Mold Removal

Why It’s Vital that You Remove Mold from Your Home or Workplace

If your home or workplace is infested with mold or even if you suspect that it is, you must act fast to have the mold removed and ensure that it won’t return any time soon. If you live or work in one of the estimated 45 million buildings in the U.S. infested with mold then your health may be affected. For example, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approximately 4.6 million people in the U.S. may be suffering from asthma due to mold exposure in the home. Similarly, 93% of chronic sinus infections have been attributed to mold according to research conducted by the Mayo Clinic in 1999. What’s more, mold can destroy the wooden structures of your home and any wooden furniture because it can penetrate wood. Professional mold removal companies like Biotek Environmental, Inc. can help protect your health as well as your home by effectively removing any mold infestation. We can make the air in your home or workplace cleaner and safer.

One of the Most Effective and Safest Mold Removal Solutions

At Biotek Environmental, Inc., we offer you Oxidative Mold Remediation Surface Cleaners and Biostatic coatings. Our mold removal solutions are effective, safe, and non-toxic alternatives for mold removal in residential, commercial, government, healthcare, and educational structures. Our protocol is faster, more effective, and more economical than any of the traditional mold remediation methods like sanding or blasting with soda or dry ice. Unlike traditional mold removal solutions, Oxidative Remediation treats mold as a bio-contaminate which means the potential for fungal growth is destroyed as well as the potential of mold to cause an immune response or allergic reaction since oxidative remediation converts proteins from a hyper-allergenic to a hypo-allergenic state.

Why Our Mold Removal Solution is Safer

Most importantly, our mold removal service is the most environmentally safe approach on the market. Oxidative remediation is environmentally safer because the chemical byproducts produced during the oxidation process break down quickly into elemental oxygen and water. Due to the fact that our mold removal method does not use dangerous chemicals such as chlorine, pesticides, heavy metals, there are no dangerous residues after the remediation process. As result, our remediation process is not encapsulated so it does not leach poisons or heavy metals in order to control mold growth, and is effective for the life of the surface, even if it should get wet again. Moreover, since the remediation process is conducted using an airborne method, the chemicals can penetrate deeply into porous surfaces, cracks, crevices where other methods may not be able to reach.

Contact Biotek Environmental, Inc. and Say Good Riddance to Your Mold Problems

Biotek Environmental, Inc. provides mold inspections and mold removal services to mold remediation services in Columbia, Greenville, and Spartanburg, SC. Local offices are in Columbia, SC, and Greenville, SC. Call Biotek Environmental, Inc. at 866-630-7340 24/7 – 365 days a year or contact us online. We can provide you with professional mold inspection, removal, and remediation services. Our Clean, Green Restoration methods employ EPA registered and environmentally safe chemistries to help our customers reclaim their property from mold removal, and flood and fire damage in the safest ways possible.

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Facts about Mold Removal

Costly Damage

It is estimated that property damage and devaluation due to mold contamination exceeds $3 billion per year. Accordingly, builders and property owners are seeking effective solutions to protect their investment from damage. To address these concerns, new biostatic antimicrobial technologies are being deployed to combat mold contamination.

Mold-Related Insurance Claims

Mold contamination has become one of the hottest topics among builders, property owners, restoration companies, boating manufacturers, insurance companies and personal injury lawyers. According to the Insurance Information Institute, mold-related insurance claims have become a multibillion-dollar challenge for the insurance industry, and warranty costs relating to mold claims continue to grow. For personal injury lawyers, mold is considered the hottest environmental issue since asbestos. For health care professionals, the effects of mold exposure range from no response to life-threatening conditions. In response, insurers are limiting or eliminating mold coverage, builders are facing increasing costs associated with litigation, and homeowners are caught in the middle with only limited recourse.

Resilience of Mold

Mold is both pervasive and resilient. It is one of the oldest living organisms on this planet. For centuries man has harnessed its benefits and strived to eradicate its existence. In fact, one of the fastest-growing industries around the country is the mold remediation industry. Protecting properties from mold damage is a multibillion-dollar a year business. However, mold has proven to be a stubborn adversary. Industry professionals have found traditional antimicrobial disinfection methods ineffective in removing and inhibiting mold growth. In response, new technologies and techniques have been introduced to specifically combat mold. Until now, builders, healthcare providers, manufacturers of textiles, boating materials and other products created for moisture-prone environments have had no durable and safe solution for their industries.

Inhibiting Mold Growth

Inhibiting mold growth is challenging because fungi are very adaptive. They can thrive in a wide range of environments and when conditions are no longer hospitable, they can survive for decades in a dormant state. Antimicrobial disinfectants are effective in controlling mold in its growth state, but are largely ineffective when mold is dormant. Antimicrobial chemicals work by leaching or absorption into the microorganism. Once inside, they poison the microbe or otherwise interfere with its metabolism. This process is considerably less effective on dormant mold. As a result, mold easily survives the assault.

Why Biostatic Coating are the Ideal Solution to Mold Removal

Initially, the chemical industry responded to the challenges of mold prevention by adopting antifouling paints used in the marine industry. These coatings contain antimicrobial chemicals or heavy metal poisons that slowly volatilize or leached from the coating surface. While this leaching process is effective for a period of time, it is not a permanent solution, and it creates it own environmental exposure concerns. To address the requirement for long-term antimicrobial performance, stability, and environmental safety, biostatic coatings have been introduced to the mold remediation industry.

Biostatic coatings provide a durable antimicrobial effect, but they do not employ poisons, heavy metals, or volatile compounds. Biostatic coatings permanently bond to both hard and porous surfaces. Upon bonding to a surface, the biostatic antimicrobial coating inhibits microbial growth by destroying the cellular wall of the organism. As a microbe comes in contact with the treated surface, biostatic (lipophilic) molecules penetrate the cellular wall. Once the cell wall is compromised, the organism dies. This physical killing process does not wear out or employ poisons or heavy metals therefore it is durable and environmentally safe. Further, microbes cannot build up resistance to this antimicrobial process. Because of the unique characteristics of biostatic coatings, they have become the safe, effective, and long-term solution to inhibiting mold growth.