Hey guys, are you smelling mold? Can't see any mold, perhaps you're not feeling good?
Well in this video, I'm gonna show you some areas of your home that you need to
look and inspect. So let's get right into it.
One area is underneath the refrigerator? So many mold inspectors miss this area.
Come and check this one out right here.
What happens is there's a compressor behind there and often times
when people are sweeping their floor all of the debris, especially with pets they
get caught up inside there that compressor way back there heats up and
creates a moisture event which is a harboring area for mold growth.
Second area is dishwashers, underneath dishwashers same thing applies. When
you're sweeping the floor on a day-to-day basis
all of that debris gets caught up behind the dishwasher as well as a leaky
dishwasher. If the discharge hose is leaking
it will cause moisture and oftentimes we will see mold behind the dishwasher and the
cabinet. The third area for mold growth in your property is a bathroom.
Bathrooms we find so much mold just due to inadequate ventilation. Like for
example this bathroom here has no exhaust fan right. The other area is
right here at the shower doors we see this all the time a lot of homeowners
missed this that little bit right there is telling me that the showering on a
day-to-day basis excludes a little bit of water gets into the drywall which
then causes mold. Underneath bathroom sinks as well.
Just like kitchens there's connections, waste pipes, faucets, supply lines and
oftentimes a lot of people store a lot of their soaps and, and things underneath there.
So often check those bathroom sinks. So inside bathrooms you guys when you don't
have a proper exhaust fan you're gonna to start seeing stains like this.
This tells me that there is some dew point or sweating that's happening every time that
this bathroom is being used. Oftentimes that's a sign of the first stage of mold growth.
The other area is your HVAC especially your return. A lot of the
ducts oftentimes the condensation line will leak in this area here. So
definitely check your HVAC return system. The other area is behind or underneath
kitchen cabinets. There are so many plumbing connections here for water to
waste pipes even this here it's got a little bit of moisture here that right
there causes mold especially when you have all of your
soaps and everything most people miss that over a long period of time mold
begins to grow with those slow leaks. So check those underneath the sinks quite
often. So guys it's just not a visible inspection what I just showed you but
another great way to determine if you do have mold that's not visible is
performing an air test. That is the ultimate way to really identify if there
is mold spores that are in the air caused by maybe you have mold in a crawl
space in an attic or even inside the wall cavity. So oftentimes if you do have
a leak that's hidden and there is mold growing because obviously water moisture
causes the mold. Mold is just the by-products you've gotta check the
moisture first but ultimately a mold air test sent to a third-party
accredited mold lab is the best way to determine if you do in fact have mold
contamination. Well hopefully this video helped
As always,
Thanks for watching