Loading...Each year, thousands of homeowners decide to have their bathrooms remodelled. Many of those homeowners enjoy doing their remodelling, but others feel as if they opened up a can of worms.
Those homeowners are likely the unlucky bunch who found mould in their bathrooms. If you were remodelling your bathroom and you find mould, do you know what to do? Unfortunately, a large number of individuals would not.
Before you familiarize yourself with what you should do if you find mould in your bathroom, it is important to examine what mould is. Mould is scientifically described as being a microscopic fungus.
This fungus not only looks unattractive, but it can be dangerous. While some types of mould are considered relatively harmless, other types of mould are considered toxic.
Unfortunately, due to the moisture that can be found inside most bathrooms, black, toxic mould can be found in thousands of bathrooms in the United States.
If you start to remodel your bathroom and you find mould under your toilet or even under your floor tiles, there is a good chance that you may have black mold on your hands.
As previously mentioned, black mould is often defined as toxic mold. This is because it is one of the most dangerous types of all mould. In addition to having respiratory problems, you may develop headaches, skin rashes, fevers, and other flu-like symptoms.
Although your first impulse may be to remove the mould yourself, you may want to rethink your decision to do so. When mould is improperly removed, mould spores can spread throughout the rest of your home.
That is why it may be good to call upon a professional. That professional will likely be a mould removal specialist or an air quality control specialist.
Although it can be quite expensive to have your mould tested and removed, you will want to do so. If your mold is not taken care of, professionally, it can begin to spread and even move into other parts of your home.
Once you have had all of your mould removed from your bathroom, no matter what type of mould it is, you will want to take steps to prevent another mold outbreak from occurring in the future.
You can easily do this by incorporating a few extra projects into your bathroom remodelling plan. It may be a good idea to make sure that your bathroom has a fan installed in it.
If you do not already have a bathroom fan installed in your bathroom, you will want to get one right away. It has been noted that working bathroom fans help to eliminate the moisture that moulds, particularly black mould, thrive off of.
No matter what type of bathroom fan you would like to purchase, whether it be a traditional bathroom fan or a decorative one, you should be able to find whatever you are looking for online or at one of your local home improvement stores.
Regardless of where you purchase a bathroom fan from, you are advised to purchase one, even if you don’t already have a mould problem.
Bathroom remodelling projects, even relatively small projects, can get quite costly. For that reason, you will want to make sure that you do everything to protect your newly remodelled bathroom from being attacked by mold.
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