Mold growth is something you don’t want to content with at your Virginia Beach, VA home. Living so close to the beach typically means a lot of wet bathing suits and towels lying around the house. If you usually have a lot of friends or family at your home to enjoy the beach, you have double the trouble.
Mold can be either inside or outside. Outside mold in the air can attach itself to your clothing, shoes, and pets and can be carried inside. Once the mold spores fall on places where there is excessive moisture, mold growth can develop. Common sources of moisture are leaky roofs, plumbing leaks, outdoor drainage issues, damp crawl spaces and basements, clothes dryer venting indoors, poor or improper ventilation of cooking and heating appliances and steam from showers or dishwashers, humidifiers, potted plants, and those beach clothes laying around inside your home in Virginia Beach, VA. These areas can lead to mold growth. Once mold spores land on a moist surface, they will begin to reproduce, and you will experience mold growth in those areas of your Virginia Beach, VA home.
There are several different ways to control mold growth inside your home in Virginia Beach, VA. Check your home periodically for any leaky pipes. Make sure you have a good ventilation system to remove steam from cooking and showering, vent your clothes dryer to the outside, fix any outdoor drainage issues you might have, hang wet clothes outside to dry or put them into the clothes dryer. Never leave them lying on the floor, or you may start to notice mold growth on your walls or flooring.
Virginia Beach, VA homeowners can handle small amounts of mold, but anything excessive should be left to professionals. Also, without professionals handling your mold growth, you may not be able to see all mold and only an environmental company has the necessary equipment to test for mold growth.
If you have any mold growth issues, call the team at Envirotex Environmental Services, and they will be glad to answer any questions you have about your home in Virginia Beach, VA.