Mold and Water damage in your home

Drywall mold that has high mold contamination are a major source of allergens and possibly mycotoxins in the home. Drywall mold or black spots are generally due to water damage, high humidity, or a leak behind drywall. Allowed to go undetected or ignored can cause severe health problems and damage to a home or office.

Physical mold growth on drywall needs to be removed carefully, bagged and disposed of. Standard practice is to cut the moldy material away up to three feet from where the visible growth is. There’s no safe and truly effective way to both kill and clean up mold on surfaces like drywall. Effectively killing mold in drywall is virtually impossible. The difficulty isn’t necessarily that the surface mold can’t be killed, but that drywall is too porous to effectively kill the mold that has grown into and through the drywall substrate, thereby presenting a hazard. The safest measure will always be to remove the infected drywall, sometimes even up to three feet in all directions from the actual visible growth.

Once the removal of the effected drywall is done, you may find mold spores growing behind the wall. The worst thing you can do is to rebuild over the mold without properly killing the mold and preventing it from growing back. A sollution is applyed to the area that will kill and encapsulate the mold spores to prevent regrowth. (contact us if you have not done this before)

 

2)Water damage:

This is a very common problem in residencial homes. This problem will cause visual brown or yellowish stains on your ceiling or walls and may cause the existing drywall or plaster to bow or buckle.

Most problems are caused by plumbing leaks and ice daming on your roof. If these problems should arise, you should start by getting to the root of the problem and call a professional to fix the leak before calling a drywall professional.  If you have a visual bow or buckle in your ceiling this could mean that you have water trapped in the drywall or plaster. You should puncture the area with a sharp object and place a bucket under the damaged area to allow water to drain. This will take the stress off your ceiling and prevent further damage.

After the water has drained you should then call us or another professional who can handle the installation of the new drywall or plaster.