Do you suspect mold presence in your living space?
Seek professional mold inspection/removal services today!
If you’ve been sensing a musty odor around your home, don’t ignore it. Just because you can’t see mold patches doesn’t mean that it’s not there. Perhaps the problem might be expanding in the carpet padding, or in your damp crawlspace beneath the floors. If not immediately addressed, mold can adversely affect your property structure and soon become a health hazard for you and your family.
How Mold Effects Your Health
Depending on whether your immune system is overactive or underpowered, mold can impact it in two ways. When an overactive immune system faces irritating proteins found in mold spores and filaments, they tend to freak out. Landing on the mucous membranes of nose, mouth, and eyes, the filaments cause coughing, sneezing, asthma attacks, and eye-watering.
When you leave the moldy space, these conditions may stop. But constant exposure to mold spores can make you sensitized to them, which means even the faintest traces of mold will trigger an aggressive responsive from your body. Those with pre-existing conditions like asthma may experience a worsened condition such as fungal asthma.
Moreover, if you recently had an organ transplant or went through chemotherapy, your immune system may have become underpowered. When this happens, the fungus will colonize the lungs, treating you as it would treat wood paneling or ceiling tiles. This is more often a problem in hospitals, however, not in homes. Also, studies suggest a strong correlation between mold exposure in infants and asthma as they get 3 years old.
How Mold Impacts Your Home
Mold requires one or more food sources to survive and grow. If you allow it, it will eat up your entire home. The cellulose in the paper backing on wallpaper, insulation, and drywall are the favorite food for some types of mold. Others love the adhesives used to bond carpets to their backing. Eventually, mold causes permanent damage to the carpet, wallpaper, and drywall it attacks, especially if you don’t detect the problem on time.
However, most types of mold only feed on the dirt and dust that collect on the damp surfaces of your home. In no time, they’ll make your indoor air look, feel, and smell bad. You may notice clusters of small black specks or spider web-like growths on wall. If your basement gets infested by white mold, it may find its way to the basement stairs. This can lead to slippery conditions on the stairs. In the worse-case scenarios, mold will go as far as to cause structural damage or rot wood.
Call for Mold Inspection/ Removal
Now that you know how troublesome mold can be, it’s time to get of rid of it as soon as you can. STOP of Edison, NJ is here to address all sorts of mold problems in your home. From inspection to remediation and sanitization of space, you can expect the most effective service. For emergency remediation, contact us today.
