Is the Furniture in My Home Something I Should Be Concerned About? | Toxic Mold Attorney Atlanta

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Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with long-time friend and owner of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. Richard Johnson: My name is Richard Johnson and I'm the President/CEO of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. We can do a similar kind of sampling that we do in the carpet for furniture. We have a portable vacuum with a special nozzle and a special gasket that will be able to capture the dust that contains the mold spores. We can vacuum that furniture and we can learn something about it in terms of the quantity of spores that are on there and whether or not they’re likely to be growing at that time or not. If it's a fabric, we're measuring the dust that has settled down into the fabric. If we're looking at the framing where it's been water damaged in the bottom, there we would maybe take a tape sample or swab to find out whether there's mold growth that's associated with water damage. We can learn about that in terms of furniture by taking those samples. Our database isn't that complete in the furniture side of it as it is in the carpet dust, but we can imply, based on what we seen in the carpet dust, to what we see in the furniture to give some guidance as to whether or not it's likely that can be cleaned up or whether it should be discarded. Carson: In certain cases, you may find that a tenant or a homeowner should not be moving property from the mold contaminated residence to a new mold-free residence? Richard: Yes, in some cases that would be true. Carson: And let me ask you, are there certain spores that can develop on the property that could cause health defects if that personal property was moved to a new location, say, a large upholster couch? Richard: Well, yes, because any of the spores that would be in that couch, if the conditions are right, are going to grow. If they grow, they're putting those spores out into the air. And those spores that are already into the air, if they find another place to grow as well, the more places that they can find in an environment that they can grow in, they can continue to reproduce.