Mold: Is It Making You Sick?

Professional, expert mold remediation is your only solution.

Water damage caused by burst hoses and pipes, sump pump failure, sewage backup, overflowing toilets and bathtubs, water heater leaks, and faulty appliances is costly, and more importantly, it can cause health risks because of mold growth.

Molds are a fungus that develops in the structure of multicellular filaments called hyphal fragments. The perfect conditions for mold growth are damp, humid, and warm environments. Molds reproduce and spread by making spores. Mold is a derelict. It can survive dry conditions that do not typically support mold growth.

What do you do when you see mold on food? You throw it into the garbage can. Why? Because you know that mold can cause you to become sick. However, do you know how unhealthy it can make you?

Some people are highly sensitive to molds. Exposure to molds can result in a stuffy nose, red or itchy eyes or skin, irregular blood pressure, urinary problems, and wheezing symptoms, caused by water damage. Others with allergies to mold often experience more severe conditions, such as the development of and increased asthma attacks, fever, shortness of breath, respiratory infections, and coughing.

People with suppressed immune systems like cancer patients, those who received stem cell or organ transplants, and others taking medications that compromise the immune system are more likely to get mold infections.

Beyond the health risks, you may be at risk of property damage and tremendous financial losses, due to mold’s cousin - rot. In your home or building, rot can occur almost anywhere. The most commons places where rot develops is girders, sill plates, floor joists; basically, the entire structural system beneath your home.

Throughout your property, mold remediation is an intensive, exhaustive, and time-consuming process:

1. Find the Source
2. Contaminant Control
3. Establish Negative Air Pressure
4. Remove & Clean
5. Air Duct & HVAC System Cleaning
6. Post-Remediation Testing

The “DIY” (Do-It-Yourself) method is not useful, practical, or the correct treatment for mold remediation. Unless you have the technical expertise, education, knowledge, and leading-edge tools, equipment, and ability to perform post-remediation testing, it is unlikely that you will solve the problem.

What is the solution?

We-Restoration offers free estimates, prompt, and professional restoration services for your home or business. Mold remediation, fire and smoke damage, contaminated air ducts, and water and flood damage repairs are We-Restoration’s expertise.

We-Restoration, headquartered in Rockville, MD, provides unparalleled services to the regions of Northern Virginia, Washington DC, and Maryland. Credentialed by the Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC), We-Restoration maintains education, talents, capabilities, and technology to find the source, inspect, clean, and perform mold remediation. Additionally, the Better Business Bureau has determined that We-Restoration meets its accreditation standards.

When your emergency occurs, We-Restoration’s professional engineers are there to solve your crisis 24-hours a day, 7-days a week.

Do not wait, thinking about what to do. By then, it is too late. Contact We-Restoration by calling (888) 878-2726 or emailing at info@we-restoration.com.