has a varaity of tools and equipment like this air scrubber to remove mold damage from your home.
At the first sign of mold contact SERVPRO to remediate the damage
Although we are not in the middle of the desert, Maricopa is still not a city where residents think too much about mold. Most people consider a problem for areas that are hot and damp, not hot and dry. The facts are that inside any home mold can grow when it has enough moisture, food, and the right temperature.
That means to stop mold damage in Maricopa homes, SERVPRO restoration specialists have to find and remove the source of moisture. Mold spores can thrive in a range of 68 to 86 degrees, the range most homes try to maintain year-round. They also feed on nearly everything in a home, to include almost every building material except for iron, steel, and aluminum.
Most mold growths in our area begin with a simple leak. Often, there is a loose pipe connection or a rusting faucet in a wall or a laundry room that is the culprit. Even just a small amount of water can start the problem if enough spores become wet enough to expand and start to grow over the nearest surface, searching for food and more moisture to further grow the colony.
After arriving at each home, SERVPRO technicians perform a visual inspection and use air content meters to find the highest concentration of spores and trace that to its source. Once they find it, our teams have two tasks: stop the leak and clean out the mold.
If the problem is a minor one, like a loose connection or hose on a washing machine, our technicians can fix that. If it is a major issue, such as an entire section of pipe rusting out, the team leader always recommends bringing in a plumber or general contractor to make the repairs.
Once they stop the source of moisture, our specialists spray the affected property with an anti-bacterial agent. It kills any active spores, and then the team members wipe down every surface or use a vacuum with a specially designed HEPA filter to capture them. If the mold had time to grow into a surface like wood paneling, the team carefully removes it for disposal. They dispose of all mold outside the home and according to Arizona state requirements.
Removing the effects of mold in any home is not easy, but SERVPRO of Casa Grande works diligently to make it as easy on a homeowner as possible. If you have or suspect this problem is in your home, call us today at (520) 421-1894 to schedule a visit and inspection. We are here for you.
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Mold: Act Quickly with Professionals
1/5/2018 (Permalink)
Don't let water damage become a mold problem!
If you Google “How to Remove Mold” there are about 23,700,000 results that appear in less than one second. That’s 23 million opinions on how to remove mold from articles in newspapers, magazines, books, scientific firms, product placements, DIY’ers, Wikipedia, and companies with both good and bad reputations for being able to remove mold from your home. Topics include “How to Get Rid of Black Mold the Cheap Way”, “The Truth About Mold Removal” and “DIY Black Mold Removal”.
So what should you REALLY do? Call the respected and trained professionals at SERVPRO of Casa Grande. Why is that the first step? It’s because by calling our highly regarded staff, help is on its way! Our professionals are trained in mold remediation and they will begin by examining your home or business for any visible signs of mold. It may be recommended that you leave the affected area while the mold cleanup and containment process is safely being completed. Some situations require bringing in an Indoor Air Quality / Environmental Specialist for further testing. In most cases even excessive mold growth is not a problem to remove. Our priority is your health and safety, especially for “at risk” individuals which may include immune suppressed or compromised individuals, young children and individuals with chronic lung diseases such as asthma and severe allergies. Step Two is to follow step one and call the SERVPRO of Casa Grande team at 520-421-1894.
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6/9/2016 (Permalink)
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