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Nearly every home and office building have conditions that make the structure perfect for mold growth. From the products in the home to the perfect room temperatures, your home is ready to grow mold if you simply add the missing ingredient. The missing ingredient is water and, without it, you won’t have to worry about mold. This is why it’s so important to address water issues in your home at the first sign of problems. If you have a plumbing leak in your home, fix it immediately. If you have a window leak, siding leak, roof leak or flashing leak, get a contractor out to properly seal your home up and keep moisture where it belongs – outside of your home. 

Proper maintenance and addressing issues when they first appear will help prevent more costly repairs later. Keeping mold from growing is also important because mold can cause severe health problems. If you’re too late for preventative measures and you find mold in your home, what should you do?  The first step is getting an appropriate contractor out to stop the leak that’s allowing water into your home. Then it’s time to deal with mold. The home inspectors I’ve spoken with say that simply applying bleach to the area is not a satisfactory method (and can actually make the situation worse in many cases). Using this method might kill the surface mold but you also need to know that the hidden mold is killed — or the problem will still be present (just not visibly). 

There are different methods that mold mitigation companies use to kill mold. One company I have experience with here locally is PuroClean here in Johnson County Kansas. They came into one of my Overland Park client’s home to analyze a mold situation. They provided a bid, completed the remediation, did a re-test and the job was completed to both home seller and home buyer’s satisfaction and everyone came away feeling the mold situation had been properly addressed.

Posted by Jason A. Brown