Two of the most important things to remember about mold are often seen as defeatist by those who prefer a clean environment.
- No matter how thoroughly you disinfect your house, there will still be mold in it.
- Mold is a necessary part of the environment.
Mold is one of nature’s most efficient and effective garbage collection and decomposition systems. In some circumstances, even scavenger insects aren’t as good at getting rid of what needs to be hauled away.
Mold is hardy stuff, and it doesn’t respond to many of the kinds of cleaning average households can muster. It’s when mold starts to fester and emit spores that the potential for danger emerges. That’s usually past the point when you needed the services of an experienced plumber.
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Moisture
Like all fungi, mold in homes needs water to survive. Almost anything can be a source of water for a mold colony, whether it is growing on an exposed surface or deep in the cracks and crevices of a structure.
Water can come from the air in the form of vapor or humidity, it can condense on surfaces, or it can come from damage to plumbing. Moisture can even condense as a result of the difference in temperature between the water inside pipes or tanks and the outside air.
Structure
Consider the environment under your house. It’s impossible to get direct sunlight in there, so the temperature swings during the day are muted. It’s enclosed, so heat doesn’t escape as quickly at night. It’s a relatively stable temperature with little to no wind or rainfall. If there were even a steady trickle of water as minimal as condensation from cool underground water forming on a metal pipe, it would be an ideal situation for a mold colony.
Now the question becomes who is going to find slab leaks or that colony first?
The Plumbing Experts
What a Rancho Cucamonga plumber does better than anyone else is draw connections between your water, sewer, hot water and appliances and the effects they may be having on your home and surrounding property. An experienced plumber will be able to determine if there are pipes in the vicinity of a mold colony. They will also be able to able to test them to see if they are having a gradual effect on growth.
If mold is growing and expanding, plumbers are among the few experts who will be able to tell you why. Further, they can recommend ways to cut off the environmental stimulus and the water supplies for nuisance mold outbreaks so that you can safeguard your home or business against them in the future.
Naturally, it’s always better to find and repair slow or catastrophic leaks as soon as possible, since mold isn’t the only problem caused by faulty or leaky plumbing. By the time a mold problem becomes noticeable, there is a moderate likelihood the leak may have caused other damage and/or compromised your plumbing or sewage system. This is not a trivial matter as backups or pressure problems can cause all manner of potentially dangerous issues even in a residential home.
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