Mold Treatment

Once you have found mold to be growing in your home, the damage is pretty much done. You will have to immediately address the situation to make sure that it does not grow any further. The key to mold treatment is containing it as you do not want the spores to spread and continue to reproduce in other areas of your home.

The first thing you are going to have to do in treating mold is to assess how much damage is actually been done. You should easily be able to handle an area ten square feet. If you find the area to be larger than this, you may want to bring a professional and ensure that it gets handled properly.

Now that you have identified the area, make sure the you arm yourself with protective gear. You will need to get a pair of goggles, rubber gloves and breathing protection. If you are working in a large area that has been contaminated by molds, you should wear an OSHA mask.

The next step in mold treatment is that you’ll want to do is contain that area of your house. Any form of ventilation will need to be sealed to ensure that the mold does not spread while cleaning up. The moment you disturb the molds, the spores will fly through the air and this will ensure that they do not get into your ventilation system.

If you have any temporary fixtures, you will want to take them out in the immediate area. You will also want to cover up all of the other areas before disturbing the mold spores. If you do not do this, the mold spores may attach themselves to these areas as you start cleaning process.

If the molds are growing on movable items around something that can be displaced, bagged them up and immediately throw them away. If it is on a hard surface, you want to follow the directions exactly as listed:

Wash the area with a mild detergent solution and allow to dry. Make up a solution of one quarter cup bleach to 1 quart of water and then wash down the area. Wait approximately 20 minutes and repeat the process and then do it again after another 20 minutes. Make sure you are making up a fresh solution each time. Finally, you want to wash the area with a borate-based detergent solution. Do not rinse after this application. You can find a borate-based detergent by checking the label, as it will clearly be listed.

Once you have done these mold treatment steps, you want to clean the entire area as mold spores may have gotten into the air and attached themselves somewhere else. First, bagged up the cover they used to shield the area before treating the identified mold zone and dispose of it. Then proceed with cleaning the rest of the area. You will now have to constantly monitor the space and make sure you repeat the whole process if and when the mold returns.