It Is BEST To Leave Dealing With Mold To Professionals

6/16/2016 (Permalink)

Mold and Mold Spores Can Spread Through Your HVAC Ducts

SERVPRO Technicians Will Treat Your Mold Before It Becomes Airborne

Downtown Chicago mold damage can cause your business a lot of expense and time. You need to take action as soon as you see the intrusion of water and of mold growing to lower your loss. You can get professional mold remediation from our professionals at SERVPRO. You will definitely need someone trained and experienced to handle these problems. If you disturb the mold yourself, it will become airborne, and it will spread throughout the area and into your HVAC ducts.

Remember that air samples from inside compared to air samples from outside will almost always have more mold than the air outdoors. This is true usually even if there is a small or minor exposure to mold in your commercial building, which is why you should not touch the mold. Small leaks, or water intrusion, plus high humidity, many times in basements or lower levels, are two of the most common problems for mold growth that is minor which we usually see. You will need to find the leaks for water intrusion. These can come from leaking windows, roof, pipes with excessive condensation or leaking pipes. You will need to search for and repair the leak as soon as you can since mold usually won't start to grow for about forty-eight hours, or a bit sooner. Using air conditioning effectively along with a dehumidifier will be needed to help with drying out the area after the mold has been cleaned. At SERVPRO, however, we have all of the professional equipment that is needed to take care of this as well. These two things can actually help to stop minor mold issues in the future, though.

There will be no single solution that will work for all cases of mold damage, but there are some easy prevention controls we have seen to be effective. These are cleaning and fixing gutters, directing surface water away from your building, using ventilation in areas of higher humidity such as basements and bathrooms, using air condition to keep levels of humidity low, using dehumidifiers in areas of high humidity, putting the dehumidifier away from drains in the floor and establishing a cleaning and disinfecting schedule for any areas that have greater exposure potential.

We will assess your situation as soon as you call us, and treat it individually as we do with all other cases so that we can find the solution that will work best for you and your business. We can handle your mold remediation with little to no downtime for your business as well, so you can avoid a total shutdown due to mold damage.

As soon as you suspect that you have mold damage in Downtown Chicago, get a hold of our technicians at SERVPRO of Evergreen Park/South Chicago City by calling them at (773) 227-3900. The sooner you do this, the better so that the mold growth does not spread.