OK - I can't stop relating everyday events to cleaning and restoration. After 36+ years, it just happens. Every day, around my home and office, I am reminded of what I have learned in my career; no escaping the connections. Soon, I will produce a "White Paper" on the subject.
Yesterday, I was in a condominium in Sacramento. Nice unit, many late model cars and very pleasant surrounding open spaces to enjoy the out of doors. I was on an assignment as a Consultant to determine the need for mold remediation in a pristine, empty two-bedroom, lower-level unit. The carpet and pad was pulled and piled up revealing large cracks in the slab. There was a core sample hole in the middle of the living room floor, drywall and baseboard were removed from several areas under two south-facing windows and some walls throughout the unit. Supposedly, the unit was sold to a new owner who was not informed that the unit had previous water damage and mold amplification. One could never have guessed this based strictly on the appearance of the space. Yet, the issue was discovered simply and now, officially, by costly expert investigations, destructive testing and environmental sampling.
Visual observation of mold appearing at windows, near water reservoirs (think water closet or toilet tank) and along baseboards on a regular basis may indicate high interior relative humidity. Often, it is the ill-health effects of microbial mycotoxins in the occupied space compared to the lack of same outside of the space that may alert the occupants that something is amiss. Both parties are now locked in litigation to determine who will assume what financial responsibility and both parties are spending gobs of money to prove their case. The bigger picture for me, as an Expert in this field, is you can't fool Mother Nature regardless of the appearance of the structure.
There are obvious indicators that this unit is problematic based on the simplest of observations; the surrounding land slopes toward the slab foundation on the south exposure that receives the majority of the weather. The core hole reveals a proper slab construction with vapor barrier in tack. All other simple observations point to a slab moisture problem throughout the entire space, some worse than others. There are major cracks in the slab that have been filled previously - someone knew of the problem and tried to fix it but this was not properly disclosed at the time of the sale. I have no direct knowledge of what I am about to say, but you think the neighbors who watched all of the attempted corrective activities might someday mention that to the new owner? Duh.
So what does this have to do with "molecular cleaning and other interesting facts"? Not much that you would understand - I just needed to try a catchy by-line to garner your attention. Let me know if it worked and watch for my "White Paper" on the SOS web site (www.steamaticofsacramento.com) to get the real story of molecular cleaning and other interesting facts.
