Mold Remediation in Boynton Beach: A Comprehensive Guide

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Mold Remediation in Boynton Beach: A Comprehensive Guide

Mold is a common issue faced by homeowners and businesses in Boynton Beach due to the region's high humidity and tropical climate. It not only damages property but can also pose health risks. To shed light on this critical concern, this comprehensive guide will delve into mold remediation in Boynton Beach, providing statistics, insights, and citations to help you understand the scope of the problem and the solutions available.

The Main Causes of Mold in Boynton Beach

Humidity Levels: According to the South Florida Water Management District, South Florida's humidity levels often exceed 70%, creating an ideal environment for mold growth.

Rainfall: Boynton Beach and the surrounding region receives an annual average of 60-70 inches of rainfall, leading to frequent water intrusion and mold issues. 

The SERVPRO Mold Remediation Process starts with a solid understanding of mold and mold growth and the training and expertise to remediate mold in your home or business.

• Inspection and Assessment: A thorough inspection and assessment of the affected property is performed to identify the extent of the mold problem. 
• Containment: To prevent further contamination, containment barriers are established using plastic sheeting and negative air pressure machines. 
• Mold Removal: Mold is physically removed and treated using specialized techniques and EPA-approved biocides. 
• Drying and Dehumidification: Proper drying and dehumidification are crucial to preventing mold return. 
• Testing and Clearance: Post-remediation testing is performed to ensure that mold levels are back to acceptable levels.

There are preventative measures you can take to prevent mold from forming. Ensuring proper ventilation will held reduce indoor humidity levels making them it less susceptible to mold growth. Routine inspections and maintenance can catch moisture issues early, preventing mold infestations.

The Importance of Professional Mold Remediation

Mold remediation companies in South Florida must adhere to state regulations, ensuring safe and effective mold removal. All SERVPRO of Boynton Beach technicians are certified AMRT - Applied Microbial Remediation Technicians. These certifications are crucial when working with professionals because they can help ensure that mold damage is properly documented for insurance claims. 

Mold remediation is a critical issue in South Florida, given its climate and environmental factors. Mold growth can have serious health implications and can damage properties. Understanding the process of mold remediation and the importance of professional assistance is essential for Boynton Beach residents and businesses to ensure safe and effective mold removal.

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2/15/2019 (Permalink)

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Remediation for Mold Behind Drywall in Your Boynton Beach Home

There are times when disasters strike your Boynton Beach home in a way that is impossible to ignore. Unfortunately, not all of the threats that your home faces are so blatant and noticeable. Often situations like mold and microbial growth can begin and persist out of sight where dampness and moisture occurs. Identifying this threat requires some basic knowledge about mold growth, but removing this organism requires the skill and expertise of certified remediation specialists for several reasons.

One of the more troubling aspects of a microbial growth in your Boynton Beach home is how many owners would choose to forego mold remediation. Instead, these homeowners opt to attempt DIY removal techniques which only scratch at the surface of the problem. More specifically, in a situation where you cannot see the active colony, DIY remediation becomes hazardous and destructive. Our SERVPRO remediation specialists can identify the presence of mold and determine its spread, allowing us to contain the organism as our team removes this damaging presence from your property.

Often drywall affected by mold growth requires removal. Much like water damages, the sheetrock composition of drywall can erode and degrade quickly while hosting a mold colony. The concern with removal is an assurance that all of the mold growth has gotten removed and none remains to continue to spread and thrive in wall cavities. We use controlled demolition techniques to remove only the areas that require it, allowing the reconstruction from our contractors to be a seamless transition to follow our remediation.

Drywall that does not require removal gets sprayed with our antimicrobial solution to make the material uninhabitable to spores in the affected area. Mold growth can cause health effects for those in your home exposed to the colony, so contacting our SERVPRO professionals quickly can limit this exposure and subsequent damages to the property.

From fast remediation and prevention through reconstruction and restoration, our SERVPRO of Boynton Beach specialists can help whenever you discover mold growth in your home. For a thorough inspection or to reach our rapid response team, give us a call today at (561) 413-9754.

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Let Our Crew Assist You When A Mold Infestation Has Taken Over Your Home In Boynton Beach

1/2/2019 (Permalink)

Mold and mildew can cause different problems to occur within your home, but we have the answers you need.

Mold Damage Is A Nightmare For Many Homeowners In Boynton Beach

When your Boynton Beach home suffers damage, thoughts about the loss experienced center around replacing the items, their cost, the inconvenience imposed by their absence, and even possible health effects by either their loss or the presence of damaged items.

SERVPRO technicians understand that your home needs an experienced team of specialists when a problem involves mold damage in Boynton Beach. We realize that you want the problem fixed and to know that your home is once again safe, “Like it never even happened.” Our training involves several methods to rid your home and many types of belongings of mold and mildew.

We use these methods when we remove damaged sections of housing materials. These include negative air chambers constructed of heavy gauge plastic, tubing, and air scrubbers. This kind of setup protects your home from spores and other things that can contaminate your home.

Another method involves scraping of materials that mold growth covers and getting these cleaned up. We scrape away the majority of the growth and then wipe everything down with clean water, continually rinsing out our sponges and cloths.

Dry ice pellets in our blasting equipment handle small spaces like attics and crawlspaces. Instead of manually scraping these areas free of mold and mildew, dry ice pellets peel the layers of microbes away and leave only clean materials afterward. The dry ice simply dissolves into CO2 when it reaches room temperature. This is the same as the air you exhale, so the process is entirely safe.

After we remove mold, we use vacuums with HEPA filters to remove the leftover spores and mold from the areas remediated. We clean everything up thoroughly and also treat those areas with antifungal agents that, when dry, prevent any regrowth in the treated sections.

SERVPRO of Boynton Beach wants to help you recover your home after mold tries to move in and take over. We use different ways to get things back under your control and provide you with useful information to help prevent future problems with mold damage. Mold and mildew can cause different problems to occur within your home, but we have the answers you need. Call our crew at (561) 413-9754, so we can help you.

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Cracking the Mold Damage in a Boynton Home Code

10/21/2018 (Permalink)

When leaks are allowed to continue for a long time, mold can develop in your home. Call SERVPRO for mitigation services.

How to Avoid Serious Effects of Mold Damage in Boynton

While odors and discoloration of surfaces are the two most disconcerting aspects of mold damage, infestations can cause other serious problems. For example, when left unaddressed for a long time, the hyphae can grow deep into organic materials such as wood compromising their strength. If such wood forms part of the structure's framing, a long-term infestation can lead to structural integrity issues in your Boynton home. Exposure to a moldy environment for a long time can also lead to some health problems.
 
Dealing with mold damage in Boynton before it develops fully is the best way to avoid serious problems. Actions like fixing leaks immediately after detection, and drying the property thoroughly when there is water intrusion help. However, severe mold infestations mostly originate in hidden spaces such as wall cavities or attics where it takes time before the early signs can be detected. When you suspect mold infestation, our SERVPRO technicians can help inspect your entire structure including the hidden spaces nipping the problem at the bud.
 
Mold can turn to a nagging problem that you have to deal with repeatedly if you fail to fix the root of the problem. Luckily, excess moisture fuels most mold infestations so locating the moisture source, or drying the property helps guarantee long-term results. If it is a case of flooding, extracting the water and removing porous materials should be enough. However, in case of a plumbing leak or other situations such as water leaching into the property from the ground, a lot more needs to be done.
 
Cleaning up residues from the mold growth is essential. Although mold spores are omnipresent allowing growth to happen anywhere the conditions are right, removing the residues helps ensure they do not spread to areas such as air ducts where they can cause long-term problems. Our SERVPRO technicians HEPA vacuum, or damp wipe the affected surfaces. When cleaning, we start from the top of the structure moving to the bottom because spores settle downward.
 
Taking the right action can help prevent long-term mold problems. Call SERVPRO of Boynton Beach at (561) 413-9754 to assist. We're Faster To Any Size Disaster.

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Avoiding Mold Growth in Your Boynton Beach Home

8/12/2018 (Permalink)

Finding mold on the walls of your home can be something that causes panic. Call us at SERVPRO to quickly come out and remediate the damage.

SERVPRO Technicians Understand That Many Factors can Lead to Mold Damage in a Residence

While it might seem like common knowledge that mold growth in your Boynton Beach home could be problematic for the house and its occupants, many homeowners drag their feet on taking care of the problem when they discover it in their homes. One thing that is certain, no mold growth goes away on its own.

Apart from the potential health effects that you could experience due to mold damages in your Boynton Beach residence, the house itself is also at risk. This organism breaks down organic material as it grows and thrives, eating through vital construction materials used throughout your residence. There are some ways to avoid its growth altogether, and these are helpful in preventing this damaging presence in your house.

Moisture plays a vital role in the colonization of mold spores. It is why our SERVPRO professionals look to isolate and repair the source of moisture and dampness when we get dispatched to a remediation project. Lingering and persistent dampness is a food source for naturally occurring microscopic mold spores, allowing them to seat into organic materials in the area and begin to spread.

There are areas of your home that get used less than others, such as your attic space. Roof damages from storms passing through the area can allow for moisture leeching into this space above the ceiling. If the moisture does not get resolved, it can allow for microbial growth in as little as three days. Regular inspections throughout these less used areas of your home can help you to identify problems before they get out of control.

This inspection is another one of the services that our SERVPRO team can offer, helping to provide you with some assurance that mold colonization has not occurred in your home. Furthermore, our technicians can identify potential risks and hazards, preventing a colony from forming by restoring water damages as they get discovered.

It might not be easy to think of mold growth in your home, but it is something that must get addressed as quickly as possible. With the risks to both the occupants of the house and the building itself, trust in the rapid response of our SERVPRO of Boynton Beach remediation technicians. You can reach our team 24/7 by calling (561) 413-9754.

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Steps In Remediation Of Mold Damage In Boynton Beach

6/28/2018 (Permalink)

As small in size as individual mold particles come, the presence of mold can still cause problems anywhere inside a residence.

Steps In Remediation Of Mold Damage

As small in size as individual mold particles come, the presence of mold can still cause problems anywhere inside a Boynton Beach residence. Porous materials are particularly vulnerable, even when their components come from non-cellulose sources. This includes concrete and stone because these building materials often contain a multitude of cracks, grooves, and other locations where microbes can hide.

Protecting your house in Boynton Beach from mold damage requires that you regain and continue to maintain control of the environment inside your property. This invasive microorganism requires moist conditions and a food source. While an absence of cellulose fibers may slow its growth down considerably, dust and other debris can provide mold with enough materials to sustain it.

SERVPRO provides mold damage remediation that involves several different steps which together make your home “Like it never even happened.” Each of these steps strengthens the other methods we use and helps keep mold and other microbes like mildew from returning later.

Containing the Area
We set up plastic sheeting to make close off the areas where the mold damage exists. We use the enclosure and powerful air movers to create negative pressure which pushes microbes, spores, and any dust outside your home. As we bag up sections of drywall, paneling, and other materials that contain mold, dust can become quite substantial.

Cleaning the Air
We clean the air in your home near the area we find mold in to help eliminate spores that already found their way into uncontaminated places. Air scrubbers come with HEPA filters that remove spores and microbes from the air.

Treating the Area
We use antimicrobial agents to help keep mold from coming back. These agents are safe around children, pets, and plants once dry. They also dry clear, and without any visible changes to the areas, we apply them.

Lowering Humidity to a Normal Range
Getting rid of excess moisture inside your home often means tracking down its source. Some residential properties contain more than one of these problem areas. SERVPRO technicians use hygrometers to locate these areas. Only then can we stop the unwanted moisture from coming into your home's living space.

SERVPRO of Boynton Beach wants to help your family live in a home free of mold damage and the health effects an infestation can sometimes cause. Contact us today at (561) 413-9754 if your home contains a microbial infestation.

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Important Facts To Help You Counter Mold Damage In Boynton Beach

5/8/2018 (Permalink)

Mold damage results typically when moisture is present in your structure, and you fail to remove it as soon as possible.

Important Facts About Mold Damage

Mold damage results typically when moisture is present in your structure, and you fail to remove it as soon as possible. Since the mold spores are present almost everywhere, when they settle on water, it is a matter of time before the mold grows. In case of a water intrusion, drying your Boynton Beach facility as well as removing all the water-damaged contents should be among the first steps when restoring your property.

Sometimes it is possible to spot mold damage in your Boynton Beach home, while in some cases it can hide behind your cushions, carpets, and walls. As far as there was a water intrusion incident in your property and you are not in a position to dry your home within 24 -48 hours, we advise you to work with qualified professionals like our SERVPRO team to analyze the extent of the moisture problem.

Exposure to areas with mold contamination can cause health effects, and that means cleaning and disinfection should start immediately. There are some safety standards which our SERVPRO team observes when working for you to stay protected against hazards. We wear a full-face, or half-face respirator to help us safely breathe in a moldy site, wear protective gloves and goggles to protect our skin and eyes respectively.

Our SERVPRO technicians understand there is a risk of spreading the spores to uncontaminated areas and as a result employ containment measures. For instance, we can shut down the HVAC system, use plastic sheeting to isolate the site, as well as generate negative pressure to prevent the mold spores from moving to a clean area.

We use detergents with antimicrobial properties to clean moldy materials where necessary, in cases where it is not possible to do the cleaning, we remove the content and seal them in plastic bags. Improving the quality of air after removing and cleaning the mold is necessary as we achieve that through deodorization.

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Professional Mold Remediation For Your Boynton Beach Home

3/27/2018 (Permalink)

Mold damage in your Boynton Beach home might not always be clear and easy to see.

Professional Mold Remediation

A humid atmosphere is something that every Boynton Beach homeowner has to contend with on an almost daily basis. The unfortunate side to this natural state, apart from the uncomfortableness that often results from it, is the potential threats that it could cause your house. While there is something to be said regarding humid conditions and their effects on wood structures over time, there is also the lingering possibility of mold growth in excessively damp or wet areas of your house.

Mold damage in your Boynton Beach home might not always be clear and easy to see. Sometimes you have to identify its presence by signals like a musty scent in some areas of your house rather than seeing physical mold growing on surfaces. For some time, spores grow in colonies beneath the organic surfaces they seat into, leaving you none the wiser about their presence until you catch the familiar musty scent or the organisms spread out and grow large enough to push out onto the surface where you can see.

You indeed would not be alone in thinking that the discovery of mold in your home is something that you can contend with on your own instead of contacting professional services like our SERVPRO team. In fact, there are many resources on the internet to suggest DIY methods of mold removal, but for the most part, these methods of removal are vastly ineffective. The reason is, most people do not have the appropriate tools or expertise to reach the whole of the organism (the entire hyphae) and therefore, do not remove the mold. All that has gotten accomplished is the destruction of surface mold and likely the spread of spores to new areas of your home.

Our SERVPRO IICRC certified remediation specialists have the tools and expertise to get the job done correctly. From sectioning off the affected area and shutting off air circulation to prevent the spread of mold to new areas of your house, our team gets to work quickly on removing the colonies using our equipment that can deeply penetrate organic surfaces and remove the entire hyphae.

When you discover mold inside of your home, it is something that should get dealt with promptly. Call our experienced SERVPRO of Boynton Beach mold remediation specialists. We can be reached anytime at (561) 413-9754.

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Taking Care Of Mold Damage To Your Boynton Beach Home

2/5/2018 (Permalink)

With higher temperatures and excessive moisture in the air, fungal spores have an opportunity to seat into materials and surfaces of your home.

Taking Care Of Mold Damage

Humidity can be a hard thing to have to deal with every day, but that is often the case for coastal communities like Boynton Beach. While there are innumerable ways to “beat the heat” as they say, failing to regulate this humidity in your home can have worse effects than only making you uncomfortable. With higher temperatures and excessive moisture in the air, fungal spores have an opportunity to seat into organic materials and surfaces of your home and start forming colonies.

Many people believe that mold damage in their Boynton Beach home is not something that requires immediate attention. Since so many houses in the area combat excessive moisture and higher temperatures for most of the year, the potential resulting fungal growth is believed to be non-threatening. As you might have already known, mold can cause health effects to you and your family and as such, should be handled efficiently and thoroughly.

Professional remediation services are your best bet to restore the damage that mold has caused to your house and to prevent it from occurring so readily in the future. SERVPRO technicians get trained to the high standards set in place by the IICRC to be certified remediation specialists in both residential and commercial settings. Our tools and experience blend into an effective strategy for mold removal and damage restoration process.

Isolation of the affected area is a top priority for our technicians on site. Throughout the remediation process, circulation of air through AC units or fans stops to allow equipment like negative air chambers positioned around the colonies to efficiently prevent the spread of mold spores to new areas. Scrubbers fitted with filters clean deeply into mold damaged surfaces to remove the entire organism. In some cases of widespread damage to structural components, sanding equipment gets used to remove thin layers of affected material.

While this is just a short overview of the remediation process, it can show the great lengths that our experienced professionals go to prevent damage from getting worse while working to restore what has already been affected. If you are dealing with mold, you should reach out to SERVPRO of Boynton Beach. Our certified remediation specialists can be reached anytime at (561) 413-9754.

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Why do you need professional help to get rid of mold damage to your Boynton Beach property?

12/14/2017 (Permalink)

Call SERVPRO at the first sign of mold damage for professional mold remediation services.

SERVPRO Professionals are Trained to Properly and Thoroughly Remediate Mold Damage

Mold can be difficult to control if you are not careful. Once the spores germinate in a humid place in your Boynton Beach home, they can form colonies and spread quickly. It is tempting to get rid of mold on your own, but it is never a good idea. Trying to clean mold without proper equipment and precautions can enable them to spread to unaffected areas of your home and may cause health effects as well.

Here at SERVPRO, we use state-of-the-art technology and equipment to clean and remove mold from your Boynton Beach home. Our skilled and certified technicians have years of experience in the mold remediation process. They work in close association with the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) professionals and Indoor Environmental Professionals (IEP) to ensure your safety during and after the process.

The IAQ and IEPs perform the initial testing and provide a written protocol for the remediation process. Once the protocol is ready, our technicians work tirelessly to execute it in the shortest possible time.

It is essential to identify and document each mold damage incident so that a targeted approach can be designed for remediation. It is a job that requires experience and expertise that an average homeowner seldom has. SERVPRO professionals are IICRC certified and have the necessary skills to execute these cleaning protocols. We use a multi-stage approach to confine and clean the affected area and prevent the mold spores from spreading.

Furthermore, mold remediation is not complete until the underlying cause is treated. SERVPRO technicians help you to get rid of the residual moisture from your property so that the underlying reason for the mold damage is eliminated. We also use air scrubbers and HEPA filters to remove spores and dust from the air to prevent recurring damage.

Mold remediation is a complicated process that should be done by professionals. Make sure that you call SERVPRO of Boynton Beach at (561) 413-9754 as soon as you detect mold in your home. Avoid cleaning mold on your own and wait for the professionals to arrive.  

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