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For more info or for answers to your mold inspector, mold remediator,
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Mold Inspection Picture Blog
by Phillip Fry and Divine Montero,
mold consultants,
Certified Environmental Hygienists,
Certified Mold Inspectors, and Certified Mold Remediators. Please email
your mold pictures
(in jpeg file format) and mold questions to Fry and Montero
manager@moldinspector.com.
►Huge
white and black mold growths on the concrete ceiling and walls of a small
basement in Socorro, New Mexico. Picture taken April 12, 2012.
►Picture
of mold growth inside an air conditioning air distribution register in an
office in Malaysia.
Picture taken April 9, 2012, by
mold expert
and Certified Environmental Hygienist Phillip Fry.
►Posted
April 6, 2012. Mold mushrooms growing out of a bathroom sink cabinet in a
condominium in Penang Malaysia, that was inspected and mold remediated by
mold expert
Phillip Fry in March, 2012. Picture by Fry client Daniel Skitch. Read the
Skitch's client testimonial about
Phillip's mold
services.
►March
13, 2012.
Amman, Jordan, mold picture with
Middle East mold
question and answer.
►March
12, 2012. Mold growth in the wood floor
and in the bottom of a cabinet in an expensive home in Makati,
Philippines. Picture is in the lower right hand corner of this page.
►Feb.
18, 2012. Picture below shows the moldy basement walls of an Alabama house
for sale. The
mold is caused by ground water penetration leaking into the walls.
►Feb.
15, 2012. Picture below is of very bad mold growth on the walls and floors
of a rental house in Amman, Jordan. The mold problem is caused by water
coming through the outside walls.
►Jan.
21, 2012. Mold loves to eat wallpaper paste and wallpaper. See the picture
below of the hidden wallpaper mold discovered by
mold
consultants Fry and Montero in a Bangkok, Thailand, house that they
mold remediated.
►Jan. 16, 2012. Homeowners and property owners in the State
of California and the Gulf Coast states should be ever vigilant for
the house-destroying
Poria fungus, of which there is a picture of this house-eating
fungus posted at the right of this blog entry. Picture by
Hank
Taylor, Certified Mold Inspector in So Calif.
►Jan. 15,
2012. New homes and other buildings under construction should have
their timbers, plywood and drywall (all sides and edges) sprayed with
a wet coating of a
mold
preventative like
boric acid powder
or
Tim-Bor.
See the picture of a new home being sprayed by the experienced mold
remediation work crew of
California mold remediator Hank Taylor.
►Jan. 11,
2012. Use a moisture meter to locate hidden wet spots in walls,
ceilings, and floors. Wet spots are likely locations of mold growth.
See picture. |

Poria fungus photographed by
Hank
Taylor, CMI |

Mold prevention spraying in a new Southern California house by the
work crew of
Mold
Contractor Hank Taylor. |

Above: Extensive and dangerous mold growth hidden on
the backside of wallpaper in a Bangkok, Thailand, house remediated by
mold
consultants
Phillip Fry and Divine Montero in Jan., 2012. Picture by Phillip Fry,
Certified Environmental Hygienist. Picture to the right: huge
mold growth on the walls and the floor of a rental home of a foreigner in
Amman, Jordan. Picture taken Feb. 15, 2012. |
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Certified
Mold Inspector Hank Taylor using a moisture meter
to check for hidden wetness in a drywall-constructed
wall. |

This picture taken Feb. 18,
2012 is of the moldy basement of an Alabama house for sale. The wall
mold is the result of water entering the house from outside ground water
leaking in. |
mold
growth
Mold
growth in the wood floor and in the bottom of a cabinet in an
expensive home in Makati, Philippines, picture taken March 12, 2012. |

Posted April 6, 2012. Mold
mushrooms growing out of a bathroom sink cabinet
in a condominium in Penang Malaysia, that was inspected and mold
remediated
by mold
expert Phillip Fry in March, 2012. Picture by Fry client Daniel Skitch.
Read the Skitch's client testimonial about
Phillip's mold
services for their condo. |

Picture of mold
growth inside an air conditioning air distribution register in an office
in Malaysia.
Picture taken April 9, 2012, by
mold expert
and Certified Environmental Hygienist Phillip Fry.
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Huge white and black mold growths on the concrete ceiling and walls of a
small basement in New Mexico. Picture taken April 12, 2012. |
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Where mold grows
▪Attics with roof leaks or inadequate ventilation
▪Basements with dirt floors or water problems
▪ Behind and under showers, tubs, toilets, and bathroom walls
▪ Books, magazines, newspapers
▪ Carpeting and padding
▪ Ceilings [from roof leaks]
▪ Ceiling tiles
▪ Clothing
▪ Crawl spaces
▪ Drapes
▪ Drywall in ceilings/walls
▪ Garbage disposal
▪Heating/cooling equipment & ducts
▪ Humidifiers
& vaporizers
▪ Leather items
▪ Painted
surfaces
▪ Paper, cardboard & other paper products
▪ Plants
(indoor house plants)
▪ Rags
▪Upholstered furniture
▪ Walls
(from siding, roof, & plumbing leaks)
▪ Wallpaper & behind wallpaper
▪ Wood products
Causes of Mold Growth
*Basement flooding and water
intrusion
*Closeness to lake, river, or ocean
*Clothes
dryer exhausting into walls/attic
*Construction defects + poor workmanship
*Crawl space
*Firewood indoors
*Flooding *Lot grading downward to home
*High indoor humidity [60%+]
*Humidifiers & vaporizers
*Inadequate ventilation
*Indoor plants
*Overflow from tubs/showers/sinks/toilets
*Landscaping mistakes like mulch & plant glut
*Leakyroof
*Venting inadequacies in kitchen & bathrooms
*Sewage pipe leaks *Siding water leaks
*Water supply pipe
leaks leaks
*Wooded setting keeps out sun
*Wet clothes drying indoors on clothes line
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