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Can Mold Issues Continue to Persist in the Future w/out Environmental Report? | Mold Lawyer Atlanta
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Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with long-time friend and owner of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. Richard Johnson: My name is Richard Johnson and I'm the President/CEO of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. That's absolutely correct. If you don't have a clear enough picture of everything that's going on that needs to be addressed, you're not going to address those things that you don't know about. And so it will go on in the future. Carson: You know Richard, I always liken to my clients the situation where maybe they've got a problem with a contractor that maybe installed a roof improperly leading to water leak or they've got a landlord who has allowed water to penetrate to the unit or maybe a leaking HVAC unit. And the clients will call me and they'll say, "The landlord sent a couple maintenance workers over and maybe they removed a piece of drywall and repatched it or maybe they sprayed it with bleach." The question I always ask my clients is, “Isn't this a lot like taking your car to the mechanic and just verbally telling him what you think the problem is, and then him ordering parts before he has even diagnosed the problem?” Richard: Yeah, it is really true. And that's absolutely correct. And you can know more, understand the effect that all this can have on – let's say you have a leak in the wall or some area like that – if you have water in that system, the indoor air humidity is going to be elevated. That humidity can cause problems in other places that you don't have any idea of what's going on, and you can't visually determine that any more than you can look at a glass of water and find out if there's harmful chemicals in it. They're of a quantity that are small in size and nature, but over a period of time can have adverse health effects for you. Carson: So I might have invisible leak in the attic of my home creating excess humidity that's creating a mold problem in the downstairs living room. Richard: That's exactly correct. Carson: And there's no way that I or any maintenance worker or any contractor would know that unless they did proper environmental testing. Richard: That's exactly correct. Sometimes people call and say, "Well, can you just come out and take a look and tell us, you know, whether or not this is a thing?" We tell them the same thing. We can't tell any more than anybody else can until we take the samples and really find out what is there. Because the spores – you can't see much below twenty microns and the spores are in the three to five micron range. You're just not going to be able to detect them, visually.
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Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with long-time friend and owner of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. Richard Johnson: My name is Richard Johnson and I'm the President/CEO of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. That's absolutely correct. If you don't have a clear enough picture of everything that's going on that needs to be addressed, you're not going to address those things that you don't know about. And so it will go on in the future. Carson: You know Richard, I always liken to my clients the situation where maybe they've got a problem with a contractor that maybe installed a roof improperly leading to water leak or they've got a landlord who has allowed water to penetrate to the unit or maybe a leaking HVAC unit. And the clients will call me and they'll say, "The landlord sent a couple maintenance workers over and maybe they removed a piece of drywall and repatched it or maybe they sprayed it with bleach." The question I always ask my clients is, “Isn't this a lot like taking your car to the mechanic and just verbally telling him what you think the problem is, and then him ordering parts before he has even diagnosed the problem?” Richard: Yeah, it is really true. And that's absolutely correct. And you can know more, understand the effect that all this can have on – let's say you have a leak in the wall or some area like that – if you have water in that system, the indoor air humidity is going to be elevated. That humidity can cause problems in other places that you don't have any idea of what's going on, and you can't visually determine that any more than you can look at a glass of water and find out if there's harmful chemicals in it. They're of a quantity that are small in size and nature, but over a period of time can have adverse health effects for you. Carson: So I might have invisible leak in the attic of my home creating excess humidity that's creating a mold problem in the downstairs living room. Richard: That's exactly correct. Carson: And there's no way that I or any maintenance worker or any contractor would know that unless they did proper environmental testing. Richard: That's exactly correct. Sometimes people call and say, "Well, can you just come out and take a look and tell us, you know, whether or not this is a thing?" We tell them the same thing. We can't tell any more than anybody else can until we take the samples and really find out what is there. Because the spores – you can't see much below twenty microns and the spores are in the three to five micron range. You're just not going to be able to detect them, visually.
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1 What If Your Mold Problem is Coming from a Common Area Problem? | Toxic Mold Attorney | David Carter 1:08
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1 Do Air Purifiers Eliminate Mold? | What Do The Filter Ratings Mean For Mold Spores? | Mold Firm 3:24
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with long-time friend and owner of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. Richard Johnson: My name is Richard Johnson and I'm the President/CEO of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. Well the best thing is a good filter in the HVAC system. They have ratings on filters that can describe how small of a particulate it can capture and including mold spores, because mold spores are basically a particulate. A filter with the equivalent of a MERV8 rating will capture a particulate down as small as 3 microns. Now, most mold spores are 3 microns or higher, aspergillus, penicillium for instance are in the 3.3 micron range, stachybotrys is around 5 microns. So if you have at least a MERV8 filter in your furnace, you're going to be reducing the amount of mold spores that are in the air. It's not going to eliminate them, but it'll be healthier. If you're looking for the background particulate due to the deterioration of the indoor environment, there we recommend at least a MERV10 filter because that'll go down to 1 micron. And that will help filter out some of the background particulate as well. The problem that we see in Atlanta, there are no regulations on what kind of filters that the HVAC system should have, as a result, the vast majority of all of the places that we go into where they're having respiratory problems have these fiberglassy, see-through filters that are statistically equivalent to no filter at all when it comes to helping the indoor air quality. And it's particularly true in apartment buildings where we see that the filters are useless in terms of filtering any of these kinds of materials out of the air. Carson Jeffries: Some things tenants and homeowners can do, or landlords, to reduce the probability for unhealthy particulates or mold would include: better filtration, proper maintenance of HVAC units, and elimination of excess moisture such as leaks, pipe bursts, things of that nature. Richard Johnson: Absolutely, water is not your friend in the built environment. If you have any kind of a situation where you have some real high humidity or causing that kind of thing in the indoor environment, you have a serious problem. And it doesn't have to be directly in the indoor environment if it's a home for instance, that has a crawl space, the crawl space is not conditioned or filtered and all that kind of thing, so you have a perfect environment for a lot of mold growth. And then a lot of these places have the furnace in the crawl space and if the furnace is not well sealed, to completely isolate the air from the crawl space from the home, what happens is you have this breeding ground for mold and that kind of stuff gets drawn into the HVAC system and then broadcast out through the entire home.…
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1 Are You Broadcasting Mold Into The Air In Your Home? | Georgia Toxic Mold Attorneys | Mold Firm 4:05
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with long-time friend and owner of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. Richard Johnson: My name is Richard Johnson and I'm the President/CEO of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. We do have data because we've done thousands and thousands of these samples over the years. We have data that we can say, if the amount of mold spores in the carpet is normal, if they tend to be water damage spores or if they tend to be what they call phylloplane spores, which are much less likely to have some kind of a problem and we can give some guidance. In carpet dust for instance there's only three things you can do with a carpet, you can vacuum it, with a HEPA filter, if you don't use a HEPA filter vacuum, you're just going to broadcast it out into the air, and even with the HEPA filter vacuum, some of that stuff is going to get out into the air, the real fine particulate in spores. Or you can clean the carpet. Or you can replace the carpet. And we put instructions in there if you're gonna replace it, how to treat the floor underneath it ahead of time, if you're gonna clean it, what kind of stuff you should use to clean it and how you should handle that. And the fact of the HEPA filter vacuum and that kind of stuff if you're gonna vacuum it. So that's one of the kinds of sampling that we do and we tell them how to handle the carpet, but more importantly we find out what else is going on in the environment from that, that we can tell them about. Another kind of sampling that can be done in addition to air samples and the carpet dust samples is a tape sample. We have a slide which has some adhesive on it and we can take the cover off and place it on a surface and then take that and examine it, similar to the way we examine a slide that's in the air sample set. And we can identify to the genus level what's on that surface. If you're trying to identify a particular kind of mold on the wall, just to the common names that you hear like aspergillus or penicellium, you can take that sample and you can identify it. And what you learn from that is what's on that square inch that you've sampled, it doesn't tell you anything about a foot away or two feet away or something else that might be in the room but if you're trying to identify what's a particular thing and try to tie it together with what else you're finding that can be a useful sample. To be able to go in and use that sample though to say that the house is mold-free or something like that is not accurate. The other kind of samples we take, we can take a swab sample. The purpose of the swab sample is if you want to get to the species level of a particular mold type. Things like aspergillus and penicillium, that we can see in the air have perhaps 200 different species between the two of them and different species have different health characteristics that I mentioned, from the headaches and the respiratory and the allergy things that we find in the carpet dust, that's done at the species level. So if you go and you take a tape sample, you can't identify the species, you can say if it's aspergillus or penicillium, but you can't say what species it is. Carson Jeffries: So there's different types of aspergillus and penicillium? Richard Johnson: Absolutely, there's a couple hundred different kinds. And so with a swab, if you take a swab on a surface, you can take the swab and put it into a dilution and you culture that and then you can identify it to the species level to find out some of the health characteristics.…
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Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with a long-time friend and owner of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. Richard Johnson: My name is Richard Johnson, and I'm the President/CEO of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. Oh yeah, we find mold damage, spores are everywhere in small quantities, but if the environment is right to grow them they will start to grow. An example of not needing light, certainly in wall cavities would be a good example about that, but another place is behind wallpaper, particularly vinyl wallpaper on an exterior wall, there's in enough moisture from the condensation, if that wall is not well insulated, to form moisture on the back of the vinyl wallpaper. And the mold will grow in the glue of the wallpaper and then that could wind up having adverse effects on the air quality as well. As far as in growing water in the wall cavities, let's say you have a leak above a window or something and it gets into the wall cavity and you wind up having mold growth in the insulation, say in the wall cavity or outside the board or the backside of the drywall or whatever, all houses share air with the outside to some extent no matter how much we try to seal them up. As an example of you turn the bathroom fan on and you're exhausting air out, that air has to come from somewhere or it's going to collapse the house. So all houses have some breathing and when it comes in through the wall and it comes in under the framing or something like that or through the wall, whatever's in that wall cavity can in fact come into the indoor environment. So It definitely has a path into the indoor environment from the exterior. And the same way with interior walls, an example of how it can happen that way is if the HVAC system is not well balanced, you'll have air that has to come from somewhere and can leak into the other rooms from underneath the floors and stuff. If you have light colored carpeting you're gonna have a dark area around the outside of the room showing how the air flow is actually coming through the wall sections into other parts of the house.…
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Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with long-time friend and owner of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. Richard Johnson: My name is Richard Johnson and I'm the President/CEO of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. When we talk to a client on the phone when they call us, it is to understand what their questions are and what their concerns are and then we will come up with a sampling strategy to answer their questions, and it would be at that point that we would decide whether or not just knowing what the genus level name is, like aspergillus or penicillium, will be adequate or if they need to go more deeply and learn about these species. It is more expensive to do a species analysis than it is to do something to the genus level in the analysis. And cost is always a concern, that's a trade-off between what you're learning and the cost of doing it. We look at it as if we're painting a picture and every sample that we take adds a color, adds a line, adds some detail that allows you to understand what the picture is. So we have to understand what we're looking for to begin with and then we can design a sampling strategy that we believe will give us enough information to make out what the picture is without necessarily incurring the cost of making a Rembrandt or some very expensive set of sampling. Carson: So it sounds like when you do comprehensive testing, a combination both of air samples, surface samples, carpet dust samples as well as development of those samples in your labs, you develop a more comprehensive picture of not only the amount and types of spores but also their health effects in their particular species. Richard: Yes, that's absolutely correct. We learned something from each of the pieces of information we do. Another thing that we make a point of doing is in discussing the sampling strategy with the client before we go there. We try to learn as much as we can that they have, in terms of their experience and the things that they know about, to help fill-in pieces of the puzzle to know what we're looking for and to make sure that we're sampling in the areas that are important. Carson: Yeah, and I know Richard from our end, we will occasionally be approached by clients. And maybe as you alluded to, we’ll go with more limited sampling from maybe another environmental company that is charging them, maybe half as much, and I tell those clients, unfortunately, that when we’re analyzing their case, the report either because it doesn't have any written findings or because of the limited sampling just doesn't provide the information necessary to move forward with the case. And then what the client finds themselves in the situation of, unfortunately, is having to get a mold report – the initial mold report – and then having to come to a company like Air Allergen for more comprehensive report, so they end up paying twice in the end. Richard: That's really true and that is always a struggle especially if people have incurred a lot of medical bills or something and are financially strapped as a result of it. The tendency would be too well, “Can I get by with just an air sampler? Can I get by with a tape sampler?” And we discourage that because what we have found, you can go into a home, we've been fooled before ourselves, you know, even doing. You go into a home, take an air sample, looks okay and then you take a carpet dust sample and you find out that even though it was okay at the time that you took the air sample, they’ve had a history of problems that have not shown up in the air sample. So doing a more comprehensive inspection and taking enough samples to really understand what's going on in the environment is very important. Otherwise you're going to be making choices that you either might be doing less than what you need to do or you might be doing more than what you need to do.…
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