Powerful Mold Remediation Services in Northern Kentucky

What Is Mold?

There is lots of information about the risks of mold exposure in the news these days, but what exactly is mold? A mold is a form of fungi. We eat some fungi, such as certain species of mushrooms or the yeast used to make bread rise. Some molds are even utilized for medicines, such as the mold used to create penicillin, an antibiotic. However, certain other varieties of mold can be damaging to human health and cause debilitating symptoms.

Where Is Mold Found?

Mold can be found indoors and outdoors in a variety of forms. Mold thrives in moist, darkly-lit environments. It is commonly found inside old houses, cellars, bathrooms, and basements. Mold is also common in other locations where there’s a leaky roof, leaking windows, water leaks, or occasional flooding. Chaetomium, Cladosporium, Aspergillus, Penicillium, and Stachybotrys—more commonly known as back mold—are just some of the molds that are regularly found in people’s homes and businesses.

Can Mold Cause Health Problems?

Due to their small size and light weight, mold spores can travel everywhere. Mold particles are easily inhaled by anyone in the proximity once they are floating in the air. Inhaling any type of mold spore is unhealthy, but molds create toxins known as mycotoxins, which commonly cause a range of health problems.

Mold-related sickness does not affect everyone who is exposed to it. Some people are more vulnerable than others, such as older people, babies and toddlers, anyone who suffers from respiratory illnesses like asthma, and people with immune-related disorders. If you have a mold problem in your home or business, everyone, including fit young adults is at risk. Mold can even make your pets sick!

How Do I Know If Mold Is Present In My Home? 

Very often, mold can be seen growing in damp places. It can also be identified by a musty smell, condensation on the walls or ceilings, or increased allergy symptoms in the residents or staff living or working in the building.

The symptoms of health problems caused by mold are wide-ranging and include:

• Sore throats
• Headaches
• Breathing issues
• A runny nose or blocked nose
• Coughing and sneezing
• Sore and watery eyes
• Asthma-like symptoms in people not diagnosed with the disease
• Lung infections like bronchitis
• Sinus infections
• Skin problems
• Unexplained fatigue
• Lowered immune system

If you are experiencing symptoms of mold-related illnesses, you should consult your doctor. However, remember that any mold-related symptoms are likely to persist until the mold has been eradicated from your home.

What Is Mold Remediation?

The process of eliminating mold from your home or business and restoring any mold-related damage is known as mold remediation. It’s a specialized and delicate operation that must be carried out properly to avoid further exposure to potentially hazardous mold spores.

Mold can be removed and sterilized from some materials, such as metals and ceramics. However, other materials, such as drywall, wood, and carpets, cannot always be fully cleaned and often have to be replaced.

Mold treatment is often difficult because mold can grow in locations where it is not visible, such as inside your walls, beneath carpeting, above ceiling panels, in heating and air ducts, and similar spaces.

Finding all of the molds can be challenging, and if even a small amount is overlooked, it will continue to develop and spread. If this happens, soon you will have a fully-fledged mold problem to deal with again.

What Makes Mold Removal Difficult?

Mold removal is especially difficult since the process releases a large number of mold spores into the air, raising the potential of it spreading and causing mold-related sickness. This is one of the reasons it’s vital to hire a professional mold removal company like Jolly Cleaning and Restoration to do the job.

If you have any kind of mold-related illness or symptoms, you should never attempt to undertake mold remediation yourself. You could subject yourself to more mold and spores, which could seriously exacerbate your symptoms.

How Our Mold Removal Process Works

Step One: Contact us

If you have a mold problem, please contact us as soon as possible. We will arrange to visit your home or business and carry out tests to assess whether mold is present and, if so, how much of a mold problem you have.

Step Two: Mold Inspection and Testing

If mold is found, we need to find the source of the problem, calculate how widespread it is and devise a custom plan for mold removal. Following the creation of an action plan, our crew at Jolly Cleaning and Restoration can get straight to work.

Step Three: Mold Remediation

We are trained mold removal specialists, and we understand what it takes to get rid of the most harmful signs of mold.

It’s important always to use professionals for mold remediation as mold gets everywhere. It can enter your home through windows, doors, air conditioning vents, and even on clothing.

Step Four: Mold Prevention

After we have dealt with your mold problem, we will advise you what you need to do to avoid ever having the same issues again. Any moisture build-up on the walls or ceilings of your home or business can promote the growth of mold, so we can advise you of the steps you need to take to avoid that happening.

Mold Remediation Cost

The cost of removing mold will depend on the size of the home or business to be treated. Customer satisfaction is important to us so we always offer the best value possible.

About Jolly Cleaning And Restoration

We are a local firm proud to serve the community in Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky.

The Jolly team is pleased to offer reliable residential cleaning, mold removal, and restoration services to home and business owners throughout Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, and the surrounding areas.

Don’t Live With Dangerous Mold! Call the Expert Team at Jolly for Mold Remediation Services You Can Trust.

Call today and our friendly team will be happy to help.