Mold on Wood Removal & Testing

Our Process to Remove Mold from Wood

There are many types of wood and some woods are easier to remove mold from than others. In addition, mold can stain wood and no amount of cleaning, or chemicals can completely eliminate the stains in some cases. Just know that they are just stains and not actual mold if the mold remediation is done properly.

Also, if you have mold on wood structural framing, the good news is that most of the time you do not replace the entire piece of moldy wood unless the wood is badly rotted from say prolonged water damage.

So anyway, what is our process for removing mold from your wood? Every situation is unique, but generally speaking, our mold remediation process for wood is as follows:

1. Containment. This just means sealing off and containing the work area where the mold problem is located to prevent or limit the mold from spreading to other areas of your home or business where there is not a mold problem.

2. HEPA Air Scrubbing. Here, we use air mover machines with HEPA air filters to clean the air and capture the mold spores in the air. HEPA filters can capture 99.97% of all airborne and microscopic mold spores which pass through the filters.

3. Selective Demo. This is where we’d pull up the carpet to expose the pad that’s underneath.  We’d then bag and remove that nasty carpet pad.  It’s almost always the source of a “mold on carpet” problem.

4. HEPA Vacuum. Here, we use vacuums with HEPA filters to  vacuum the work area to capture the mold spores on the visible surfaces.

5. Antimicrobial Cleaning. This step involves detailed cleaning of the contaminated area with hospital-grade antimicrobial cleaning agents to kill mold growth.

6. Final HEPA Vacuuming & Clean-Up of Work Area. We once again do HEPA vacuuming and perform an antimicrobial wipe-down on surfaces where mold spores may have settled within the work area.

7. QC Check & Customer Sign-Off. In the final step, we do a detailed quality control check and do a walk through with the customer (when they are available) to go over the completed job. Once the customer signs off, we take down containment and clean up the work area.

If you have questions about our mold remediation process here, please contact us. We always provide Free Quotes for mold removal and our work is backed by our 10-Year Transferable Warranty.