Mold Remediation in Melbourne, FL
Air conditioning came later to many Melbourne homes.
The mold often starts in those ducts.
Mold in a Melbourne house rarely stays in one room. It rides the air handler into the ducts, grows behind drywall on block walls and comes back if the leak feeding it stays open. We take it out, fog the ducts and close off the source in one job.
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How is mold remediation different from mold removal?
Mold remediation covers more than mold removal. Removal takes growth off a surface. Remediation contains the area, removes damaged drywall and insulation, treats what is left, cleans the AC system and fixes the moisture that fed the mold. Florida requires a state license for mold remediation on areas over 10 square feet.
Mold in Melbourne Homes
Where mold starts in a Melbourne house
Central Air Added Later
Builders designed a lot of the 1950s and early 1960s homes around Eau Gallie and downtown for window units. Central air came years later, run through the attic. Retrofit ductwork in a hot attic that leaks cold air at the joints sweats all summer. Mold shows up first as black specks on the ceiling registers, then inside the ducts where nobody can see it.
A Week Without Air After Irma
Hurricane Irma knocked out power across Brevard County in September 2017. Four days later FPL reported the county about 80 percent restored, with the last homes expected back a week after the storm. A closed-up block house with no air conditioning in September humidity can grow mold on drywall, closet walls and the backs of furniture in that time.
Lagoon Air on the Barrier Island
Houses in Indialantic, Melbourne Beach and along the river side of Eau Gallie sit in damp air off the Indian River Lagoon for most of the year. A small roof or window leak there keeps drywall wet long enough to grow mold inside closets and behind furniture on outside walls. Those are the spots nobody checks until the smell gives them away.
Our Process
How we remove mold in Melbourne
- 1
Find the Moisture
We walk the whole house with a moisture meter, including the rooms you did not call about. Mold grows where water sits, so we find the water before we cut anything out.
In a Melbourne block home we check the slab edge and the attic ductwork before anything else.
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Contain the Area
We seal the work area with plastic sheeting and keep it under negative air through HEPA filters. Spores stay inside the work zone and out of the rest of the house.
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Remove Damaged Material
We cut out moldy drywall, insulation and carpet and bag it inside the containment before it leaves the room. We clean the hard surfaces worth keeping instead of replacing them.
On block walls we also pull the wood furring strips behind the drywall wherever growth has reached them, following the EPA's guidance on mold and moisture.
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Treat and Fog
We treat every exposed surface with an antifungal and fog the AC ducts to reach spores the air handler has carried through the house. A new AC filter goes in before we leave.
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Stop the Water
If the water came through the foundation, we waterproof the block in the same job. A roof, a pipe or a sweating AC duct needs another trade, so we show you where it is and name who to call before the walls go back up.
The corner that grew mold last August usually grows it again the next August if the leak behind it stays open, which is why mold keeps coming back in so many Florida homes.
Our mold work runs under Florida mold remediator license MRSR5565. Our foundation waterproofing carries a lifetime warranty against water coming through the section we treat.
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