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RTS Environmental Newsletter, October 2009

In last month's newsletter we discussed the prevention of mold growth in the attic of your home. This month's newsletter focuses on taking steps to prevent mold in the living areas of your home. RTS Environmental Services wants to help by providing you with the facts about moisture and mold problems in the home so you can take the steps necessary to prevent a small problem from becoming a major crisis.

Prevent Mold Before A Problem Occurs

"A Mold /Moisture inspection is also an education in Moisture Prevention."

Part of any good mold inspection is the educational part meaning the inspector is educating you. At RTS, we endeavor to help you understand those elements of your home which are significant to preventing mold growth.

Primarily this is understanding the role of moisture control in and around your home. All homes are unique in construction features, materials, aspects of foundation, ground water, drainage, heating & cooling systems, ventilation, and hundreds of other variables.

Part of the inspection is understanding how any number of these variables affects your home and its potential for moisture in any form to produce mold growth. For example, what if you have a full in ground basement and little air exchange between floors and a high ground water table? We would be interested in knowing your relative humidity, if you have a humidifier on your HVAC system, and if you operate a dehumidifier. Under these circumstances, we might suggest you get a dehumidifier and to use room fans to keep air moving in your basement. Also, to be very cautious in regards to operating the humidifier. This set of instructions would orient you to better understanding the role of humidity (high, ambient moisture in the air). These simple controls prevent many molds from blooming on surfaces in your basement due to high relative humidity and stagnant air.

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