Mold Damage Recovery

Indoor air quality has become an integral aspect of disaster recovery. With improper structural drying after a flood or other water damage event, saturated building elements such as framing, drywall and various contents items can become vulnerable to fungal growth thereby causing serious damage to residential and commercial property.

What is Mold?

Mold is fungi that can be found both indoors and outdoors. No one knows how many species of fungi exist but estimates range from tens of thousands to perhaps three hundred thousand or more. Mold grows best in warm, damp, and humid conditions, and spread and reproduce by making spores. Mold spores can survive harsh environmental conditions, such as dry conditions, that do not support normal mold growth.

How dose mold affect people?

Some people are more sensitive to mold then others. For these people, exposure to mold can cause symptoms such as nasal stuffiness, eye irritation, wheezing, or skin irritation. Some people, such as those with serious allergies to mold, may have more severe reactions. Severe reactions may occur among workers exposed to large amounts of mold in occupational settings, such as farmers working around moldy hay. Severe reactions may include fever and shortness of breath. Some people with chronic lung illnesses, such as obstructive lung disease, may develop mold infections in their lungs.

Getting Rid of Mold

If you’re faced with a mold problem, United Drying is fully prepared to perform specialized mold remediation services. Our mold remediation staff obtains specialized training through programs offered by the American Indoor Air Quality Council and the Indoor Air Quality Association. Whether your mold contamination affects a single room or an entire commercial complex, United Drying has the experience and capacity to restore your valued property.

You can effectively manage this secondary damage by immediately turning your water loss over to United Drying Inc. Our emergency water damage technicians are trained and knowledgeable in the methodologies set forth by the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) and the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC). United Drying has the equipment, manpower and expertise to respond to your emergency to help you avoid a mold disaster.

Dry Ice Blasting

Cold Jet Dry Ice Blasting cleans even the hardest to reach areas fast and without the added headaches of sanding, scaping, harmful checmicals and encapsulation. It gets in where conventional methods can’t, completely removing mold-contaminated areas in the wood, then sublimating completely into the atmosphere, eliminating secondary waste stream issues.