Can Mold Develop in Areas That Don't Have Light? | Georgia Mold Lawyer | Toxic Mold Lawyers

Mold Firm

Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with a long-time friend and owner of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. Richard Johnson: My name is Richard Johnson, and I'm the President/CEO of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. Oh yeah, we find mold damage, spores are everywhere in small quantities, but if the environment is right to grow them they will start to grow. An example of not needing light, certainly in wall cavities would be a good example about that, but another place is behind wallpaper, particularly vinyl wallpaper on an exterior wall, there's in enough moisture from the condensation, if that wall is not well insulated, to form moisture on the back of the vinyl wallpaper. And the mold will grow in the glue of the wallpaper and then that could wind up having adverse effects on the air quality as well. As far as in growing water in the wall cavities, let's say you have a leak above a window or something and it gets into the wall cavity and you wind up having mold growth in the insulation, say in the wall cavity or outside the board or the backside of the drywall or whatever, all houses share air with the outside to some extent no matter how much we try to seal them up. As an example of you turn the bathroom fan on and you're exhausting air out, that air has to come from somewhere or it's going to collapse the house. So all houses have some breathing and when it comes in through the wall and it comes in under the framing or something like that or through the wall, whatever's in that wall cavity can in fact come into the indoor environment. So It definitely has a path into the indoor environment from the exterior. And the same way with interior walls, an example of how it can happen that way is if the HVAC system is not well balanced, you'll have air that has to come from somewhere and can leak into the other rooms from underneath the floors and stuff. If you have light colored carpeting you're gonna have a dark area around the outside of the room showing how the air flow is actually coming through the wall sections into other parts of the house.