Mold Exposure: What To Keep vs. Toss
Aside from the lack of awareness, one of the worst parts about mold toxicity is knowing that your home, your safe haven, is the same place that is making you so sick. It’s incredibly traumatic, not to mention stressful, having to uproot your life and move. Remediation is always an option, of course, but most of the time it fails. Properly remediating mold is a very time consuming, very expensive process, and one that many companies will cut corners to complete. I say this from personal experience. In order for remediation to actually work, the source of the mold needs to be found and treated. Just like with the work I do as a practitioner - if the root is not addressed, anything else is simply a bandaid. This is why the advice I give to most of my clients, and one that I wish I had been given myself, is to move out. In the moment it’s stressful and unfair, but it pays dividends in the long run.
With that said, it’s important to understand that recontamination does exist - aka bringing old belongings, secretly covered in mold spores, into a new home. Or, contaminating your space again after remediation is complete. It’s one of the most common topics I’m asked about, both from clients and people on social media, because it can be confusing knowing what to keep vs. what to toss. My hope is that the following pages will give you a better understanding of how to have a successful mold-free move, or how to limit your risk of contaminating your space again after successful remediation, so that you never have to deal with the horrendous issues that these toxins cause ...EVER again.
Aside from the lack of awareness, one of the worst parts about mold toxicity is knowing that your home, your safe haven, is the same place that is making you so sick. It’s incredibly traumatic, not to mention stressful, having to uproot your life and move. Remediation is always an option, of course, but most of the time it fails. Properly remediating mold is a very time consuming, very expensive process, and one that many companies will cut corners to complete. I say this from personal experience. In order for remediation to actually work, the source of the mold needs to be found and treated. Just like with the work I do as a practitioner - if the root is not addressed, anything else is simply a bandaid. This is why the advice I give to most of my clients, and one that I wish I had been given myself, is to move out. In the moment it’s stressful and unfair, but it pays dividends in the long run.
With that said, it’s important to understand that recontamination does exist - aka bringing old belongings, secretly covered in mold spores, into a new home. Or, contaminating your space again after remediation is complete. It’s one of the most common topics I’m asked about, both from clients and people on social media, because it can be confusing knowing what to keep vs. what to toss. My hope is that the following pages will give you a better understanding of how to have a successful mold-free move, or how to limit your risk of contaminating your space again after successful remediation, so that you never have to deal with the horrendous issues that these toxins cause ...EVER again.
Aside from the lack of awareness, one of the worst parts about mold toxicity is knowing that your home, your safe haven, is the same place that is making you so sick. It’s incredibly traumatic, not to mention stressful, having to uproot your life and move. Remediation is always an option, of course, but most of the time it fails. Properly remediating mold is a very time consuming, very expensive process, and one that many companies will cut corners to complete. I say this from personal experience. In order for remediation to actually work, the source of the mold needs to be found and treated. Just like with the work I do as a practitioner - if the root is not addressed, anything else is simply a bandaid. This is why the advice I give to most of my clients, and one that I wish I had been given myself, is to move out. In the moment it’s stressful and unfair, but it pays dividends in the long run.
With that said, it’s important to understand that recontamination does exist - aka bringing old belongings, secretly covered in mold spores, into a new home. Or, contaminating your space again after remediation is complete. It’s one of the most common topics I’m asked about, both from clients and people on social media, because it can be confusing knowing what to keep vs. what to toss. My hope is that the following pages will give you a better understanding of how to have a successful mold-free move, or how to limit your risk of contaminating your space again after successful remediation, so that you never have to deal with the horrendous issues that these toxins cause ...EVER again.