How to Test Your Home for Mold
Man checking the wall with mold Is there mold in your home?
Man checking the wall with mold Is there mold in your home?
Close up of a female worker of cleaning service removes mold from wall using spray bottle with mold remediation chemicals, mold removal products. Mold in your home is almost always bad news. Mold is a fungus designed to digest dead trees into forest soil, but it can’t tell the difference between a house and a tree. It likes to grow in any material that is saturated with moisture, and it only has to be soaked once for the mold to start a colony. From there, it will try to live off the moisture in the air and any nutrients it can eat from the new home. Mold likes to grow in drywall after a leak, furniture after a flood, and can take hold in the carpet with just a spill that dries slowly. It can eat away at structural beams and cause roofs to sag.