02 Apr When Should You Sample For Mold?
When should you sample for mold? I get that question asked a lot. Why are you sampling?
So I go through a series of questions when a client calls us on the phone, cause they are really concerned about mold and they wanna know what kind of mold they have.
They want to do mold testing that’s typically the best answers I can help you people wanna know and feel secure that you know what you’re talking about and if you can save me some money while you’re doing it it’s even better.
I’m here to tell you today that most often most people don’t need to do mold testing if they know they already have mold they wanna know what kind of mold it is.
That’s not entirely necessary unless they’re immune compromise have a health concern and they’ve been to the doctor and they’ve been experiencing negative effects of what they think might be a mold, but if you had some blood work done, and you know specifically what kind of mold you have but now you’re really better off doing viable mold sampling. What’s the difference between viable versus non-viable.
Typically in most situations myself and others would do non-sampling which is a sample a five minute sample drawing into a 15 L per minute 75 L of air would be a five minute sample and collecting the air that’s in the air which often have mold which is on dust and it’s going on a microscope and I can’t tell if it’s living or non-living, but they’re both there on the cassette with which is more expensive.