Best Methods For Locating Mold In Homes

The importance of locating mold in homes cannot be overstated. Whenever a mold issue is suspected in the home, it is time for the homeowner or tenant, to turn into a detective.

Mold detection skills all boil down to the main factor, and that is, determining the location of the water source. Water is the key to mold in homes, or any occupied building, and this is the reason why the homeowner must have sharp senses and water detection skills.

Usually one can accumulate a great deal of information, from the very beginning, by using just the nose and the eyes. By far the best tool for mold detection will be the nose. The nose will definitely have it as mold is a living, breathing organism, that has zero methods for camouflaging itself. Yet there are situations where mold can be hard to locate.

Some of the best techniques and methods for locating mold in homes are to think of the growth as a vegetable plant. Mold can be challenging to discover, because the main body of the mold organism plant, grows under the surface, of what it is actually feeding upon.

This substrate can be anything from wood, porcelain, concrete, food, damp areas, or anything else that has water and warmth, mingled together. The challenge that befalls homeowners and other mold remediators is that mold plants are only visible if enough accumulated numbers have been grouped together.

The numbers it takes for the naked eye to see without the help of magnification, are in the millions! It’s best to think of mold in homes, on a substrate, with the analogy of a tomato plant, in the garden.

Now tomato plants are in no way harmful to any human, normally, and many think that tomatoes are a wonderful source of nutrition! Yet tomato plants are a great example of what mold growth looks like when there is mold in the interior of a home.

Now as the tomato plant grows, it shoots forth roots, all throughout and underneath the soil. As an example, the roots of the mold plant, is growing and living on the backing of the carpet or gypsum board.

Mold Roots Run Deep In American Substrates

Mold in the homes of American residences has been an issue for centuries and only has come to the forefront of the health issue recently. The mold roots, although in no way long, or as massive, as the roots of a tomato plant, share the same characteristics of searching for places to penetrate.

After the mold has penetrated the substrate, a foothold in the substrate has been achieved, and the search for food has begun. The tomato plant for example, is a great example as the vegetable that is above ground and visible and tasty; akin to mold on the surface of the substrate. Think of the tomatoes on the plant just as you would think of the fruit of the mold spores in the home.

It does not matter if one can see only the fruit and the green stalk of the tomato plant, as there is still an active growing and vibrant tomato plant under the ground, unseen to the eye. This is the same with mold and the invisible portion of the mold organism that makes up over 80% of the entire toxic breeding organism.

The top part of the mold which is what many people are familiar with is actually the fruit body of the seeds of the mold. One interesting fact about mold is: on a head of a pen 10,000 spores can easily fit! This makes the mold growth hard to locate in the home.

The best way to locate and eradicate the mold in homes issue is to find the water.

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