| There is a lot more thought being given today about | | | | A lot of these residents were not able to rescue their |
| the damage that mold can cause in a home, due to | | | | homes or any of their belongings at all! By the time |
| the fact that more and more Americans are dealing | | | | water levels receded enough to allow the residents |
| with this problem. Mold can grow where moisture has | | | | access, the water had been standing for so long that it |
| been for long periods of time. Some surfaces are a lot | | | | was impossible to recover anything left behind. |
| more vulnerable to mold growth than others are. When | | | | For those homeowners who endured less damage |
| surfaces like wood, cloth, sheetrock, and carpeting | | | | and only had a few inches of water, most of their |
| become wet, they become the perfect breeding | | | | homes were saved. If pursued, it was an ambitious |
| ground for the development of mold and mildew. | | | | task. They had to restore destroyed flooring, |
| There are many homes and businesses that have | | | | sheetrock and wood. The homeowners had to rid their |
| sustained substantial water damage due to flooding | | | | homes of mold as well. Special clothing and masks |
| caused by either a bad plumbing job or Mother Nature | | | | were worn at all times to protect these people from |
| herself. These floods can cause a lot of damage just | | | | specific and dangerous types of mold. |
| due to the fact that your home or business has | | | | When flooding happens in a home on a smaller scale, |
| suffered water damage. This damage is even more | | | | like situations caused by plumbing breaks, the damage |
| severe when some of the surfaces in a building are | | | | that is suffered is usually not be nearly as bad. If done |
| left to dry without proper ventilation or demolition thus | | | | quickly and efficiently, the walls and flooring can be |
| causing the advancement of mold and mildew. | | | | saved. Mold growth is delayed if all the areas affected |
| In conditions where excessive flooding has occurred | | | | by water are dried out thoroughly. Many times |
| from a catastrophic event like hurricanes, tornadoes, | | | | homeowners can clean up minor flooding themselves |
| and/or heavy rainfall, streams and rivers overflow their | | | | for the situations listed above. In addition, it is important |
| banks. There have been many times where the | | | | that if a surface develops any kind of mold, it be dealt |
| ground floor of a home can get covered in water | | | | with by using chlorine bleach if possible or by removing |
| levels ranging anywhere from a couple of inches to | | | | the affected surface area altogether. Mold on |
| numerous feet. In situations like the Hurricane Katrina | | | | surfaces like sheetrock or wood will sometimes need |
| flooded residences, homes had been inundated by so | | | | removal because it is hard to keep the mold from |
| much water that even the second floors had | | | | coming back and eventually spreading to an even |
| substantial water damage. | | | | larger area once it's on sheetrock or wood. |