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Removing Mold From Your Home

Tue 11 Aug 2009 - 21:47

Removing Mold From Your Home
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Emily_E]Emily E

Removing mold from your home yourself would greatly reduce removal costs. Home owners often find that hiring an expert to remove mold from their home to be an expensive proposition. But, if you follow the instructions below, you can remove the mold yourself.

The first step is to eliminate any moisture issues that you might have. Check to make sure that none of your pipes are leaking; if they are, fix them. Ensure that your house is sealed tightly. Check the roof for possible repairs that need to be made. Confirm that any area that might allow moisture and water to enter your home is sealed.

Seal off the first room where you will commence mold removal. By sealing the room the mold will stay there and you will protect the other rooms in the house from the mold.

Mold can easily travel from room to room via air currents and could easily contaminate a room that does not have a problem. This is a very vital step in protecting the rest of your home from mold. Each affected area should be sealed off separately.

The areas that are to be cleansed should be damp when you are cleaning it. Wet mold does not travel as far as dry mold does. Keeping a spray bottle full of water handy is a good idea, just in case you need to spray down an area. Spray bottles can be bought for very little money at a discount store. Purchasing items at a discount will help keep your removal costs low.

Cleaning the affected areas is a two step procedure. First, cleanse the affected spots with regular detergent. Then cleanse the spot with a disinfectant, which should neutralize the mold entirely. Any furniture or porous materials that are infected with mold should probably be thrown out and replaced. It is too difficult to eradicate mold from them entirely. It is imperative that every spot of mold is eliminated. It only takes one little mold spore to create a colossal mold problem.

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