Your home or business has experienced severe water damage, whether from burst plumbing or the aftermath of a destructive storm. The immediate concern goes beyond replacing damaged materials; it’s about preventing a mold takeover.
Mold and mildew often go unseen, causing long-term health issues, structural damage, and unpleasant odors. Simply replacing wall panels and floors, along with a fresh coat of paint, won’t address the underlying problem of mold infestation. Please do NOT paint over mold, call a professional first!
What is a Mold Takeover?
A mold takeover is a serious matter that can wreak havoc on your entire home or business. It typically starts with the presence of moisture, providing the ideal conditions for mold growth and spore to spread. At first, you may notice small patches or discoloration on surfaces such as walls, ceilings, or floors.
These patches can be green, black, or even white in color. As the mold colonies expand, they can spread rapidly, covering larger areas.
A musty odor may permeate the affected space, indicating the presence of mold. You may also observe signs of water damage, such as peeling paint, warped materials, or visible mold spores in the air.
In severe cases, mold can even infiltrate hidden spaces like wall cavities, attics, or HVAC systems. A mold takeover not only poses health risks but also causes structural damage and diminishes the overall quality of your living or working environment. It is crucial to address a mold takeover promptly by seeking professional mold remediation and cleaning services to ensure a safe and mold-free space.
Water Damage May Cause Mold Takeover
Water damage effects can be invisible, necessitating the expertise of professionals like Orange Restoration to ensure your home or business is safe from mold invasion. Prompt action is crucial when mold is a looming threat.
Given enough time, moisture can seep into walls, flooring, and furniture, leading to rot, decay, and the release of potentially harmful airborne mold spores. Undetected water damage can also result in severe structural issues, which, if left unaddressed, can lead to even costlier damage in the future, impacting your profits if you have a business. Covering this up with paint is just making the problem seek a new surface to regroup for a full home mold takeover!
Hiring reliable mold remediation specialists is key to avoiding further expenses. Here’s where hiring the right mold remediation specialists will save you further expenses. The professionals know where to locate mold takeover by using the right equipment and having the expertise to use that equipment properly. These professionals possess the knowledge, equipment, and expertise to locate areas affected by mold takeover accurately.
While waiting for their arrival, there are steps you can take to minimize damage, such as using fans to dry affected areas (ensuring outlets are away from water levels) and removing water-logged furniture and items to a safe location.
Mold Takeover Management & Mold Remediation
Damage restoration specialists utilize a range of specialized equipment and technology to handle water damage effectively. Industrial fans, dehumidifiers, air movers, air scrubbers, wood floor drying units, wall cavity drying units, HEPA air cleaners, and TES drying systems are employed to mitigate the damage.
Pro Tip: Read more about mold remediation equipment in our blog.
Some technology can be used to early detect mold or moisture hidden signs of water damage can also lead to severe structural damage, which if not dealt with quickly, can lead to more costly damage in the long run.
What if Your Business has a Mold Takeover?
A mold takeover in a commercial property isn’t just a maintenance problem, it’s a direct threat to revenue, employee health, and customer trust. When operations slow or shut down, profits follow.
Professional restoration teams use advanced commercial-grade techniques to dry, decontaminate, and restore your building and its contents. This includes HEPA air scrubbing, controlled demolition, moisture mapping, and rapid structural drying to minimize downtime and prevent long-term damage.
These specialists are also trained to manage complex issues like sewage contamination, microbial growth inside wall cavities, and sanitization of high-traffic areas. In many cases, salvageable items, equipment, documents, furnishings, may need to be transported off-site for specialized cleaning, disinfection, or small-particle decontamination.
The goal is simple: get your business safe, clean, and operational again while preserving as much as possible.
Experienced Water Damage Specialists
After decades of service in general water damage repairs and water damage, we can help to tell you what to look out for.
First of all, when faced with water damage, don’t delay repairs, but also don’t settle for the cheapest restoration company.
Act swiftly to mitigate the threat of mold takeover and enlist the help of professionals who can ensure thorough mold remediation and efficient restoration.
Check potential remediation teams for their certifications and also, check their reviews to find similar work performed for other customers.
Ask them about their process and if they do a post remediation verification process, be careful as they will tell you how they prove their work.
Pro Tip on Insurance Support: Make sure the team you hire can provide the necessary reports and guide you through the paperwork submission process, streamlining your claim for a smoother recovery. The Orange Restoration team has been helping provide assistance with insurance claims for over 20 years.
Clean-Up of Secondary Mold Contamination
Our team has moved to do more serious medically sensitive mold remediation. We specialize in Medically Sound Remediation or CIRS Safe Remediation, where we only do small particle cleaning for families with chronic illnesses.
Still, we get calls all the time from families who have had a “remediation” service come to their home and leave behind more of a mold problem than they had before. This happens quite often, many of our past clients have had 1-2 bad remediation attempts.
Pro Tip: read this article to understand Why CIRS Patients cannot risk standard water damage remediation.
Our team sometimes considers taking on these secondary mold remediation projects to help these home owners to escape very bad mold scenarios. If you need help with secondary mold, call us and let us know this is the problem. Thank you