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- To help direct home owners and businesses during cleanup efforts, IEHA, and its education partners share steps for preventing mold growth after a catastrophic flood.
- How can homeowners undo the mess and ensure their home is safe, clean, and livable once again?
- Where there's fire, there's usually smoke. Although experts do their best to contain a fire, they are all but helpless in controlling the billowing clouds of smoke that fire creates. What can you do once the damage has been done?
- In today’s fiscal climate, there is no shortage of often ill-qualified people offering to clean and restore your valuable possessions, but how do you determine who truly knows what they are doing – i.e., how do you tell the “Masters” from the “Jacks-of-all-Trades”? In a word: Certification.
- In many cases restoration can cost less than replacement.
- Life is full of surprises, and not all of them good! Depending on the severity of the incident, picking up the pieces and putting things back as they were can be a challenge many homeowners would rather avoid.
- Not every job requires professional assistance. However, when a professional is needed, not all professionals measure up. How can consumers choose whom to hire?
- Whether you are the victim of a flood or your plumbing sprang a leak while you're on vacation, the Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) offers some helpful suggestions on what to do.
- There are five general principles of cleaning up - or remediating - mold.
- The IICRC provides a consumer referral service to locate trained and certified cleaning and restoration firms and technicians.
- cleantrust-Certified technicians may use particle counters to help ensure your air is clean after mold cleanup.
- Infrared cameras, like infrared thermometers, are used to detect surface temperature differences: here's how they help cleantrust-Certified experts ensure your home is dry after a flood or other water incident.
- Why many cleantrust-Certified professionals use moisture meters during and after completion of flood cleanup or other water restoration.
- Key facts homeowners should know about handling sewage back-ups.
- Identify the source and attack it intelligently.
- The new reference guide, which provides updates to the standard originally released in 2003, will help cleaning professionals provide high-quality service, and assist consumers in finding qualified firms to perform remediation.
- The non-profit IICRC continues to reach out to consumers, insurance companies, and government agencies to raise awareness of the value of using well trained, certified technicians and firms to perform restoration and remediation work.
- Hannah Keeley offers this first installment in her Healthy Home series about hidden dangers in your home — and what to do about them.
- It's dark, it's dangerous, and it's alive....
- Research shows radar technology could save serious money in mold damage.