Recognizing Mold: The Basics
If you have a mold growth in your home or business, one of the easiest (and most obvious) ways to detect it is to look for visual clues. Mold can cause many different shades of discoloration to walls, ceilings, carpets, and flooring. When your property has experienced flood damage and requires water removal it is easy to accidentally dismiss discoloration as a byproduct of water staining. This is not always the case. After cleaning up and drying out closely inspect impacted areas that you have self-treated. Is the discoloration green or black? Contact us immediately. Even if the stain is brown or yellow don’t take any chances. Finally, another indicator of mold infestation is odor. Mold has a very distinct smell, but after a flood, that smell is often mistaken as being related to dirty water. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevent (CDC) describes the mold smell as “musty, earthy, and/or foul”.