We Offer Solutions for Your Mold Issues

1/9/2020 (Permalink)

Our team took on a restoration job that involved a 18-Wheeler freight trailer carrying mold contaminated cardboard tubes.

No surface is safe from mold.

That includes metal. Since metal is not porous, removing mold from its surface is not difficult. Metal items are usually salvageable. The sooner you remove the mold, the fewer the chances it will spread to contaminate other, less durable items.

The team at SERVPRO of West Brown County received a mold restoration job involving an 18-wheeler freight trailer full of pallets with cardboard shipping tubes, each filled with various metal components. Our highly trained technicians were more than ready to tackle this task effectively and efficiently as possible.

Typically, we deal with residential and commercial mold infestations but have handled many requests for services that require a professional restoration company to make sure the job is done up to health code standards.

The process of adequately handling mold begins with an inspection and damage assessment. In this instance, the mold was visible. It was our job to detect how many items inside the freight trailer was affected in order to begin the next stage, which is containment.

There are several measures we take to prevent the spread of mold. Again, this was not a typical job we see every week. However, it is still essential to follow the proper protocol, which is to isolate the contaminated area to keep the mold spores from spreading during the cleanup process.

With our extensive line of SERVPRO cleaning products, our team carefully handled each medal piece to eliminate mold colonies and took precautionary measures to prevent new colonies from forming on the parts. 

Mold cannot be removed entirely from cardboard. In this instance, the solution was to prevent further spreading of the mold by eliminating all of the contaminated cardboard tubes. Once we discarded each tube, the metal parts were inserted into a new cardboard cylinder then placed onto one of our pallets.

As you can see from the pictures, our team members did a great job of handling this customer's mold dilemma.

If you ever find yourself with a unique mold situation and have questions regarding the issue, feel free to contact SERVPRO of West Brown County at (920) 434-8224.