Effective Mold Removal Techniques and Tips

For mold inspection, building mold inspection, mold inspector directory, mold remediation, and mold prevention for your real estate property anywhere in USA, Canada, Asia, Europe, or worldwide, please contact mold consultants Phillip and Divine Fry by email phil@moldinspector.com or call Phillip Toll-Free 1-866-300-1616 USA/ Canada, or Phillip's cell phone 1-480-310-7970 Air Conditioner Mold

Photograph of the inside of a thick plastic sheeting containment wall. Notice that it is bulging inward because the plastic is being pulled inward [toward the mold remediation area] by the negative air pressure maintained inside the mold work area.

Courtesy of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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Mold Removal Q & A Q. Dec. 22, 2011. Do you have any warranty after you have completed a mold remediation job? If there are subsequent mold problems, what is your after sales service? A. Yes, Phillip Fry and Divine Fry of EnviroFry are always available to provide answers and help to our clients long after the mold remediation job is completed. You can email or phone us anytime for our FREE email and phone follow up advice as one of our clients. If you need us to come back to the property for more mold remediation at a future date, we can do that too, but you would pay the time and materials for such subsequent mold remediation services. We also teach you how to do your own mold remediation while we are getting rid of your current mold problems so that you are more self-sufficient and able to do what needs to be done for any future mold growth.Long-term mold remediation success requires that there be ongoing, continual proper preventive maintenance by the property owner to keep mold from returning again. For example, a property owner needs to be always watching for new roof leaks and plumbing leaks can start new mold growth problems. Prevention of future water problems is the key to the prevention of future mold problems. The fact that future mold growth is almost entirely in the hands of the property owner makes it impossible for a mold remediator to warranty that there will be no future mold growth. One of the best mold prevention steps we take in doing mold remediation projects is a liberal use of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency mold killer and mold preventativeTim-Bor. We leave a white powdering coating of mold-preventing Tim-Bor on surfaces such as inside walls and ceilings, inside heating/cooling equipment and air ducts, and in basements, attics, and crawl spaces. We also mix large quantities of Tim-Bor into paint used to re-paint water damaged and mold remediated surfaces such as walls and ceilings.

Picture of Certified Mold Remediator and mold consultant Divine Montero using Tim-Bor in scrubbing the walls of a Bangkok, Thailand, house that she and Phillip Fry mold remediated in Jan., 2012.

Exhaust the airborne mold spores released in the mold remediation to the outdoors by running a strong fan 24 hours in an open window. Better yet, use an industrial-sized hepa filter machine to capture airborne mold spores in its HEPA filters prior to exhausting air to the outdoors through flexible ducting. Picture taken January, 2012, during mold remediation in Thailand by mold experts Phillip and Divine Fry.

Mold Consultants Phillip and Divine Fry and the Environmental Hygienists Association recommends that property owners, managers, and tenants take all ten of these proven steps in the order listed for perfect do-it-yourself or professionally-done toxic mold removal. 1. Mold Inspection and Mold Testing. Do thorough and complete mold inspection and testing to find all areas of both visible and mold growth hidden inside ceilings, walls, floors, heating/cooling equipment and ducts, crawl spaces, basements, and attics. Use a moisture meter, hygrometer humidity meter, and fiber optics inspection to help find hard-to-find mold infestation. After the completion of all mold removal steps, use do it yourself or professional clearance mold testing of the air of remediated rooms, the outward air flow from heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) duct registers, and horizontal and vertical surfaces inside the mold work area. For independent mold clearance testing in the USA, Canada, Asia, Europe, and worldwide, please visit Mold Consultants and Certified Mold Inspectors. 2. Proper Containment. Seal off the room or area to be mold remediated with 6 mil thick floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall, clear plastic sheeting so that mold spores released during mold removal do not travel to and mold cross-contaminate other areas. 3. Proper Worker Protection. Mold removal workers should wear a 3M or comparable breathing respirator mask with organic vapor filters rated P100, available for about $40 from a large hardware or home improvement store, plus eye goggles with no holes (chem splash type), disposable vinyl gloves, and Tyvek or comparable protective body suits with built-in parka hood and booties. 4. Ozone Treatment. The first and last mold kill steps should be to operate a high output ozone generator for at least six to eight hours inside the buildings heating/cooling equipment and ducts and inside the rooms or areas being mold remediated. The best value, high output ozone generator is the Bio3Blaster, available at Ozone Generator. There can be no people, pets, or live plants inside the area being ozone treated. 5. Mold Enzyme Treatment. Spray a wet coating of mold-dissolving enzymes on all visible moldy surfaces and adjacent surfaces to help separate mold growth from the building materials being eaten by the mold. MoldZyme is available at http://www.molddiy.com. Allow the MoldZyme to soak into the moldy building materials for 30 minutes before removing the mold growth (Step Six below). 6. HEPA Air Scrubbing and Vacuuming. After the completion of the ozone and mold enzyme treatments, run one or more HEPA industrial-sized air scrubbers inside the contained mold work area to establish negative air pressure therein to collect airborne mold sporesS, with the HEPA exhaust air duct going directly to the outdoors. Use one or more HEPA vacuums to vacuum walls, floors, carpeting, and furnishing surfaces three ways---horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. 7. Physical Mold Removal. While operating a HEPA air scrubber inside the mold work area, remove all visible mold growth by removing and discarding materials such as moldy drywall, curtains, and carpeting, and by cleaning wood timbers to visibly mold-free with the use of a power grinder with wire brush attachment, power sander, power planer, and/or hand held wire brushes and sanding blocks. 8. Safe Disposal of Moldy Materials. While inside the contained mold work area, place all removed moldy materials into 6 mil thick garbage disposal bags. Then, put each full bag inside a second 6 mil thick bag (known as double bagging). Then, wipe off the outside of the outer bag with a cloth lightly damp with hydrogen peroxide or borax laundry detergent dissolved into water to remove any landed or deposited mold spores. Then remove the bags to the outdoors through windows or doors without taking the bags through building areas that are outside of the contained work area. 9. Encapsulation of Wood Timbers. After completion of the above steps, paint all exposed and remediated wood timber surfaces with white, glossy latex enamel paint into which one half pound of the EPA-registered fungicide Tim-Bor has been thoroughly mixed. Tim-Bor is a long-term preservative of wood against both mold and wood-destroying insects such as termites. The glossy latex paint coating will also help to protect the wood against water penetration in the event of a future plumbing leak, roof leak, or other water intrusion. Read about Tim-Bor at http://www.timborprofessional.com. 10. Clean and Disinfect HVAC Ducts. If there has been a mold problem inside a building, its heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) ducts are likely to be contaminated with elevated levels of airborne mold spores and mold growth. Clean and disinfect HVAC ducts with these procedures: (a) hire an experienced air duct cleaning company to do thorough HVAC duct cleaning; (b) after duct cleaning, do a second ozone treatment with at least four to eight hours of high output ozone treatment into the return air duct to get mold-killing ozone everywhere in the HVAC system and throughout the entire building; and (c) after ozone treatment, use a fogging machine to fog thoroughly the HVAC ducts with Sporicidin Disinfectant Solution, one of the few fungicides approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for use inside air ducts. For more information on how to do perfect mold removal, email mold experts Phillip and Divine Fry phil@moldnspector.com or phone Mr. Fry Toll-Free 1-866-300-1616, or Phillip's cell phone # 1-480-310-7970, or visit their websites Mold Experts and Certified Mold Inspectors.

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