Category Archives: ByeBye Mold.com
Do You Have Mold in Your Apartment?
Mold is a health hazard and living in a mold-infested apartment can cause serious health issues including lung diseases, asthma, and allergies. Therefore, if you think your apartment is prone to mold-infestation, here a few tips that can help you … Continue reading
ByeByeMold Has a New Presence on Facebook and Twitter
Mold has an adverse affect on the very sick, the very old and the very young. That’s why ByebyeMold’s most recent ads on Facebook show an infant in the arms of his concerned father. Every parent is going to be … Continue reading
Not so hidden mold
Maybe you’ve been the round with your doctors and can’t find the cause. Maybe there are terrible headaches, or nausea, or swollen faces, and you can’t figure out what it is. Maybe it is mold in your home. Tightly sealed … Continue reading
Rainy Spring Brings Rampant Summer Mold
Mold intrusion in homes is worse than ever. Schedule a ByebyeMold mold inspection now. Woodland Hills, CA — (ReleaseWire) — 06/23/2015 — June has been a month of relentless thunderstorms, storms in the Plains, Midwest and Southeast. Torrential rainfall and … Continue reading
Ebola, Toxic Mold, & Biohazards Decontamination
Ebola, toxic mold, and other biological building inspection, testing, and removal procedures and protocols are now taught in a new environmental training program to train and certify individuals across the world as a Certified Decontamination Specialist, Montrose, MI, October 21, … Continue reading
California Board of Equalization Faces $50M Mold Claim
After they spent $28 million just dealing with the mold remediation, The California Board of Equalization (BOE) is facing a new claim filed by their employees, who say that the mold at the BOE headquarters has been causing them respiratory … Continue reading
View the mold weather map
If you have problems with mold, check out the mold weather map here. You know the drill. Click to view. If you’re in California, you might want to give us a call and see about getting an assessment from Byebyemold.
Mold health Concerns
If you have been exposed to high levels of mold, you may wish to be tested by your doctor to see if you are hosting mold. If you have elevated mold levels in your home, you may also have it … Continue reading
Catching and preventing Indoor Mold Problems
You can help prevent mold with some planning ahead of time. Mold spores travel through the air and when they land on moisture, they grow, and propagate. Indoor mold growth can cause health problems like allergy, asthma attacks and pneumonia, … Continue reading
Clean your Air-Conditioners to Keep Mold Allergies Away
There is no denying to the fact that air-conditioning makes life easier. Nevertheless, those who live in warm areas know that it can also increase the risk of mold allergies. The leftover moisture inside the units often provide a favorable … Continue reading
DANGERS OF MOLD IN NEW CONSTRUCTION
It is common knowledge that mold can be a health hazard, causing skin and eye irritation, congestion, lung deficiencies, asthmatic symptoms to those who are allergic. New construction must be built with an awareness of the kind of environment that … Continue reading
Toxic Mold in Residential Buildings
Byebye Mold performs mold inspections but we do not do remediation. You might want to perform an inspection on a property prior to purchase or sale of realty, or for other legal purposes; or if you are living in an … Continue reading
Beware Mold in Dog food
Aflatoxin has been found in bagged dog food found on Iowa grocery stores shelves. The source of the mold is corn used in the infected dog food. Five different product lines of dog food with elevated levels of aflatoxin across … Continue reading
Parking lot possible over mold facility
The building and property has since been given to the parish, and former Terrebonne Parish Mental Health Center in Houma begins soon, but toxic mold inside is a concern. Beginning March 28, 23,000-square-foot building will be stripped of the toxic … Continue reading
Mold Prevention
Molds are microscopic organisms that live on plant or animal matter. In the natural world, mold aids in the breakdown of dead material and recycle nutrients in the environment. That includes your house, and any of your property that is … Continue reading
A Scary Mold Movie
ByebyeMold Detects Mold! If you’re in California, you might want to give us a call and see about getting an assessment from Byebyemold.
Mold Procedures
We hope all the Sandy victims are drying out successfully now. We’re sure you followed up the sump pumps with dehumidifiers. Let’s hope you threw away everything that wasn’t salvageable, all contaminated soft goods, and managed to clean up everything … Continue reading
Winter Mold
Mold issues do not only occur when it is hot and muggy. Think of indoor mold trapped inside during the winter months. Central heating can be a perfect system to distribute spores throughout a household, anywhere the vents can reach. … Continue reading
How Much Mold Is In This Air?
If this were your living room, would you want to breathe this air without testing it? If you’re in California, you might want to give us a call and see about getting an assessment from Byebyemold.
Sandy Mold Inspections. Mold is Bad Business.
Everyone may be losing jobs in New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, and Maryland but in the wake of Sandy, look for an increase in mold-clean up and service related business start-ups. But it takes more than ambition to … Continue reading
Mold Issues in Court: Catch 21 and 1/2
You know what the catch 22 is, right? The solution to the problem refers the problem back on itself. It’s a paradox. Here’s the original one by Joseph Heller: There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified … Continue reading
Toxic Stew
Toxic Compounds in water damaged houses are a cause for concern, not only because mold can be a factor, but also because anything could be a factor. The toxic stew is an original combination of whatever contaminants happen to be … Continue reading
Midwest Mold Air Quality Alert Issued
The Midwest is under an air quality alert because of dangerous levels of mold. Top 3 Species: Cladosporium (Cladosporium) Ascospores: includes Leptosphaeria, Venturia, Ascobolus, Diatrypaceae, Pleospora, Xylaria, Chaetomium, Sporomiella, Claviceps, Ascomycete, et al. (Undifferentiated Ascospores) Smuts/Myxomycetes: includes Fuligo, grass smut, … Continue reading
Fungi in Particulates-Should it affect air quality standards?
There are speculations that airborne fungi are highly present in particulates and may even effect the weather. A wide range of airborne species exists, but more is known about its behavior in the lab than when it is in an … Continue reading
Bye Bye Mold Can’t Clean your Cereal
Be extra vigilent regarding your cereals this year, because you know we can’t clean your cereal. It doesn’t change the fact that there’s a higher mycotoxin risk in cereals. European legislative limits for the most common mycotoxins (eg DON and … Continue reading
Professional Procedures
The California legislature enacted the Toxic Mold Protection Act (TMPA) in 2002, and was later updated The law notes that “damp buildings encourage the growth of bacteria and degradation of wet building materials can release irritant chemicals indoors. Some or … Continue reading
Potential Dangers of toxic mold
Experts worry that record breaking heat and extreme storms in hurricane season are laying the groundwork for mold in residential properties. Homeowners should be aware. Exposure to damaging mold is liable to rise if the water table rises. Record heat … Continue reading
Environmental Hazard of Mold
Repeated exposure to an allergen or toxic substance triggers reactive symptoms. After you have become hyper-sensitized to an agent, each time you come in contact with it, your symptoms reappear or worsen. Sometimes the allergen is part of the living … Continue reading
Top Ten List
Ten Dangers of Mold 1. pulmonary hemorrhage (Mostly in babies.) 2. nose bleed 3. immune system damage 4. headache 5. hair loss 6. dermatitis 7. depression 8. chronic fatigue syndrome 9. sore throat 10. respiratory symptoms including allergy, respiratory distress, … Continue reading