Mold and Water Damage in your Bridgewater Home

4/4/2020 (Permalink)

“Like it never even happened.”

Dealing with Mold and Water Damage in Bridgewater

For homeowners experiencing a water damage problem, few things can be more terrifying than the phrase "mold issues." In addition to expensive repairs, it conjures up imagines of potentially serious health effects.

But if your water damage problem includes mold in Bridgewater, there's no reason to worry. SERVPRO can help you get a handle on whatever you're facing, and they know how to come up with a plan to eliminate it.

Specifically, SERVPRO techs do that by helping you understand what mold is, how it grows and spreads, and the specific chemicals it contains that can cause health effects. What follows covers some of the basics.

Mold typically starts out as a spore. Spores work like seeds—a typical mold infestation can include thousands of tiny spores, and these spores are set free when they are disturbed, usually by airflow.

Once loose, they travel until gravity causes them to settle. Whether they grow or not depends on the presence of food, temperature, and moisture, but they will swell when they absorb water.

The problem with this is that mold spores can grow into whatever is beneath the spores, and they can also spread beyond the initial area they occupy. And mold spores feed on many of the materials in your home, which is why SERVPRO experts focus on controlling their growth.

There are two chemicals behind these problems: mycotoxins and microbial volatile organic compounds (mVOCs). Mycotoxins are basically fungal toxins that can cause a toxic reaction in humans, while mVOCs give off a musty odor that indicates some level of mold contamination along with the possibility of active mold growth.

As nasty as these things sound, there's an easy solution. Call SERVPRO of The Bridgewaters at (508) 697-5439 at any time, day or night, to solve the problem quickly and completely.

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