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What is Mold and how does it travel? Mold is a tiny organism, too tiny, in fact, to be seen by the human eye, which nevertheless is almost everywhere and in almost everything, especially in warm, damp areas where it tends to thrive and flourish. Thus the need for vigorous Mold testing in your home and workplace, in any room you or your loved ones or coworkers spend a lot of time in. The way Mold works is that it breaks down dead plant and animal matter and by that method releases nutrients back into the environment.

Wherever there are leaves, paper, insulation, or wood, Mold is sure to be found. Whatever Mold consumes Mold destroys, traveling through the air in the form of microscopic spores. Some kinds of Mold can be toxic to human beings, especially the very young and the very old, so that it is a matter of great urgency to begin testing your living and work environment for Mold as quickly as possible.

That said, what is the best way to effectively test for Mold? In some cases, it is not enough to simply diagnoses that you actually have Mold; different kinds of Mold produce different harmful effects. Mold testing, then, is more than just looking to see if there is Mold growing on or in something; Mold testing is really getting educated about the varieties of Mold, which are toxic and which are harmless, and learning at the same time to prevent the rampant growth of Mold in the future. On the other hand, no Mold, so to speak, is good Mold, so that if you do not have the time for extensive testing and research you can at least do a wide cleaning of your home and workplace and thus make sure that the really harmful types of Mold are killed along with the more benign ones.

Here, then, are some common ways of Mold testing. Some are more complicated than others, requiring special instruments and more than a little time to complete. Others are quite simple. Whichever way you choose, you can be comfortable in knowing that some Mold testing is better than no Mold testing at all.

1.You can collect Mold spores in your home, put them in a Petri dish along with agar, and send them to a lab, where they will be grown and tested to see what exactly they are. This method is called taking a culturable sample. There are disadvantages to this method, including the time it takes to get results (usually two to three weeks), and the fact that the agar sometimes competes with the Mold sample taken from your home, thus compromising the purity of the sample.

2.You can try collecting what are called non-culturable samples, which can often be returned to you within twenty-four hours. A slide is used to hold the Mold samples and is sent to a lab where you will discover not only how thickly the Mold is growing in your home but also the family of Molds it hails from. The disadvantage of this method is that it cannot tell you exactly what species your Mold is. Non-culturable samples can be taken from a wall, duct, attic, etc., with tape, or right from the air with the Air-o-Cell method.

The internet is alive with information on Mold testing, including more detail on culturable and non-culturable Mold testing methods. A little research and patience can go far in discovering if your home has a Mold problem, and, if it does, how much of one, and how to cure it.

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