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Canadian Mould and Mildew Remediation, Mould
Control, and Mould and Mildew Removal Protocol, using non-toxic, natural
products and procedures:
Mold and Mildew Remediation, Mold Control,
and
Mold and Mildew Removal Protocol,
using
non-toxic,
natural products and procedures: 25
Mold Remediation & Removal Steps for Effective
Mold Cleaning, Mold Maintenance, Mold
Killing, Mold Mitigation, and Mold
Abatement to Get Rid of Toxic Black Mold, Slime Mold Stachybotrys, and
Household Mold. How To Clean Up and kill Mold Contamination and Infestation Caused by
Roof Leaks, Siding Leaks, Plumbing Leaks,
High Indoor Humidity, Flooding,
Hurricanes, Typhoons, Tropical Cyclones, Tornados,
Storms,
Fire, and other Water Damage
Problems. How To Clean and Remove Mold Growth in Basements, Attics,
and Inside Walls, Ceilings, and Heating/Cooling Equipment and Ducts.
Just four words neatly summarize what has to be done in effective and safe
mold removal, mold remediation, mold mitigation, and mold abatement:
CONTAIN, KILL, REMOVE, and PROTECT.
(1) CONTAIN
the mold from spreading into uncontaminated areas;
(2) KILL
the mold;
(3) REMOVE
the dead mold; and
(4) PROTECT
the cleaned out area against future mold infestations.
When doing your own mold removal and mold
remediation, please follow these twenty-five steps
to completely and safely remove mold problems, contamination, and
infestation from your home, condominium, rental apartments, office,
warehouse, retail store or other real estate building. Where relevant,
mold testing and mold remediation suggestions from the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency are included below.
The proven and effective mold removal and remediation procedures
listed here are excellent techniques for removing and remediating mold
from wood and other cellulose-based building materials such as OSB board,
drywall, plaster, plywood, and ceiling tile, as well as mold growing on
concrete and masonry surfaces such as bricks, blocks, and poured concrete
walls and floors. The most affordable and most effective safe,
non-toxic mold cleaner,
mold killer, and mold remover is
boric acid
powder, which is available for your purchase at
Mold Mart.
Inspect inside walls, ceilings, floors, heating/cooling ducts and HVAC
equipment, and low-height crawl spaces and attics, as well as behind and
under showers, tubs, and kitchen and bathroom cabinets to find hidden mold
growth with your own
Video PRO Inspection Scope.
Kill mold spores and mold growth thoroughly and effectively inside
heating/cooling equipment and ducts and everywhere in your home, office,
or workplace with an EnviroDetectives™
ozone blasting generator.
To remove mold from furniture, appliances, clothing, and other personal
property, the detailed mold decontamination instructions and
procedures for each different type of personal property, as explained in
the mold do it yourself book
Do-It-BEST-Yourself Mold Prevention, Inspection, Testing, and Remediation. The most affordable and most effective safe,
non-toxic mold cleaner,
mold killer, and mold remover
for cleaning personal possessions is
boric acid
powder, which is available for your purchase at
Mold Mart.
1. Study these do it yourself steps recommended for results-oriented
toxic black mold and household mold inspection, testing, and remediation.
You should also read carefully mold expert Phillip Fry's in depth ebook
Do It Best Yourself Mold Inspection, Testing, Remediation, and
Prevention, only $15 or email attachment delivery to you from
Mold Mart. Learn how to make affordable,
easy-to-make homemade fungicides and antimicrobial coatings (from readily
available, non-bleach household products and other items readily available
in your community) in the special report
Home Mold Remedy Recipes. If
your family or co-workers are facing mold health issues, read the
available and latest mold medical diagnostic and treatment procedures in
Mold Health Guide ebook. If you need information about
prosecuting or defending a mold legal lawsuit, read
Mold Legal Guide [ebook]. Each ebook is only $15.00 each,
or buy all five available mold books for only $49.total in the
mold library combination.
2. Locate and fix all
sources of mold-causing water intrusion such as recurring flooding,
plumbing leaks, leaky roofs or siding, blocked air-conditioning
condensation drain lines, and high indoor humidity (above 60 to 70%). Follow the
hundreds of water-intrusion prevention and remediation
suggestions contained in the in depth ebook
Do-It-BEST-Yourself Mold Prevention, Inspection, Testing, and Remediation.
3. Inspect and mold test
inside, above, and below each water-penetrated ceiling, wall, and floor
with a fiber optics inspection device, a
hidden moisture
meter, do-it-yourself
mold test kits, and by cutting small (one inch by one
inch or bigger) core dry wall samples to look for mold growth inside the
drywall samples and on the backside (inner wall) side of the samples. You
can also cut off thin veneer moldy slices from each core sampling, and
then insert each veneer slice into a do it yourself
mold test kit to watch
for mold growth over a 7 day time period. More valuable to you in mold
insights, would be to put each sample into a separate ziplock bag properly
labeled with property address, precise testing location at that address,
date of testing, name of tester [you probably], and your full contact
info, and then to mail your collected samples to the Mold Mart partner
mold analysis laboratory. For low-cost mold testing, you can also use
inexpensive Scotch®Tape or equivalent quality tape to do
lift tape mold sampling and/or do
bulk physical sampling (collect physical pieces of moldy building
materials or other items), and then send the tape samples or bulk samples
to a mold lab of your choice for mold lab analysis for mold species
identification. You can also use EnviroDetectives™
mold test kits for total mold testing of your home or other building,
especially for testing of room air and of the outward air flow from
heating/cooling duct registers (for likely elevated levels of airborne
mold spores).
4. Find and locate all
toxic mold infestations (visible and hidden) in the entire home or
building by thorough, all-around mold inspection and mold testing (with
mold test kits, mold laboratory analysis and
mold species identification of collected mold samples). "You may suspect
hidden mold if a building smells moldy, but you cannot see the source, or
if you know there has been water damage and residents are reporting health
problems. Mold may be hidden in places such as the back side of dry wall,
wallpaper, or paneling, the top side of ceiling tiles, the underside of
carpets and pads, etc. Other possible locations of hidden mold include
areas inside walls around pipes (with leaking or condensing pipes), the
surface of walls behind furniture (where condensation forms), inside
ductwork, and in roof materials above ceiling tiles (due to roof leaks or
insufficient insulation)," warns the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
° For
all building locations wherein you see visible mold, use the clear Scotch
tape
lift sampling method, or scrape visible mold particles into a
mold test kit.
° Conduct
a mold control test using a do-it-yourself
mold test kit
outside your home or building with the test kit being at least five feet
beyond the outside edge of
any roof or porch overhang. You need this outdoor control test for
comparison of results from your indoor mold testing.
°
Use a
fiber optics inspection device, a hidden moisture meter, and
internal wall and ceiling cavity mold testing to search for hidden mold
growth.
5. Test the outward airflow
from each heating/cooling duct register for elevated levels of airborne
mold spores with
mold test kits. If there is a serious toxic mold infestation
anywhere in a building, airborne mold spores from such mold locations will
usually enter and contaminate the heating/cooling equipment and ducts, as
well as the rest of the building (mold cross contamination). To test your
heating/cooling equipments and ducts for elevated levels of mold spores
and mold growth, use EnviroDetectives™
mold test kits. You tape
the open side of the mold test kit to the outside of the HVAC grill
register or window air conditioner air supply grill so that the sticky side of the kit
is facing the outward
air flow from the heating/cooling duct register. Run your air conditioning system or window air conditioner on fan ventilation (no
heating or cooling) for 10 minutes. Then, remove the mold test kits, put
the lids back on, seal the outside edge of the closed mold test kit lab
dishes and then watch for mold growth over a 7 day time period. You can
then send the EnviroDetectives™ mold test kits to mold expert
Phillip Fry for his professional analysis of the mold results (but no mold
species identification), and/or send the mold test kits to the Mold Mart
mold lab for mold
species identification and quantification.
6. Replace mold-infested heating/cooling equipment and ducts if you can
afford to do so. Otherwise, do repeated mold fogging and mold
spraying with a
mold fogging
machine, a sprayer, and a
mold home remedy recipe or
boric acid powder formula into the return air duct while the system is
running on fan ventilation to deliver the fungicide to internal surfaces.
Do mold fogging or spraying for at least one half hour to hour into the
return air duct of the central heating/cooling system. Fogging is much
more wide-reaching in its mold-killing power than is spraying.
Alternatively and even more effective, use the best, start-of-the-art
ozone blaster (available at
EnviroDetectives™) to blast high levels of ozone gas into the
heating/cooling equipment and ducts to
completely and effectively kill mold growth and mold spores in such ozone-treated areas.
When doing ozone blasting, there must be NO people, pets, or plants in the
ozone-treated area (your entire house if you are putting ozone into a
central heating/cooling system). You use the unit's timer to turn on and
turn off the ozone blaster inside the treatment area, or you can use a
long extension electric power cord that plugs in outside the treated area
(plug and unplug the cord to start and stop the blaster). Please read the
EnviroDetectives™ BiO3Blaster™
Ozone Generator Instruction Manual.
If there is a serious mold
problem anywhere in a home or other building, airborne mold spores from
those points of mold contamination will be sucked into the heating/cooling
ducts and/or equipment to mold contaminate both, and thus the entire
building. Most important: if there is mold infestation growing inside the
heating/cooling ducts and/or equipment, the heating/cooling system will
efficiently spread airborne mold spores through out the entire home or
building through air distribution of the running system. In any home or
building with mold infestation, you need to mold test the outward air flow
from each heating/cooling duct register for the possible presence of
elevated levels of airborne mold spores in comparison with your outdoor
mold control test. To test your heating/cooling equipments and ducts for
elevated levels of mold spores and mold growth, use EnviroDetectives™
mold test kits. You tape
the open side of the mold test kit to the outside of the HVAC grill
register or window air conditioner air supply grill so that the sticky side of the kit
is facing the outward
air flow from the heating/cooling duct register. Run your air conditioning system or window air conditioner on fan ventilation (no
heating or cooling) for 10 minutes. Then, remove the mold test kits, put
the lids back on, seal the outside edge of the closed mold test kit lab
dishes and then watch for mold growth over a 7 day time period. You can
then send the EnviroDetectives™ mold test kits to mold expert
Phillip Fry for his professional analysis of the mold results (but no mold
species identification), and/or send the mold test kits to the Mold Mart
mold lab for mold
species identification and quantification.
When doing mold remediation of
a house or building, the heating/cooling mold problems should be fixed
first, and then you can seal tightly with plastic sheeting all inward and
outward duct registers. Don't run the system until the rest of the home
has been effectively mold remediated and the building has passed mold
clearance tests done with do-it-yourself
mold test kits.
If you fog a
mold home remedy recipe or
boric acid powder formula into the return air duct while the system is
running on fan ventilation, you can get substantial amounts of mold remedy
delivered throughout the system. While spraying or fogging a mold
fungicide (spraying step 1) and subsequently a
Mold Home Remedy Recipe (spraying/fogging step 2) inside the
heating/cooling ducts and equipment, no one (except the safely-protected
applicator person) should be in the home or building during the spraying
or fogging application. The person doing the spraying or
fogging application needs to wear proper personal protective gear, as
explained at point 13 below.
7. If any residents or
workers are experiencing any possible toxic
mold health
symptoms, or if there is a strong smell of mold, or if there
are visible signs of major
mold growth
anywhere in the building, or if the building tests positive for elevated
levels of airborne mold spores, the occupants should move temporarily to a
mold-safe place until after successful mold remediation and clearance
testing.
Hot Tip: Do you want or need
quick and immediate mold relief? Use the best, start-of-the-art
ozone blasters to blast high levels of ozone gas into moldy areas, such as
inside
heating/cooling equipment and ducts, crawl spaces, basements, attics, and
rooms to
completely and effectively kill mold growth and mold spores in such ozone-treated areas.
Ozone blasting should be both one of your your first and last steps in
the mold remediation process. In between your initial and final
ozone blasting treatments, you should also physically remove and discard
all mold growth and any building materials that are severely water and/or
mold damaged. When doing ozone blasting, there must be NO people, pets, or
plants in the ozone-treated area. You use the unit's timer to turn on and
turn off the ozone blaster inside the treatment area, or you can use a
long extension electric power cord that plugs in outside the treated area
(plug and unplug the cord to start and stop the blaster). Please read the
EnviroDetectives™ BiO3Blaster™
Ozone Generator Instruction Manual.
8. Occupants moving out
should not take any clothing, personal possessions, furnishings,
furniture, or equipment until after such items have been effectively
mold decontaminated outdoors (or in a clean room built from plastic
sheeting) to avoid mold cross contamination of the temporary living or
working quarters. How to properly mold clean each type of personal effect
and personal property is explained in the in depth ebook
Do-It-Best-Yourself Mold Inspection, Testing, Remediation, and Prevention.
9. Do not paint over mold
problems. Mold loves to eat paint as a snack food. Don’t expect to
kill mold successfully by using paint containing a mildicide [too mild to
kill existing toxic mold infestation] or with a
paint
primer sold to hide water damage stains. Do not rely on
Kilz to
kill mold or anything---it does not kill mold, and the
product is NOT an EPA-registered fungicide. Kilz is only a product to hide
or camouflage defects like water damage stains prior to painting over
problem areas.
10. Before beginning to
work in the mold-afflicted areas, contain the moldy work area (and thus
contain the toxic mold spores that will be released into the air by
opening up mold-contaminated areas) by using wall-to-wall,
floor-to-ceiling plastic sheeting as containment walls. How to make
effective mold containment walls, including a mold-secure entry way into
the mold containment area, is explained in detail in the ebook
Do-It-Best-Yourself Mold Prevention, Inspection, Testing, and Remediation.
Use 6 mill thick, clear plastic sheeting that you can buy at a hardware
store or home improvement center. Containing separate areas of the house
by closing windows and doors or installing plastic sheeting walls is very
helpful to effective
ozone blasting by doing ozone treatment in one contained area at a
time. Please read the EnviroDetectives™ BiO3Blaster™
Ozone Generator Instruction Manual.
11.
After the installation of the air tight mold containment walls, dry the
mold remediation work area (especially if still wet from the fixed
water leaks, roof leaks, etc.) with one or more large dehumidifiers or an
industrial size dehumidifier. Improper fan drying (no containment
walls) can spread
mold spores to cross contaminate an entire home building and its
heating/cooling system. Having all of the work remediation area timbers
very dry (from running the dehumidifier) increases the absorption capacity
of the timbers to soak in
mold remediation mold cleaners and mold killers such as
boric acid powder, available at the online
mold store.
12. Inside the mold
containment area, use a large fan in the window to exhaust air directly
outside on a continuous basis to expel airborne mold spores and
remediation-caused dust---or better yet,
Use a large fan placed securely in an outside window inside the mold
containment area to exhaust room air directly outside
on a continuous basis to expel airborne
mold spores and remediation-caused dust---or better yet, use an
industrial
hepa filter to filter out mold, with a flexible hose directly
venting the exhaust air flow to the outdoors. You need to exhaust more air
to the outside than is entering the containment area to create
negative air pressure. (You know you have negative air pressure
when the plastic containment sheets are being sucked inward toward the
work area rather than bulging outward away from the work area.).
If you are doing ozone blasting, it is very helpful during the ozone
treatment time to run the HVAC system on fan ventilation and to use large
fans inside the treatment area to spread the ozone gas everywhere in the
treatment area. Please read the EnviroDetectives™
BiO3Blaster™
Ozone Generator Instruction Manual.
13.
While working inside the mold containment
area, always wear effective protective gear such as protective
biohazard suit ($7 to $10 at safety stores) such as a Tyvek™ suit or
painter's coveralls and booties or a long sleeve shirt and pants; gloves;
disposable latex gloves or good
quality work gloves, and eye goggles (with no breathing holes to
let
mold spores into your eyes) and a 3M brand or similar quality N-95
breathing mask (about $2 each), or, better yet, a one piece, full face
breathing respirator mask (such as 3M brand) using an organic vapor
cartridge filtration filter, available from local safety, hardware, and
home improvement stores. Discard the Tyvek™ suit or painter’s
coveralls/booties, disposable gloves, and N-95 breathing mask at the end
of each day. If you are using a full face breathing respirator mask, clean
it with rubbing alcohol inside and out at the end of each work day.
►As to
gloves: "Long gloves that extend to the middle of the forearm are
recommended. When working with water and a mild detergent, ordinary
household rubber gloves may be used. If you are using a
disinfectant, a biocide such as chlorine bleach, or a strong cleaning
solution, you should select gloves made from
natural rubber,
neoprene, nitrile, polyurethane, or PVC. Avoid touching mold or moldy
items with your bare hands," recommends the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency.
►As to breathing masks, please read
this advice from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:
"In order to limit your exposure to airborne mold, you may want to
wear an N-95 respirator, available at many
hardware stores and
from companies that advertise on the Internet. (They cost about $12 to
$25.) Some N-95 respirators resemble a paper dust mask with a nozzle on
the front, others are made primarily of plastic or rubber and have
removable cartridges that trap most of the mold spores from entering. In
order to be effective, the respirator or mask must fit properly, so
carefully follow the instructions supplied with the respirator. Please
note that the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires that
respirators fit properly (fit testing) when used in an occupational
setting; consult OSHA for more information (800-321-OSHA
or
osha.gov)."
You can order a custom-fitted full face breathing mask by contacting your
local 3M branch. Custom-fitted full
face masks do a
better job of keeping mold spores from entering inside the mask [and
therefore into your body]. If you have a beard, shave
it off prior to wearing a
full face mask breathing respirator to obtain a tighter fit to your
face to help keep mold stores from entering inside the mask and your body.
►As to eye goggles, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency advises: "Goggles that do not have
ventilation holes are recommended. Avoid getting mold or mold spores in
your eyes."
►After the end of each day’s
mold remediation work,
remove your protective clothing and gear just outside the containment area
and put the protective clothing and gear into a plastic bag (and close it)
for carrying them out of the house or building.
Do shower (including hair
shampoo) preferably at the work site (if possible) and again at your
living quarters or home.
14.
Kill surface
mold growth by with either
ozone blasting and/or with one or two wet sprayings or foggings
of
boric acid powder
after you do ozone blasting.
Please read the EnviroDetectives™ BiO3Blaster™
Ozone Generator Instruction Manual. While
spraying or fogging boric acid formula, no one else (other than the
mold remediation
workers) should be inside until the spray or fog has dried. Use a
hand-pumped garden sprayer, small electric sprayer, or a
fogging machine (for hard-to-get-at areas). If doing mold fogging,
fog the boric acid
powder formula for at least one half hour in each room, and
one half hour to hour into the
return air duct of
the central heating/cooling system while the heating/cooling system is
running on fan ventilation. If possible, remove all furniture and other
moveable items from each room to be sprayed or fogged so that you don’t
have furniture, appliances, or other items furniture blocking access of
the boric acid to all wall and floor surfaces. Then repeat the process but
on the second effort with the furniture and other items put back in the
room to do mold killing on the furniture itself.
15. Do
NOT use chlorine
bleach (sodium hypochlorite) to kill mold or disinfect moldy areas.
Bleach is not an effective or lasting killer of toxic mold
growth and mold spores on and inside porous, cellulose building materials
such as wood timbers, drywall, plasterboard, particleboard, plywood,
plywood substitutes, ceiling tiles, and carpeting/padding. The
most affordable and most effective safe, non-toxic mold cleaner,
mold killer, and mold remover
which is
boric acid, available for your purchase at
http://www.moldmart.net.
16.
After the killing all
of visible surface mold with surface spraying, the next step is to remove
and to clean off as much surface mold growth, mold stains, and mold odors
as possible. "Dead mold may still cause allergic reactions in
some people, so it is not enough to simply kill the mold, it must also be
removed," recommends the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
A good first step is to use a hepa vacuum cleaner to remove dust,
dirt, and loose (invisible to the eye) airborne
mold spores and mold growths deposited on all surfaces such as
ceilings, walls, floors, and upholstered furniture. Vacuum at least twice,
going in a different movement direction each time you do the vacuuming---e.g.,
horizontally the first time and vertically the second time.
Scrub and clean thoroughly and completely all moldy or mold-exposed
surfaces [including furniture and appliances] with a good mold cleaner
such as boric acid formula, which is available at the
Mold
Store. The cleaned area should then be thoroughly
dried with dehumidifiers and/or fans. Dispose of any sponges or rags used
to clean mold. If you cannot clean off the mold growth and mold stains
with intensive and thorough mold cleaning, then your next step is to
physically remove remaining mold growth with a wire brush attached to an
electric drill, power planer, power sander, and manual tools with the same
functions. Your goal is to clean the wood to a visibly mold-free
condition. If the mold growth is too deeply embedded/grown into the wood
to be removed readily with the above tools, you need to replace the
building materials themselves with new ones---preventively-treated with
boric acid formula as a mold protectant. "If you are
unsure about how to clean an item, or if the item is expensive or of
sentimental value, you may wish to consult a specialist. Specialists in
furniture repair, restoration, painting, art restoration and conservation,
carpet and rug cleaning,
water damage, and fire or water restoration are commonly listed in
phone books. Be sure to ask for and check references. Look for
specialists who are affiliated with professional organizations,"
recommends the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
17. Except for wood
support timbers and building materials to be saved, remove and safely
discard all other mold-contaminated building materials (such as
particle board, drywall, plaster, plasterboard, ceiling tiles,
paper-backed insulation, mold-laden insulation, plywood, plywood
substitutes, and carpeting/padding) in doubled up construction trash bags
(double bagging) with a 6 mil thickness. "Absorbent or porous materials,
such as ceiling tiles and carpet, may have to be thrown away if they
become moldy. Mold can grow on or fill in the empty spaces and crevices
of porous materials, so the mold may be difficult or impossible to remove
completely," advises the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
18. Remove all
mold growth from the mold-infested wood surfaces. All wood beams,
wall timbers, roof trusses,
floor joists, plywood surfaces, and other lumber to be saved need to be
totally cleaned of mold growth by
using power tools
such as a planer, grinder with
wire brush attachment, and sander---or replace the moldy timbers.
You can also clean and remove mold by using a
Mold Home Remedy Recipe or
Boric acid formula, available at the
Mold Store. Mold
cannot eat polystyrene insulating board such as Pinkboard or Blueboard or
fiberglass insulation, but mold can grow on organic dust which lands on
the insulating board or fiberglass insulation. Mold can also eat the paper
backing of insulation. "The only sure way to (kill mold) requires
the physical elimination of mold and moldy materials by thorough cleaning
or removal of the affected materials."---American Industrial Hygiene
Association.
19. Re-spray
twice the cleaned out area with another wet spraying of an
effective
mold home remedy
or with boric acid
powder formula (available at the
Mold Store) to
kill any remaining, living
toxic mold spores or mold growths. Alternatively, or after the
above spraying, do
ozone blasting of the entire mold-remediated building, including
inside its heating/cooling equipment and ducts. Please read the
EnviroDetectives™ BiO3Blaster™
Ozone Generator Instruction Manual.
20. Spray a protective
fungicidal coating on all remediated-surfaces prior to rebuilding and
closing in the mold-remediated area. The fungicidal coating helps to
protect the wood and other cellulose-based building materials against
future mold growth. After the second spraying of a
mold home remedy recipe or
boric acid powder formula
has dried, spray one or two wet coatings of a mold home remedy
fungicidal coating designed to protect wood against future wood
infestation problems. Alternatively, or after the
above spraying, do
ozone blasting of the entire mold-remediated building, including
inside its heating/cooling equipment and ducts. Please read the
EnviroDetectives™ BiO3Blaster™
Ozone Generator Instruction Manual.
21.
After the final drying
of the second
Boric acid spraying, it would be helpful to spray all cleaned
timbers and other wood surfaces with a clear, liquid, plastic coating
such as clear polyurethane paint such as Varathane Professional
Polyurethane or a
competing brand (available from a well-stocked local paint dealer,
hardware store, or
home improvement center) to make a hard, impenetrable water barrier
(upon drying) to protect the
wood from future high humidity and water leaks.
22.
After the
toxic mold remediation
is completed, mold test (clearance testing) several to many of the mold-remediated
timbers and other surfaces in the mold remediation area with do it
yourself
mold test kits
plus test the air of all mold remediated areas. Also, please use the mold
test kits to mold test the outward air flow
from the heating/cooling duct registers in all mold remediated areas
to find out if
those areas are now mold safe (very low mold counts in the mold lab test
results or your observing any mold growth in the mold test kits over a 7
day time priod) prior to rebuilding the mold remediated area with new building
materials. "Surface sampling may be useful to determine if an area has
been adequately cleaned or remediated," advices the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. In addition, there should be NO residual
mold smell and no visible mold or water stains anywhere in mold remediated
areas.
23. Remove mold growth, mold stains, and mold
odors from all personal property, furnishings, furniture, and equipment
that have been exposed to mold infestation by washing and scrubbing
the items thoroughly and completely outdoors [or in a plastic-sheet-built
clean room] with a
Mold Home Remedy Recipe or
boric acid powder formula. Learn the recommended mold
decontamination procedures for each type of clothing, furniture,
electronics equipment, and other personal property in the ebook
Do-It-Best-Yourself Mold Prevention, Inspection, Testing, and Remediation.
You can also effective mold de-contamination of personal property by
putting the items into a closed room or area, and then running an
ozone blaster for one hour inside that treatment room.
Please read the EnviroDetectives™ BiO3Blaster™
Ozone Generator Instruction Manual.
24.
Close in the mold-remediated area with
mold-free, new building
materials that been have carefully inspected to be
mold-growth-free, and which have been pre-treated by spraying with one to
two wet coatings of
Boric acid powder formula, available at the
Mold Store.
Spray all sides and ends of new timbers and all four
edges of drywall sheets.
25. On-going cleaning,
building maintenance, mold maintenance, and all-around building inspection
on a regular basis (including air conditioning/heating equipment and
ducts, plumbing, roof, siding, windows, and water supply/sewer lines) are
required to help prevent the re-occurrence of toxic mold infestation
problems. A mold-safe building is not a one-time effort.
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