Improving Mold Removal for Your Danbury Property

9/19/2023 (Permalink)

If you are dealing with mold damage in your Danbury home call SERVPRO! We're Faster to any size disaster™.

SERVPRO® Blast-Cleans Danbury Homes for Efficient Mold Remediation

Mold removal can be challenging for different reasons, including contamination affecting large swathes of your property, sensitive underlying materials, or significant semi-porous materials. SERVPRO can ease your mold removal needs using blast-cleaning approaches that restore your Danbury home to its preloss state.

Blast cleaning involves different types of mediums over surfaces at high pressure, facilitating the mold removal your Danbury home requires. Since it is an advanced restoration approach, it is only ideal in exceptional circumstances as determined by a professional such as SERVPRO. Handling some of the media poses some risks.

Standard media used in blast cleaning moldy surfaces

• Dry ice pellets
• Sodium bicarbonate
• Sand

Blast cleaning presents advantages such as eliminating the need for moisture-based cleaning procedures, which might delay the remediation since moisture promotes microbial growth processes. It's also easier to work faster over vast areas and unfinished surfaces or reach hidden places, depending on the medium chosen. For example, our SERVPRO crews use dry ice pellets to clean mold from crevices since it does not leave residues - the pellets crumble and change into a gas through sublimation. 

Other Benefits of Blast Cleaning

Semi-porous surfaces in a property offer the perfect conditions for mold to spread since they can be a food source in the case of wood, and they also act as a moisture reservoir. As the colonies develop, their root-like hyphae penetrate the surface, embedding the problem. Abrasive cleaning is essential to strip off the embedded colonies. Sandblasting resolves the situation since its resilient particles have a significant mechanical impact that strips off the colonies and a layer of the underlying material, thus effectively addressing mold development. 

Advantages of soda blasting moldy surfaces

• Versatility since it works on wood, metal, concrete, brick, and more materials
• Odor control since its alkaline nature balances pH levels, diminishing odors
• Environmental friendliness since it does not release chemicals or produce dust

SERVPRO of Danbury / Ridgefield uses advanced mold removal procedures to manage microbial contamination. Call us at (203) 791-0920. We're Faster to any size disaster™.