Protect Yourself
Against Mold Scams
Are you a
mold scam victim? Because
the mold industry is so new, it is currently unregulated and unlicensed.
Because the demand for mold testing and mold remediation is so high, there
do exist, unfortunately, mold scammers who want to separate property
owners from their money rather than from their mold problems. To avoid
being a victim of a mold scam, if you have a possible mold problem, please
hire a Certified Mold Inspector, Certified Mold Contractor,
or Certified Mold Remediator. To find one in your area, please
click on: Certified Mold Inspectors.
Here are
several mold frauds perpetrated by insurance companies and insurance
adjusters---
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Hiring
incompetent, low-paid, company-stooge testing personnel to do the least
possible mold testing in the least likely mold-locations in an insured's
property so that any actual mold is NOT likely to be discovered.
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Utilizing popular but very ineffective air cassettes so that little or
no mold will be discovered. Air cassettes test too small of an air
sample [150 cubic liters for the most commonly-used cassette] to give a
truly accurate insight into a property's real mold infestation problems.
Direct sampling of visible molds and mold culture plates are vastly
superior to air cassettes in determining the extent of mold problems in
a property and in the identification of the molds present.
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If the
testing stooges uncover any mold problems, the serious mold test results
are not to be shared with the insureds and are to be kept a complete
secret forever from the insureds [this common insurance company fraud is
one of the causes of actions in the $20 million Ed McMahon lawsuit against
his homeowner's insurance company and its two insurance stooge testing and
remediation companies. The McMahon defendants kept secret mold test
results showing a serious mold infestation in the McMahon residence of the
deadly mold Stachybotrys.
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Telling insureds that there is no mold insurance coverage even though there is
evidence that insurance-covered water damage is the direct cause of the
resulting mold infestation.
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Ozone
schemes claim that tenting a home and then injecting massive amounts of
ozone gas into a home or other building will kill all of the mold in the
building. Ozone can only kill what it comes into contact with. Ozone
cannot get at, and thus cannot kill, mold growing INSIDE drywall, wall,
carpeting, upholstered furniture, wall cavities, ceiling cavities, and
floor cavities. Besides being ineffective at killing hidden mold [the
worst type], ozone readily damages all rubber and plastic parts it comes
into contact with such as rubber and plastic components of appliances,
electronics of all types, exposed electric lines and extension courts, and
hvac controls. Ozone is also unhealthy to humans according to the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. For information on
the
United States Court of Appeals for
the Sixth Circuit [one of the major appeals courts in USA] about
the ineffectiveness of ozone machines for mold and other indoor air
pollutants please visit:
Ozone is
ineffective in killing mold.
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House cooking
is when the mold scammers introduce large numbers of mold spores into the
home or other building, and then increase the temperature and humidity
[e.g., shut off air conditioning, close windows and run humidifiers full
blast] to cause high levels of detectable mold to justify expensive mold
remediation work. For a more detailed look at house cooking, please click
on:
House
Cooking.
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The mold
scammers will bring back to you mold test results showing big-time mold
problems in your home or property. Unfortunately for you, the mold samples
are NOT actually from your home but are, in fact, samples that had been
intentionally infected [inoculated] with large amounts of mold species
from other locations or from mold collections maintained by the scammers.
Many
fraudulent mold remediation jobs end with the mold problems as great or
greater than before the remediation work was done because of shortcuts
taken by the mold scammers and because of flawed remediation techniques,
procedures, and techniques utilized by the mold scammers who only care
about getting your money, rather than solving your family's mold crisis.
One big shortcut is that many mold remediators often rely on ineffective
but cheap chlorine bleach as an alleged mold killer. See the discussion on
chlorine bleach below.
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Many
mold remediation companies utilize cheap but ineffective chlorine bleach
as their preferred chemical to allegedly kill mold to cut corners and
costs in their mold remediation jobs. Unfortunately, chlorine bleach is
not an effective or lasting killer of mold and mold spores. Bleach is good
only for changing the color of the mold. Three weeks after treatment
with chlorine bleach, mold will return just as strong as before.
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It is
too diluted and thus too weak to permanently kill mold.
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What
little killing power chlorine bleach does have is diminished
significantly as the bleach sits in warehouses and on grocery store
shelves or in your house or business [50% loss in killing power in just
the first 90 days inside a never opened jug or container]. Chlorine
constantly escapes through the plastic walls of its containers.
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Its ion
structure prevents chlorine from penetrating into porous materials such
as drywall and wood --- it just stays on the outside surface, whereas
mold has enzyme roots growing inside the porous construction materials.
and
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Chlorine
Bleach is NOT registered with the EPA as a disinfectant to kill mold.
You can verify that important fact yourself when you are unable to find
an EPA registration number for killing mold on the label of any brand of
chlorine bleach.
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