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54:26Join Mandii B and Weezy WTF as they navigate the evolution of their podcasting journey in this candid and hilarious episode of “Decisions, Decisions.” Reflecting on nearly a decade of bold conversations, the duo opens up about the challenges and triumphs of rebranding their iconic show, previously known as “WHOREible Decisions.” Dive into their reasoning behind the name change, their growth as individuals, and the dynamics of creating space for nontraditional relationships and personal self-love. This episode features thought-provoking discussions on societal norms, reclaiming identity, and the complexities of managing a brand that champions inclusivity while addressing the limitations of media algorithms. From celibacy and creative reinvention to navigating life changes and unconventional lifestyles, Mandy and Weezy offer raw, unfiltered takes that will keep you engaged and inspired. Follow the hosts on social media Weezy @Weezywtf & Mandii B @Fullcourtpumps and follow the Decisions Decisions pages Instagram @_decisionsdecisions Don't forget to tag #decisionsdecisions or @ us to let us know what you think of this week's episode! Want more? Bonus episodes, merch and more Whoreible Decisions!! Become a Patron at Patreon.com/whoreibledecisions See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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×1 What If Your Mold Problem is Coming from a Common Area Problem? | Toxic Mold Attorney | David Carter 1:08
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1 Do Air Purifiers Eliminate Mold? | What Do The Filter Ratings Mean For Mold Spores? | Mold Firm 3:24
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with 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. Well the best thing is a good filter in the HVAC system. They have ratings on filters that can describe how small of a particulate it can capture and including mold spores, because mold spores are basically a particulate. A filter with the equivalent of a MERV8 rating will capture a particulate down as small as 3 microns. Now, most mold spores are 3 microns or higher, aspergillus, penicillium for instance are in the 3.3 micron range, stachybotrys is around 5 microns. So if you have at least a MERV8 filter in your furnace, you're going to be reducing the amount of mold spores that are in the air. It's not going to eliminate them, but it'll be healthier. If you're looking for the background particulate due to the deterioration of the indoor environment, there we recommend at least a MERV10 filter because that'll go down to 1 micron. And that will help filter out some of the background particulate as well. The problem that we see in Atlanta, there are no regulations on what kind of filters that the HVAC system should have, as a result, the vast majority of all of the places that we go into where they're having respiratory problems have these fiberglassy, see-through filters that are statistically equivalent to no filter at all when it comes to helping the indoor air quality. And it's particularly true in apartment buildings where we see that the filters are useless in terms of filtering any of these kinds of materials out of the air. Carson Jeffries: Some things tenants and homeowners can do, or landlords, to reduce the probability for unhealthy particulates or mold would include: better filtration, proper maintenance of HVAC units, and elimination of excess moisture such as leaks, pipe bursts, things of that nature. Richard Johnson: Absolutely, water is not your friend in the built environment. If you have any kind of a situation where you have some real high humidity or causing that kind of thing in the indoor environment, you have a serious problem. And it doesn't have to be directly in the indoor environment if it's a home for instance, that has a crawl space, the crawl space is not conditioned or filtered and all that kind of thing, so you have a perfect environment for a lot of mold growth. And then a lot of these places have the furnace in the crawl space and if the furnace is not well sealed, to completely isolate the air from the crawl space from the home, what happens is you have this breeding ground for mold and that kind of stuff gets drawn into the HVAC system and then broadcast out through the entire home.…
1 Are You Broadcasting Mold Into The Air In Your Home? | Georgia Toxic Mold Attorneys | Mold Firm 4:05
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with 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. We do have data because we've done thousands and thousands of these samples over the years. We have data that we can say, if the amount of mold spores in the carpet is normal, if they tend to be water damage spores or if they tend to be what they call phylloplane spores, which are much less likely to have some kind of a problem and we can give some guidance. In carpet dust for instance there's only three things you can do with a carpet, you can vacuum it, with a HEPA filter, if you don't use a HEPA filter vacuum, you're just going to broadcast it out into the air, and even with the HEPA filter vacuum, some of that stuff is going to get out into the air, the real fine particulate in spores. Or you can clean the carpet. Or you can replace the carpet. And we put instructions in there if you're gonna replace it, how to treat the floor underneath it ahead of time, if you're gonna clean it, what kind of stuff you should use to clean it and how you should handle that. And the fact of the HEPA filter vacuum and that kind of stuff if you're gonna vacuum it. So that's one of the kinds of sampling that we do and we tell them how to handle the carpet, but more importantly we find out what else is going on in the environment from that, that we can tell them about. Another kind of sampling that can be done in addition to air samples and the carpet dust samples is a tape sample. We have a slide which has some adhesive on it and we can take the cover off and place it on a surface and then take that and examine it, similar to the way we examine a slide that's in the air sample set. And we can identify to the genus level what's on that surface. If you're trying to identify a particular kind of mold on the wall, just to the common names that you hear like aspergillus or penicellium, you can take that sample and you can identify it. And what you learn from that is what's on that square inch that you've sampled, it doesn't tell you anything about a foot away or two feet away or something else that might be in the room but if you're trying to identify what's a particular thing and try to tie it together with what else you're finding that can be a useful sample. To be able to go in and use that sample though to say that the house is mold-free or something like that is not accurate. The other kind of samples we take, we can take a swab sample. The purpose of the swab sample is if you want to get to the species level of a particular mold type. Things like aspergillus and penicillium, that we can see in the air have perhaps 200 different species between the two of them and different species have different health characteristics that I mentioned, from the headaches and the respiratory and the allergy things that we find in the carpet dust, that's done at the species level. So if you go and you take a tape sample, you can't identify the species, you can say if it's aspergillus or penicillium, but you can't say what species it is. Carson Jeffries: So there's different types of aspergillus and penicillium? Richard Johnson: Absolutely, there's a couple hundred different kinds. And so with a swab, if you take a swab on a surface, you can take the swab and put it into a dilution and you culture that and then you can identify it to the species level to find out some of the health characteristics.…
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.…
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with 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. When we talk to a client on the phone when they call us, it is to understand what their questions are and what their concerns are and then we will come up with a sampling strategy to answer their questions, and it would be at that point that we would decide whether or not just knowing what the genus level name is, like aspergillus or penicillium, will be adequate or if they need to go more deeply and learn about these species. It is more expensive to do a species analysis than it is to do something to the genus level in the analysis. And cost is always a concern, that's a trade-off between what you're learning and the cost of doing it. We look at it as if we're painting a picture and every sample that we take adds a color, adds a line, adds some detail that allows you to understand what the picture is. So we have to understand what we're looking for to begin with and then we can design a sampling strategy that we believe will give us enough information to make out what the picture is without necessarily incurring the cost of making a Rembrandt or some very expensive set of sampling. Carson: So it sounds like when you do comprehensive testing, a combination both of air samples, surface samples, carpet dust samples as well as development of those samples in your labs, you develop a more comprehensive picture of not only the amount and types of spores but also their health effects in their particular species. Richard: Yes, that's absolutely correct. We learned something from each of the pieces of information we do. Another thing that we make a point of doing is in discussing the sampling strategy with the client before we go there. We try to learn as much as we can that they have, in terms of their experience and the things that they know about, to help fill-in pieces of the puzzle to know what we're looking for and to make sure that we're sampling in the areas that are important. Carson: Yeah, and I know Richard from our end, we will occasionally be approached by clients. And maybe as you alluded to, we’ll go with more limited sampling from maybe another environmental company that is charging them, maybe half as much, and I tell those clients, unfortunately, that when we’re analyzing their case, the report either because it doesn't have any written findings or because of the limited sampling just doesn't provide the information necessary to move forward with the case. And then what the client finds themselves in the situation of, unfortunately, is having to get a mold report – the initial mold report – and then having to come to a company like Air Allergen for more comprehensive report, so they end up paying twice in the end. Richard: That's really true and that is always a struggle especially if people have incurred a lot of medical bills or something and are financially strapped as a result of it. The tendency would be too well, “Can I get by with just an air sampler? Can I get by with a tape sampler?” And we discourage that because what we have found, you can go into a home, we've been fooled before ourselves, you know, even doing. You go into a home, take an air sample, looks okay and then you take a carpet dust sample and you find out that even though it was okay at the time that you took the air sample, they’ve had a history of problems that have not shown up in the air sample. So doing a more comprehensive inspection and taking enough samples to really understand what's going on in the environment is very important. Otherwise you're going to be making choices that you either might be doing less than what you need to do or you might be doing more than what you need to do.…
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with 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. We not only provide the report from the laboratory. And a lot of inspectors will just provide that report, and they enhance it, they call it their expanded report and they'll put some colored graphs in there and that kind of thing. But they honestly in many cases don't fully explain where it might be coming from. And, if they do say where it's coming from, they don't necessarily say what to do about it to take care of it. And, presuming that everyone is operating honestly and professionally and all that kind of thing, in trying to deal with these things, we find a lot of times when we do clearance test these things after work had been done that they have not passed. And almost every single time when that happens we say, “Well, did you take this step that we outlined in there, you know, did you take this step, did you encapsulate it afterwards, did you vacuum it off, and that kind of thing?” And they say, “Well, no. you know, I didn't do that. Here's what I did.' And they don't take the proper steps. We put the proper steps in our report about how to do that, and we put remediation guidelines and safety precautions in there if things are needed, so the people can protect themselves from it. A common kind of a thing that's not well known or not talked about a lot is someone will have some mold on the wall where there's been a leak, potentially from maybe another unit or something in the bathroom on the other side of the wall or something on that unit. And so they'll take bleach and they'll clean it with it. And then a few days later, they'll have mold growing there and they'll say, “I don't know what to do, I put bleach on it, it killed it all, I cleaned it all up and then a few days later we had more mold.” Well, what's happening is that the bleach will kill the mold, but the spores are very, very difficult to kill. If you use chemicals strong enough to kill spores, you're probably going to harm the people or the few chemicals that are involved. Most of them are harmful to the people. So when you clean a surface like that, bleach is not a good alternative because it'll kill the mold, it doesn't kill the spores. The chlorine, having a lower vapor pressure than the water, will evaporate first. It leaves the water and that's all that the spores need to start to grow again. So it didn't come back because it was the same mold, it came back because you left the conditions there to grow new mold. And whether or not the spores were left there, which is most likely, or whether they landed there from being in the air and found a convenient place to grow, you wind up with mold growing back again. So bleach on porous materials is not a good alternative, but oftentimes when we talk particularly with tenants, the landlords or the maintenance people will say, “Hey, we'll go just put some bleach on it and everything will be wonderful.” Carson: Yeah, my clients hear that all the time. So not only is the bleach not effective in killing the mold long-term, but it can actually exacerbate the problem. Richard: That's exactly right, because you're adding water into the environment.…
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with 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. As I've mentioned before, we can imply some things about pest control, for instance, that might be in there. We can learn if there's likely to be some chemical collision in the indoor environment. In some cases, we can read that into it. If we know that, let's say, we know there's visible mold and you have a real low airborne count, but you know it's being suppressed for some reason. We can tell something from the symptoms that the people say is whether or not there can be. Carson: What do you mean suppressed, Richard? Richard: I mean that they maybe growing and they maybe causing the chemicals to be done and toxins and that kind of stuff to be contained, but they may not be sporiating into particular time that were there because the growth pattern’s being suppressed on the mold. So you can have a hazardous health concern but it won't show up in the air sample. Carson: So you're saying that different conditions may change the spore profile and the residence in any given time? Richard: Yes. Yeah, it's a snapshot in time. It can vary from hour to hour and day to day. That's why a more complete analysis, including the carpet dust analysis, is really important when you're trying to do an investigation and fill out the entire picture of what might be going on.…
1 Is the Furniture in My Home Something I Should Be Concerned About? | Toxic Mold Attorney Atlanta 2:43
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with 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. We can do a similar kind of sampling that we do in the carpet for furniture. We have a portable vacuum with a special nozzle and a special gasket that will be able to capture the dust that contains the mold spores. We can vacuum that furniture and we can learn something about it in terms of the quantity of spores that are on there and whether or not they’re likely to be growing at that time or not. If it's a fabric, we're measuring the dust that has settled down into the fabric. If we're looking at the framing where it's been water damaged in the bottom, there we would maybe take a tape sample or swab to find out whether there's mold growth that's associated with water damage. We can learn about that in terms of furniture by taking those samples. Our database isn't that complete in the furniture side of it as it is in the carpet dust, but we can imply, based on what we seen in the carpet dust, to what we see in the furniture to give some guidance as to whether or not it's likely that can be cleaned up or whether it should be discarded. Carson: In certain cases, you may find that a tenant or a homeowner should not be moving property from the mold contaminated residence to a new mold-free residence? Richard: Yes, in some cases that would be true. Carson: And let me ask you, are there certain spores that can develop on the property that could cause health defects if that personal property was moved to a new location, say, a large upholster couch? Richard: Well, yes, because any of the spores that would be in that couch, if the conditions are right, are going to grow. If they grow, they're putting those spores out into the air. And those spores that are already into the air, if they find another place to grow as well, the more places that they can find in an environment that they can grow in, they can continue to reproduce.…
1 Do Different Mold Species Require Different Amounts of Moisture? | Atlanta Toxic Mold Lawyers 1:15
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. Absolutely, we can tell by the kind of molds that are in the environment whether or not they have had problems with high humidity, for instance. Because all mold needs to grow is oxygen, food, and moisture. And if you can hold the humidity down below around fifty percent, you're going to retard the growth of almost all mold spores. But that's just not possible here in Atlanta, unless you use dehumidifiers, particularly during the summertime. So, in most homes, the environment for growing mold is there all summer long. Sometimes from April to November, they have an environment that mold can grow in.…
We absolutely try to identify that, if we see that there's circumstances, and we often learn why we're there is because that there's a suspected mold problem, whether it be a leak in the wall or whether there has been a leak in the wall. So under those circumstances, if we're looking to see whether that has an effect, we can take air samples inside the wall cavity, we can take samples on surfaces, we take air samples and other samples that might be related to that, we could take bulk samples back to the lab and have them analyzed. So we absolutely can do that and try to help that. But, even beyond that we can tell them the nature of the kinds of leaks and the kinds of problems that are associated with that. For instance, if it's a toilet backup, they could have a sewage type backup. There's guidelines that are published by the EPA or the CDC. If that happens on a carpet, that carpet should be replaced. Anything that's a porous material, if you can replace it, it should be replaced. If it's a material like the plywood on the floor or underneath the carpet or something like that that you can't necessarily replace, then it should be treated properly and sealed and encapsulated and that kind of thing before you put it back together. So we can provide some of that information – about how to properly prepare it as part of our investigation and part of our report. One of the other things that we're finding when we find damage like that and especially if they've gone in and they've done some sheet rock work or done some other kinds of work. A lot of times we hear stories that, "Well, they've come in and they've done this and I'm still having these health symptoms." The background particulate in the air is a really important part of indoor air quality health and it's a really overlooked part. I don't understand exactly why because there's literally hundreds, if not thousands, of studies globally about the problem that background particulate provide causes for breathing difficulties and other things in the indoor environment. But when you're doing drywall work and all that kind of stuff, the particles, the dust and stuff that's in the air is going to spike. And those can cause serious health issues also, especially with breathing difficulties. And the way that you get that out of the air is with filtration. Again, it goes back to what we've found on these HVAC systems, which is your primary source of filtration for the indoor environment. The filters that they have in those are statistically equivalent to no filter at all when it comes to particles as such small as respirable particulate. And that's the one that causes the big damage. So people can be exposed to this background particulate, either from work that's being done or from deterioration in the indoor environment due to some of the damage that has been done that doesn't show up in most reports – some of the reports will show that it's 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 on some kind of a scale like that. And some of them refer to it that, whether or not this is likely to cause enough debris on the slide to prevent an accurate count of the particulate. But they're not looking at the particulate itself as a health cause to the individual. We actually do a statistical count in at least three cells to give an idea of what the background particulate is in the indoor environment. We find that the background particulate indoors is most often much higher than outdoors. And in some cases, much much higher. To give you an equivalent, see, we took air samples from 56 locations that were taken during the code yellow and code red we have because of the fires up north. And in those air samples, about 24% of the samples had particulate levels above 200,000.…
1 Are There Molds That Are More Indicative of a Structural Problem? | Atlanta Toxic Mold Attorney 1:40
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with 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. Yes, absolutely, things like blue claydium, trichoderma, chaetomium, and stachybotrys, those are all associated with deterioration of the drywall and other materials in the home associated with high water activity. So when we see those, we know that there's more likely to be some kind of a health risk in that home than other things. Carson: Okay, so what I'm understanding generally is, there's a lot more that homeowners should be concerned about than just your basic black mold. Richard: Well there really is. And it really leads into another area of indoor air quality, which is indicative, or we find when we find the deteriorating conditions, is that we find a lot higher particulate count in the air of things like cellulose materials that comes as a result of the drywall becoming deteriorated and putting materials out into the air. And high background particulate levels can be just as much of a respiratory problem than the mold spores themselves.…
1 Can Mold Issues Continue to Persist in the Future w/out Environmental Report? | Mold Lawyer Atlanta 3:06
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with 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. That's absolutely correct. If you don't have a clear enough picture of everything that's going on that needs to be addressed, you're not going to address those things that you don't know about. And so it will go on in the future. Carson: You know Richard, I always liken to my clients the situation where maybe they've got a problem with a contractor that maybe installed a roof improperly leading to water leak or they've got a landlord who has allowed water to penetrate to the unit or maybe a leaking HVAC unit. And the clients will call me and they'll say, "The landlord sent a couple maintenance workers over and maybe they removed a piece of drywall and repatched it or maybe they sprayed it with bleach." The question I always ask my clients is, “Isn't this a lot like taking your car to the mechanic and just verbally telling him what you think the problem is, and then him ordering parts before he has even diagnosed the problem?” Richard: Yeah, it is really true. And that's absolutely correct. And you can know more, understand the effect that all this can have on – let's say you have a leak in the wall or some area like that – if you have water in that system, the indoor air humidity is going to be elevated. That humidity can cause problems in other places that you don't have any idea of what's going on, and you can't visually determine that any more than you can look at a glass of water and find out if there's harmful chemicals in it. They're of a quantity that are small in size and nature, but over a period of time can have adverse health effects for you. Carson: So I might have invisible leak in the attic of my home creating excess humidity that's creating a mold problem in the downstairs living room. Richard: That's exactly correct. Carson: And there's no way that I or any maintenance worker or any contractor would know that unless they did proper environmental testing. Richard: That's exactly correct. Sometimes people call and say, "Well, can you just come out and take a look and tell us, you know, whether or not this is a thing?" We tell them the same thing. We can't tell any more than anybody else can until we take the samples and really find out what is there. Because the spores – you can't see much below twenty microns and the spores are in the three to five micron range. You're just not going to be able to detect them, visually.…
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with 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. Absolutely true. I mean, you can't walk into a house and say what's in the carpet dust, for instance. But the carpet dust and the mold in the carpet dust in particular, has been shown to be very strong indicator of health risks. For instance, there's a study out of the, well, the whole ERMI environment where the mold in the Moldiness Index was based on the mold spores that were found in carpet dust. Carson: And that's from the EPAs, is that correct? Richard: That's correct. That was funded by the EPA. It was done in the 90s. It was done and demonstrated at that time that there was an association between what was found in the carpet dust, if it was more moldy than average based on their index compared to not, that they were associated with health concerns. More recently there has been other studies that have used that as a measure. One of the ones that I've found to be most definitive is one done by the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. And what they did was, they took the ERMI index and if you're more moldy than average based on what spores were found in your carpet and these were for children that were treated in the emergency room at least twice in the previous year, or hospitalized once in the previous year, and then diagnosed with asthma. So, they went into the homes and they did this ERMI test. They took those that were shown to be more moldy than average, and they divided them into two groups. They went in and cleaned the one group and took out the moldy materials and cleaned the surfaces and everything, places that they couldn't see. And they didn't do anything in the other group - the control group. And in the ten months following that study, there was a tenfold reduction in the emergency room visits and hospitalizations from the group that they cleaned up, compared to the group that they didn't. There was a similar study up in Chicago that showed a sixty-five percent reduction in the group that they took the moldy materials out and cleaned everything out. Then there was another study in Boston, in New York, that showed a ninety percent reduction, but they include pest control as well. It brings up another issue that we're talking about when we're talking about leaks as, for instance, from water damage in something. The thing that attracts pests is moisture or water. So, if you're not controlling water like, from lakes and stuff, you're far more likely to have pests, whether they'd be crickets, or spiders, or cockroaches, or rodents – they are all looking for moisture. Controlling any kind of leaks like that will reduce the incidents of those things as well. So, the kinds of environment that the people are living in have a great deal to do not - the mold that we use is a good indicator of whether or not it's a healthy environment, but it can affect so many more things than just the mold by dealing with that environment.…
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with 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. There are some studies that suggest that outdoor spores are perhaps as much as ten times higher in the summer times as the winter times. We find that there’s a variation in the indoor but because the indoor temperature and humidity is more likely to be more stable than it is outdoor, we don’t see that much of a variation but we do see a difference between the mold growth in the wintertime from what you would see in the summertime. So if we see something near our guidelines in the wintertime, we know that’s the best that’s gonna get. And we know that as time goes on in the summertime, it’s gonna get a lot worse. So if it looks like it’s on the border of a problem in the wintertime, we say, “Hey, it’s really a problem.” In the summertime, if it’s very close to our guidelines and there’s no other factors to influence it, we know that that’s the worse it’s gonna get. And probably it’s gonna get better in the wintertime as the nature’s portion of what can affect it will affect it. Now, that won’t make a difference in terms if you have water damage, if you have a leak from a dripping something, a plumbing leak in the wall or if a washer overflows or your toilet overflows or something like that. It’s not going to affect that because that’s strictly an indoor event and whether it’s got humidity outside or not, it’s not going to make a big difference.…
1 What Steps Could a Homeowner Take to Minimize Background Particulate Matter? | Mold Firm Atlanta 3:24
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with 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. The best thing is a good filter in the HVAC system. They have ratings on filters that can describe how small of a particulate can capture and including mold spores because mold spores basically a particulate. A filter with the equivalent of MERV 8 rating will capture particulate down as small as 3 microns. Most mold spores are 3 microns or higher. Aspergillus and Penicillium, for instance, are in the 3.3 micron range, stachybotrys is around 5 microns. So if you have at least a MERV 8 filtering furnace, you're going to be reducing the amount of mold spores that are in the air. It's not going to eliminate them but it'll be healthier. If you're looking for the background particulate to the deterioration of the indoor environment there we recommend at least a MERV 10 filter because that will go down to 1 micron. And that will help filter out some of the background particulates as well. The problem that we see in Atlanta, there are no regulations of what kind of filters that the HVAC system should have. As a result, the vast majority of all of the places that we go into where they're having respiratory problems have these fiberglassy, see-through filters that are statistically equivalent to no filter at all when it comes to helping the indoor air quality. And it’s particularly true in apartment buildings, where we see that the filters are – they're useless in terms of filtering any of these kind materials out of the air. Carson: Things that tenants and homeowners can do or landlords to reduce the probability for unhealthy particulates or mold would include better filtration, proper maintenance of the HVAC units and elimination of excess moisture such as leaks, pipe bursts, things like that. Richard: Absolutely. Water is not your friend in a built-in environment. If you have any kind of a situation where you have some really high humidity or causing that kind of thing in the indoor environment, you have a serious problem. And it doesn't have to be directly in the indoor environment. If it's a home, for instance, that has a crawl space, the crawl space is not conditioned or filtered and all that kind of thing. You have a perfect environment for a lot of mold growth. Then a lot of these places have the furnace in the crawl space. And if the furnace is not well sealed, it completely isolates the air from the crawl space from the home. What happens is, you have this breeding ground for mold and that kind of stuff gets drawn into the HVAC system, then broadcast out through the entire home.…
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with 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. We do have data because we've done thousands and thousands of these samples over the years. We have data that we can say, if the amount of mold spores in the carpet is normal, if they tend to be water damage spores, or if they tend to be what we called phylloplane spores, which are much less likely to have some kind of a problem, and we can give some guidances in carpet dust, for instance. There's only three things you can do with a carpet – you can vacuum it with a HEPA filter vacuum, if you don't use a HEPA filter vacuum, it's just going to broadcast it out into the air, and even with HEPA filter vacuum, some of that stuff is going to get out into the air. That's the real fine particulate spores. Or you can clean the carpet. Or you can replace the carpet. And we put instructions in there, if you're going to replace it, how to treat the floor and underneath it ahead of time. If you're going to clean it, what kind of stuff you should use to clean it and how you should handle that. And the fact that the HEPA filter vacuum and that kind of stuff if you're going to vacuum it. That's one of the kinds of sampling that we do. We tell them how to handle the carpet, but more importantly we find out what else is going on in the environment from that, that we can tell them about. Another kind of sampling that can be done in addition to air samples and the carpet dust samples, is a tape sample. We have a slide which has some, adhesive on it and we can take the cover off and place it on a surface. And then take that and examine it, similar to the way examine a slide that's in the air sample. We can identify to the genus level what's on that surface. If you're trying to identify a particular kind of mold on the wall, just to the common names that you hear, like Aspergillus or Penicillium. You can take that sample and you can identify it. And what you learn from that is what's on that square inch that you've sampled. It doesn't tell you anything about a foot away or two feet away or something else that might be in the room. But if you're trying to identify what's particular thing and try to tie it together with what else you're finding, that can be a useful sample. To be able to go in and use that sample, though they would say that their house is mold-free or something like that, is not accurate. The other kind of samples we take – we can take a swab sample. The purpose of the swab sample is if you want to get to the species level of a particular mold type. Things like Aspergillus and Penicillium that we can see in the air, have perhaps 200 different species between the two of them. And different species have different health characteristics as I've mentioned from the headaches and the respiratory and the allergy things that we find in the carpet dust. That's done at the species level. If you go and you take a tape sample, you can identify the species. You can say if it's Aspergillus or Penicillium, but you can't say what species it is. Carson: There's different types of Aspergillus and Penicillium? Richard: Absolutely. There's a couple of hundred different kinds. And so with a swab, if you take a swab on a surface, you could take the swab and put it into a dilution and you can culture that. And then you can identify it to the species level to find out some of the health care characteristics.…
1 What Do Air Allergen Clients Generally Complain About | Environmental Report | Mold Attorney Atlanta 5:25
There’s three things that may really relate to mold and that is if you see it, obviously that's an issue; if you can smell it, the odor that's given off, the musty odor that you smell from homes or in homes are the gases that are given off while mold is metabolizing whatever it's growing on. So if you smell that smell, mold is growing somewhere; and the third thing is any kind of health symptoms particularly that are associated with the respiratory system, whether you're having sinus problems, whether you're having any kind of breathing issues. But it's not limited to that – mold problems go far greater than that for a variety of reasons. One of the reasons is that 70% of those who have asthma also have allergies. They have allergies to the mold spores and when you have, and a lot of people have allergies, you don't have to have asthma to have these allergies, when those get into your windpipe and your respiratory system, you get this redness and swelling just like you would get on your skin if you have your skin broke out some way. And that impairs the mucus system from working properly and those little areas that are rough like that become places where bacteria and viruses can get into your system and cause other kinds of diseases. There are some studies that suggest that between 10 - 30% of all diseases associated with particulate are associated with indoor air. The other way that it can harm you is that, in sufficient quantities, these spores that carry these toxins, they get down into the, they're small enough to get into the alveolar where the oxygen is exchanged with your blood and your body will break those up and then those toxins go out into your blood and they can go to other organs in your system as well and cause damage elsewhere. The other thing that we're finding, some recent studies have shown that there was one study that looked at data from 14 states and concluded that 90% of the dust in those homes that were studied contained chemicals that were considered to be unhealthy chemicals. 90% of them contained 1 of 10 chemicals, including one of the chemicals that was a carcinogen, a known carcinogen. Mr. Jeffries: OK. Mr. Johnson: And some of the mold spores are known carcinogens as well. We've done an analysis on carpet dust that we have separated. We keep track of symptoms in the same database that we keep track of the findings in the lab and that makes us kind of unique because we're one of the only inspection companies in the country that has our own lab. So we can tailor the lab reports that we're getting to what we feel like we need to find in the field to help people with their measuring their indoor air quality, including the different kinds of mold and we break it down whether they're likely to be from outdoors or indoor-outdoors or water damage spores, we break down in our reports. But it provides us the other opportunity to mine that data over a period of time. And what we've done is take in symptoms, like headaches, and we've looked at what we find in the carpet dust. And we've divided the people that the number of homes that had a particular type of mold spore that said they had headaches, with the people that didn't say they had headaches. And what we find if there's a positive number, you're more likely to find those in an environment where people are suffering from headaches. We found that there's about 25 spore types that were positive for that ratio for what we found in the carpet dust. We've done the same thing for allergies and we've done the same thing for respiratory problems and each of them had something in the mid-20s that different spore types were associated but when you look at all the health symptoms that we have found, and we've taken those ratios for all of the different spore types that we've found, about 62 of the 70 spore types that were found in any quantity were associated with, were found more often in homes where there were one of the health symptoms that we track.…
1 Is Having a Pest Problem an Indication to Have an Environmental Inspection? | Atlanta Molds Attorney 1:09
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with 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. That's absolutely true. And another example that might be related to what we find with mold or not mold that has to do with humidity because if you have a high mold growth you're going to have a humidity problem. Dust mites, as an example. Dust mites absorb their moisture through their exoskeleton, if you can hold the humidity down around fifty percent or so, you're [sic] not enough moisture for the dust mites to absorb the moisture they need to survive, and gradually the dust mites in things like the carpeting and that kind of thing, are going to disappear, over about eight weeks or more.…
1 What Signs Should You Look For If You Think You May Have a Mold Problem in Your Home? | Mold Firm 1:15
Georgia Mold Lawyer - Visit us today at http://moldfirm.com/mold-problems/ or call 404-341-MOLD (6653). In this segment, Mold Attorney Carson Jeffries and Richard Johnson answer, "What Signs to Look For If You Think You May Have a Mold Problem?". Carson: 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: My name is Richard Johnson, and I'm the President/CEO of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. Eventually, it will get so bad that you could have some visible signs. But in general, going into an environment and trying to see whether there is a problem, on the microscopic level that mold spores are, you cannot see mold spores. You can see mold, but the spores are like the fruit of the mold, and you can't, you just can't see them, they're just too small. It makes no more sense to be able to walk into an environment and think that you can see the minor quantities of things that are in the air than it does to say you can look at a glass of water and tell whether there's any kind of pollutants in the water. They're just beyond the ability to do that. Exposure to Toxic Mold or Black Mold can be extremely dangerous to your health and those around you. It can occur in homes, schools or other buildings with chronic dampness, water intrusion, poor construction, or high humidity and may or not be visible. Toxic Mold regularly develops as a result of inaction on behalf of building owners, landlords, contractors. You should not have to suffer the consequences of Mold problems because of someone's negligence. Our Mold Remediation law firm will quickly assess your situation to determine the proper course of action. We will address the medical issues, the property damage, handle claims for construction defect, claims for landlord / homeowners association maintenance failure as well as zoning violations. We will work to get you the compensation you deserve. NOTICE: You are not a client of this law firm and we do not represent you unless you have a signed attorney/client agreement with this law firm. No duties or privileged relationships are intended to be created by this communication where they do not otherwise exist. Mold Firm 404-341-MOLD (6653) http://moldfirm.com/ https://www.facebook.com/moldfirm/ https://twitter.com/moldfirm https://www.pinterest.com/moldfirm/ http://www.slideshare.net/moldfirm https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmv_p-renBMXNQe7yeJJ5IQ…
Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with 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. Black mold as it's usually used, refers to a particular kind of stachybotrys spores. The problem with black mold - it's true that black mold - stachybotrys, particularly stachybotrys chartarum, a particular species of it, can have multiple kinds of toxins associated with them. Just because you have stachybotrys, doesn't necessarily mean you have those toxins, because it depends a lot on the growing conditions. But stachybotrys is an indication of conditions that are unhealthy in the indoor environment for a variety of reasons. And so, the presence of stachybotrys is really a huge red flag that there's a serious problem in that environment. But there are a lot of other spores that have other toxins associated with them that can be just as much of a problem. And they're found far more commonly in the indoor environment, particularly various species of aspergillus or penicillium. Aspergillus and penicillium are some of the most common spores we find in the indoor air. Water damage spores like stachybotrys, and there's a half of dozen of them or so, we usually find them in about five percent of the outdoor samples. We find them in about twenty percent of the indoor samples. But aspergillus and penicillium often make up as much as eighty percent of the spores that we find in the indoor air. There are far higher quantities of aspergillus and penicillium and they can have a lot more damaging toxins associated with them, because of the quantities. The other thing that we're finding in the indoor air environment is that an air sample is typically a snapshot of time. And if it doesn't happen to be that, let's say you have stachybotrys growing on your drywall, they aren't necessarily throwing the spores out into the air where you can measure them in the indoor air. Until they tend to dry out and get powdery, then they can get some spores out into the air. But the water damage spores are more likely to hold their spores during the time that they're actually growing. So, you can't tell it from an indoor air sample. Particularly where we find the history of intermittent events, not just a snapshot of the moment, but we find the history is in the carpet dust. And in the carpet dust we can culture and we can, we put it in a series of eight different petri dishes with different agar and incubate them at different temperatures so we can recover whatever is in there. One of the problems in recovering stachybotrys, which is, we talked about being the black mold, is most agar will not support the growth of stachybotrys. We have an agar that will do that and in fact it's an agar that was patented by our lab director, some many years ago, called this SSI agar. We can use that to recover stachybotrys if in fact it is in the carpet dust. Carson: So, if I'm hearing you correctly, tenants or homeowners should be concerned if stachybotrys is discovered, because the presence of stachybotrys indicates high water levels, and likely the presence of even more harmful mold. Richard: That's exactly right. Even if the quantity of stachybotrys itself is in low amounts, it's an indicator of serious, potentially serious health consequences.…
Hi. I'm Akilah Heslop and I'm an attorney with the Mold Firm. You are responsible for rental payments during the course of your lease. Yes, you must pay rent even if you suspect mold contamination. There are few exceptions to this duty to pay rent. One main exception is the tenant's right to repair and deduct. “Repair and deduct” is a very specific process that includes specific actions that must be taken by the tenants. Before you employ this remedy, please, it is important that you understand the process. Seeking advice from a landlord-tenant attorney is recommended. Failure to properly employ the repair and deduct remedy may cost you. Unfortunately, for tenants who face mold contamination, the repair and deduct option is usually unbeneficial because the cost to remediate the contaminated residents usually cost thousands of dollars. Failure to pay rent may also cause the tenant to be evicted. If you have any questions regarding your duty to pay your rent, if you have any questions regarding your landlord's duty as it relates to mold contamination, please do not hesitate to give us a call. We, at the Mold Firm are here to answer your questions and give you the advice you need to break the mold.…
As I discussed in other video, which cover the types of damages that could apply to a toxic mold claim you may be entitled to compensation for personal injuries as well as damages to your possessions or your home. It's also important to remember though that the law imposes strict time limitations called statutes of limitations, within which you must bring your claims. If you fail to meet these strict deadlines, then you could lose your right to compensation forever, no matter how malicious the responsible parties actions. These time limitations can vary based on a number of factors. In general, the State of Georgia provides a two year statute of limitations for bringing personal injury claims and four years for damages to your home, property or possessions. Keep in mind though that a number of factors may affect these time limitations lengthening them or shortening them. As a result, if you believe that you or your loved ones may have suffered a toxic mold exposure, I urge you to act decisively and immediately contact Mold Firm for a free case evaluation.…
Exposure to toxic mold can lead to very serious health and financial consequences for you and your loved ones. It can also greatly disrupt your daily lives and your job. Fortunately, our team at Mold Firm can help you get compensation for your injuries and hold those responsible accountable. Depending on whether you are a tenant, a homeowner, an employee or independent contractor or just a guest in somebody's home or office, you may be entitled to the following types of damages: (1) The cost to repair the defect in your home and to remediate the mold and water damage. (2) The costs to replace or remediate your personal possessions, like clothes or furniture, damaged by the mold or water. (3) Return of your security deposit if it has been wrongfully withheld from you. (4) Your alternative living expenses to live in a safe environment, such as an apartment as well as other related costs. (5) Compensation for moving and storing your contaminated possessions. (6) Personal injuries, medical bills and pain and suffering related to your toxic mold exposure. (7) Lost wages, if you had to miss work due to the mold event and, in very limited circumstances, where the responsible party has acted in bad faith, you may be entitled to punitive damages including reimbursement of your attorney's fees and litigation expenses to punish that other party and make sure they never harm anyone else in the future. As you can see, you may be entitled to financial compensation for a number of injuries. So, if you or your loved ones have been injured by toxic mold exposure please contact us at Mold Firm for a free case evaluation.…
Hi. I'm Akilah Heslop and I'm an attorney with the Mold Firm. Mold contamination can be costly. It's important to identify who's responsible for these costs. In Georgia, there are laws that place the duty on the landlord to keep the rental property in good repair. When residing in a rental property, whether it be a house or an apartment, the landlord is responsible to ensure that the property is habitable. This means to make certain that the property is in good repair and that it is functioning. But before landlord can make any repair, they must be given notice of a problem. This means you must notify your landlord of any defects to the residents. This includes any water leaks, any foul odors, or any musty smells. It is best to give written notice with dates which informs the landlord of the problem. If it is impossible to give written notice, verbal notice is acceptable. But please, always remember written notice is preferred as it provides evidence that the landlord was aware of the need for the repair. This includes the tenant not notifying the landlord of the need for the repair or the tenant intentionally causing damage that resulted in mold contamination. Your landlord may also be responsible for damages related to mold contamination if they fail to make proper repairs. If the landlord fails to make necessary repairs, do not hesitate to give our firm a call. We will give you the guidance and the context you need to resolve the problem and collect the compensation you deserve. Remember – document, document, document.…
1 Do You Have Medical Bills as a Result of a Mold Problem? |Toxic Mold Lawyer Atlanta | The Mold Firm 1:47
Do you have medical bills as a result of a mold problem? Have you been exposed to toxic mold? Exposure to Toxic Mold or Black Mold can be extremely dangerous to your health and those around you. It can occur in homes, schools or other buildings with chronic dampness, water intrusion, poor construction, or high humidity and may or may not be visible. Toxic mold regularly develops as a result of inaction on behalf of building owners, landlords, and contractors. You should not have to suffer the consequences of mold problems because of someone else’s negligence. Our Mold Remediation Law Firm will quickly assess your situation to determine the proper course of action. We will address the medical issues, the property damage, handle claims for construction defect, claims for landlord/homeowners association maintenance failures as well as zoning violations. We will work to get you the compensation you deserve. There is no cost to assess your case, it’s free. Our experience with toxic mold cases will ensure you have proper representation during this critical time, we work with physicians, mold inspectors, environmental companies and mold removal specialists, our dedicated attorneys have what it takes to win. Our law firm has the experience and determination needed to attain the compensation you deserve. Do not chance your mold case to an inexperienced lawyer, we are so confident in our ability that you will pay no legal fees if we do not attain compensation for you.…
1 Do You Believe You've Been Affected by Mold Contamination | Toxic Mold Attorneys Atlanta | Mold Firm 1:13
Hi, I'm Akilah Heslop and I'm an attorney with the Mold Firm. If you believe you've been affected by mold contamination, the first and most important step is to contact your landlord. Contacting your landlord and notifying them of the problem is the best and most efficient thing to do. Working something up amicably is always the best resolution. If your landlord fails to resolve the problem, then you need to figure out whether or not you have property damages or medical damages. If you believe you've been injured medically, contact your primary care physician or your ENT, so they could start recording your medical injuries. If there's property damages, start taking pictures – document, document, document. Documentation is the key and most essential part of litigation. Take pictures, take videos, and notify your landlord and keep them in touch of everything that has been going on. Once these steps have been done, don't hesitate to give us a call. We will help you, we will guide you and we will walk you through the process that is necessary for you to be successful in your mold claim.…
If you're a homeowner and not just a tenant, then you're generally responsible for maintaining your home to prevent the excess moisture, leaks and flooding that can lead to the development of mold. Sometimes though, if others' actions directly contributed to or created the mold in your home, then they may be liable for your mold related injuries. For example, a contractor such as an HVAC repairman or a roofer may have been negligent in repairing or working on your home, resulting in water damage and creating a toxic mold environment. A builder may have been negligent in the construction of your home, failed to build the home to code, or otherwise created a condition that allows excess moisture and mold to grow in your home. Even if they are not the original builder, then the seller of the used home may have concealed or misrepresented certain defects in the home, such as a leaky roof or a toxic mold problem. Or, your insurance adjuster may have failed to properly inspect your home and evaluate your claim following a flood or mold event. In these and other cases, you may be entitled to some or all of the following damages – the cost to repair the structural defects in the home and to remediate the mold and water damage, the cost to replace or remediate your molded or water damaged personal possessions, like clothes or furniture, your alternative living expenses to live in a safe environment, such as a hotel or apartment, as well as other related costs. Personal injuries, medical bills and pain and suffering related to the toxic mold exposure. Lost wages: if the toxic mold caused you to miss work and, in very limited circumstances where the responsible party has acted in bad faith, you may be entitled to punitive damages including reimbursement of your attorney’s fees and litigation expenses to punish that other party for your loss and to make sure they never hurt anyone else like that in the future. If your home has a toxic mold problem, please contact Mold Firm for a free case evaluation to see whether you may be entitled to compensation.…
1 Exposed To Toxic Mold? | Atlanta Toxic Mold Attorney | Georgia Mold Lawyer | Toxic Mold Lawyers 2:22
“It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”- Muhammad Ali I’m Carson Jeffreys, an attorney with the mold firm. At the Mold Firm our goal is simple, getting compensation and justice for victims of toxic mold exposure. Victims of mold whether in their apartments or in their homes, suffer a variety of symptoms that seem to come out of nowhere, they come to us very frustrated because doctors diagnosis or inconclusive are seem to go in different directions. Here at the Mold Firm, we help them sort through all the documentation relating to their mold symptoms and help them come out with an outcome that compensate some for the pain and suffering that they’ve experience. Unlike personal injury claims involving vehicular or slip and fall accidents, where the injuries are often more immediate and obvious, proving cause and effect in toxic mold cases requires understanding and addressing numerous complex issues of medical and environmental science. At the Mold Firm, our attorneys have years of experience litigating these issues and a firm understanding of the scientific matters involved in any toxic mold case. Here at the Mold Firm, we help anyone with mold in their home, this includes a tenant who had a landlord that refuse to repair or improperly cost repairs which caused molds to develop in the home, or a homeowner who had a remediator, contractor or builder that perform substandard work or acted negligently in caused mold to develop in the home. I’m passionate about family, and being a mother I can relate to what families go through when they have a mold contaminated home, which makes it so much important for me to help families, it makes it that much more important for me to make things right to find justice for these people that have an unheard voice and that is why I volunteered at the Atlanta AVLF cause that gives me a second opportunity to reach a second client base where I can help people that are living in mold infested home, that are facing unlawful evictions or that just need help in finding the right path when it comes to mold contamination.…
Have you had a professional mold test done? Have you been exposed to toxic mold? Exposure to Toxic Mold or Black Mold can be extremely dangerous to your health and those around you. It can occur in homes, schools or other buildings with chronic dampness, water intrusion, poor construction, or high humidity and may or may not be visible. Toxic mold regularly develops as a result of inaction on behalf of building owners, landlords, and contractors. You should not have to suffer the consequences of mold problems because of someone else’s negligence. Our Mold Remediation Law Firm will quickly assess your situation to determine the proper course of action. We will address the medical issues, the property damage, handle claims for construction defect, claims for landlord/homeowners association maintenance failures as well as zoning violations. We will work to get you the compensation you deserve. There is no cost to assess your case, it’s free. Our experience with toxic mold cases will ensure you have proper representation during this critical time, we work with physicians, mold inspectors, environmental companies and mold removal specialists, our dedicated attorneys have what it takes to win. Our law firm has the experience and determination needed to attain the compensation you deserve. Do not chance your mold case to an inexperienced lawyer, we are so confident in our ability that you will pay no legal fees if we do not attain compensation for you. We are breaking the mold.…
Is there a musty smell in your home or building? Have you been exposed to toxic mold? Exposure to Toxic Mold or Black Mold can be extremely dangerous to your health and those around you. It can occur in homes, schools or other buildings with chronic dampness, water intrusion, poor construction, or high humidity and may or may not be visible. Toxic mold regularly develops as a result of inaction on behalf of building owners, landlords, and contractors. You should not have to suffer the consequences of mold problems because of someone else’s negligence. Our Mold Remediation Law Firm will quickly assess your situation to determine the proper course of action. We will address the medical issues, the property damage, handle claims for construction defect, claims for landlord/homeowners association maintenance failures as well as zoning violations. We will work to get you the compensation you deserve. There is no cost to assess your case, it’s free. Our experience with toxic mold cases will ensure you have proper representation during this critical time, we work with physicians, mold inspectors, environmental companies and mold removal specialists, our dedicated attorneys have what it takes to win. Our law firm has the experience and determination needed to attain the compensation you deserve. Do not chance your mold case to an inexperienced lawyer, we are so confident in our ability that you will pay no legal fees if we do not attain compensation for you.…
Is there visible mold in your home or building? Have you been exposed to toxic mold? Exposure to Toxic Mold or Black Mold can be extremely dangerous to your health and those around you. It can occur in homes, schools or other buildings with chronic dampness, water intrusion, poor construction, or high humidity and may or may not be visible. Toxic mold regularly develops as a result of inaction on behalf of building owners, landlords, and contractors. You should not have to suffer the consequences of mold problems because of someone else’s negligence. Our Mold Remediation Law Firm will quickly assess your situation to determine the proper course of action. We will address the medical issues, the property damage, handle claims for construction defect, claims for landlord/homeowners association maintenance failures as well as zoning violations. We will work to get you the compensation you deserve. There is no cost to assess your case, it’s free. Our experience with toxic mold cases will ensure you have proper representation during this critical time, we work with physicians, mold inspectors, environmental companies and mold removal specialists, our dedicated attorneys have what it takes to win. Our law firm has the experience and determination needed to attain the compensation you deserve. Do not chance your mold case to an inexperienced lawyer, we are so confident in our ability that you will pay no legal fees if we do not attain compensation for you.…
1 Do You Have Personal Property In The Building And Been Exposed To Toxic Mold? | Mold Lawyer Atlanta 1:46
Do you have personal property in the building? Have you been exposed to toxic mold? Exposure to Toxic Mold or Black Mold can be extremely dangerous to your health and those around you. It can occur in homes, schools or other buildings with chronic dampness, water intrusion, poor construction, or high humidity and may or may not be visible. Toxic mold regularly develops as a result of inaction on behalf of building owners, landlords, and contractors. You should not have to suffer the consequences of mold problems because of someone else’s negligence. Our Mold Remediation Law Firm will quickly assess your situation to determine the proper course of action. We will address the medical issues, the property damage, handle claims for construction defect, claims for landlord/homeowners association maintenance failures as well as zoning violations. We will work to get you the compensation you deserve. There is no cost to assess your case, it’s free. Our experience with toxic mold cases will ensure you have proper representation during this critical time, we work with physicians, mold inspectors, environmental companies and mold removal specialists, our dedicated attorneys have what it takes to win. Our law firm has the experience and determination needed to attain the compensation you deserve. Do not chance your mold case to an inexperienced lawyer, we are so confident in our ability that you will pay no legal fees if we do not attain compensation for you.…
1 What To Expect During Your Consultation | Mold Firm Atlanta | Toxic Mold Lawyers | The Mold Firm 0:43
After you call, one of our team members will reach out to you to gather information about your mold situation. This is a critical step in assessing the strength and value of your case, please be prepared to provide a chronology of incident relating to your mold case. A team member will also provide instructions for sending us your mold report, your medical bills and any communications you may have with your landlord or builder. Remember, these details are critical to the success of your case.…
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