What should you do if you have mold in your ductwork?
#mold #hvac #uvlight
#mold #hvac #uvlight
Public HVAC Announcement: If you think you might have mold in your ductwork, there are products on the market that can inhibit mold growth. UV Lights, ionizers, and certain types of filtration. all inhibited. However, if you know you have mold in your ductwork, you need to get a pro in there immediately.
You need to find the root cause of what's causing it, eliminate it permanently, and then replace that ductwork. I Don't think a duct cleaner will ever be able to guarantee that they've removed every single mold Spore out of that system.
I can guarantee you as a duct cleaner that no one worth their salt 🧂 in expertise can ever guarantee to remove every mold spore from an hvac system – because there are airborne mold spores in every environment!
You can’t even install a brand new duct system or duct component and successfully guarantee that it will have zero mold spores on it… and I’ve cleaned duct systems that service a BSL-4 laboratory with ULPA filtration and welded duct connections, and even these systems have mold spores in them because there’s no way to completely eliminate them from the indoor laboratory environment 🤷🏻♂️.
I definitely agree with you about the importance of identifying the underlying root cause that enables mold/microbial growth as being one of the most important things to resolve to prevent reoccurrence of mold growth after a duct restoration/remediation procedure.
NADCA-certified ASCS and VSMR duct cleaning individual (nadca does not certify companies, they certify technicians) following ACR and IICRC S520 standards can and have been quantitatively proven through EPA research studies to immediately reduce surface and airborne mold concentrations of all types of duct systems following a cleaning.
However, in the fiberglass lined duct and duct board systems (porous duct systems) that are contaminated with mold/microbial growth (like 90% of the mold I observe in duct systems is on fiberglass lining) the benefit of cleaning is only temporary because the mold growth is impregnated into the fiberglass layers and cannot be successfully removed enough to prevent recurring growth… this is why NADCA and NAIMA both call for removal and replacement of water/mold damaged fiberglass liners and duct board.
Metal and flexible ducts are capable of being successfully cleaned and remediated of mold growth, and with the lasting benefits that won’t allow for reoccurrence in growth if the underlying cause is addressed.
Mold and microbial growth that forms on top of a fiberglass surface restoration coating that is installed before the insulation lining develops mold contamination is also capable of being successfully cleaned on the surface of the coating, but not as effective if the growth occurs underneath the surface of the coating. Service area Kanata??
UV, Ionizers', Filtration are all futile when dealing with microbial growth my brother.
It never works once black mold u have to rip it out