Many folks try to remove their mold problem on their own. They think they don’t have to bother to use a service for professional mold removal like Spectrum Cleaning and Restoration. Do It Yourself has taken a big strides in giving people easy access to information to do things on their own. All of this you can find on Google, as well as tons of video content on YouTube with DIY household ideas. If you’re reading this right now, I suspect you most likely already have mold problems in your home. So now you are looking to solve this with the right solution. You may need to save some cash and have a can-do attitude. But let me make this plain and simple, this isn’t like putting up a few bookshelves. Mold removal and remediation is a difficult, delicate, and often dirty job. It’s not as easy as you might think.
Here are 5 reasons you should not do most mold cleanups yourself.
1. You don’t know what you’re actually up against
You discover you have mold and mold is just mold, correct? Wrong, there are so many varieties of mold, many worse than others both health and destructive wise. Safe to say black mold is the worst one you can have on in your home or office. If there is any doubt as to what kind of mold you have, a professional mold remediation service like Spectrum Cleaning and Restoration will do tests and take samples to determine what you have. Based on the test results, you can then know exactly what you’re up against. Our testing team will go so far as to test areas that don’t seem to have any mold showing. This is to note areas where mold may not be visible yet, but the area is still contaminated and may need to be treated. These sections can be dealt with early on, stopping a large mold colony from spreading into a larger issue.
2. It’s a huge undertaking once you start
There’s no easy way to explain it but its true, once you start it needs to be thoroughly dealt with or it can be even more damaging. Mold is a tough, dirty and not an undertaking for the faint of heart. There are so issues to consider before even starting the clean up mold. First is research. How do you actually eliminate your mold? After you’ve watched a youtube videos and read some articles online, you’ll need to make a list of needed equipment. Masks, dehumidifiers, air filters and cleaning chemicals are only the beginning. You also need to know how to use them correctly. And that’s only if the videos you watched and what you read gave good and adequate info. What you thought would only be a few hours work turns into a full weekend job which then turns into several more weeks of when will this end. Think about what you could do wit this time you now wasted. Hiring the pros like Spectrum Cleaning and Restoration to do it from the start, will save yourself a so much time and aggravation.
3. Dangers to your health and well being
Eliminating the mold in your home or office is not just a big task. There’s so much more at stake. The last thing you want to be doing is to be breathing in mold all the time. When you cleanup mold, you greatly risk sending all those mold spores into the air which you breathe in. Therefore you breathe in even all that toxic substance, while most likely now spreading that mold growth to other areas of your home not already affected. When Spectrum Cleaning and Restoration work, they seal offf the work area and have the right equipment designed to capture mold spores from the air so they can’t spread. This is about your health, remeber what you are putting at stake.
Take a look at the following health issues you could be dealing with:
- Headaches and nausea
- Major sinus problems
- Fatigue
- Fungal infections
- Bronchitis
- Increased asthma
4. Wait, you’ve missed a mold spot!
Hard work will not be enough for effective mold removal. All the known DIY chemicals like borax, vinegar and even bleach won’t do what you think they will. These solutions are for surface cleaning only. They don’t do a deep clean. Our cleaning products that we use are guaranteed to effectively cleanse all affected areas. They kill all the mold spores which, in turn, lower the risk the mold will return. There is nothing more aggravating than scrubbing a huge mold colony to have it come back at a another time. What an expert knows is that some surfaces that can’t be cleaned – they have too many small pores and openings to clean out the mold. Instead, the local mold expert will remove these materials first, and only replace them with new ones once the mold is managed.
5. You’ve now made the mold problem worse
When you’re cleaning down mold you’re stirring the mold colonies spores. The spores then go airborne and are liable to land anywhere and everywhere. You’ll notice that you’ve cleaned an area just to find mold growing in spots that it never was before. You can then spread it everywhere and now you’re dealing with multiple mold colonies all over your home. It will take more time and effort now to remove it again. More time also means more cash spent on cleaning solutions masks, gloves, and other items. Before you realize it, you are back where you began. Best solution to this is to get it removed professionally by Spectrum Cleaning and Restoration.
