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Preventing the Spread of Mold in your Home

By Joseph Tranturder


When you own a home in Redding, you should be prepared to deal with mold removal. It is important that you catch mold in its early stages to ensure that the mold does not spread throughout your home and cause serious health or structural problems.

Even a small fire in the home can cause significant and wide spread fire damage in a Redding home. This is because fires cause damage through the smoke they produce as well as the flames they create.

Cooking fires that originate in the kitchen are the most frequent form of fire ignition in the home. Not only are kitchen fires due to cooking equipment, such as the stovetop and oven, the leading cause of reported house fires in America, they are also the leading cause of unreported fires in the home and the leading cause of injuries sustained during a house fire.

If there has been flooding in your home recently, there will have been a very large influx of moisture. When water does not dry properly it is very easy for mold to start growing and it can flourish if you do not realize that it is growing in your home.

Corrosive material and elements found in common fire smoke contain elements that can eat away at metal surfaces, wood finishes, and the structural make up of a home. For these reasons, both the destructive nature of fire itself and the corrosive nature of the fire's byproduct of smoke, any form of house fire can cause great and lasting damage to a home.

Alcohol and other extremely flammable accelerants should be kept at a safe distance during the entire cooking process. The person who is doing the cooking should not be wearing loose clothing, especially around the sleeve area, or aprons as these items have a tendency to wonder into the direct line of heat and become ignited.

Stopping the source of water, if it is still flowing, is what you need to do first. There is no point in cleaning up water that is simply going to be replaced by the water that is still flowing into your home.

One of the first steps in securing the home from a house fire and how best to prevent a house fire is to know where the possible ignition points are located within the home. This means the kitchen, mostly.

When cooking the Thanksgiving meal this year, remember that faulty cooking equipment can be just as dangerous as misused cooking equipment. Properly maintain and clean the cooking area and equipment thorough the year to ensure that the appliances and cooking equipment in the home are working properly.

Start by ensuring that you have clothes that are not going to allow the mold to touch your skin. You should also be wearing a mask that will not let the mold spores enter your respiratory system. No matter where you own your home, you should be sure that you are prepared to combat any mold that starts to grow. If you can catch it fast, you will minimize the work that you have to do to ensure it never returns.




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