We hear a lot in the media these days about the dangers of exposure to mold, but what is mold exactly? Mold is not a plant or an animal, but a type of fungi. We eat some types of fungi, like many kinds of mushrooms and the yeast we use to make bread rise. Some types of mold are even used to make medicine, like the type of mold that is used to make penicillin, a life-saving antibiotic. Other types of mold can be harmful to our health, however.

There are hundreds of different kinds of mold found both indoors and outdoors. Mold grows in damp, dimly-lit areas. Indoors, it can often be found in places like attics, basements, crawl spaces, and bathrooms. Mold is also common in other areas if there is a leak in the roof, leaky windows, leaky pipes, or seasonal flooding. Some molds commonly found indoors include aspergillus, chaetomium, cladosporium, penicillium, and stachybotrys (sometimes referred to as black mold, although many types of mold are black in colour). Mold thrives in areas that are moist and warm. Sometimes the mold growth can begin after an area has been wet, and it never dried completely. For example, if a basement is flooded and the carpet is never pulled up to allow the carpet and the padding to dry completely, then mold may start to grow under the carpet.

Common places for mold to grow include the bathroom, basement, or any area that may be exposed to moisture from a leak, such as under the sink, in the attic, or under a waterbed. Left untreated, mold has the potential to cause health related issues as well as serious cosmetic and structural damage to a property.

Mold is most often found in the following areas of the house.

Including the neighbourhoods of Agerton, Ash, Beaty, Blue Springs, Boyne, Brookville, Campbellville, Clarke, Darbyville, Dempsey, Drumquin, Guelph Junction, Haltonville, Hawthorne Village, Kelso, Moffat, Omagh, Peru, Sayers Mills, Scott, Timberlea and Wilmott.

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