The appearance of mold often indicates a high humidity in the room. Mold is a colony of fungi, releasing toxic microspores in large numbers. Let's look at how dangerous mold in the apartment is. This is not only a spoiled interior, but also the cause of many human diseases. Mold can settle in the lungs and on the skin, penetrate the body, get into food, lead to inflammation of the respiratory tract, bronchial asthma and other diseases.
Black mold in the apartment sometimes causes damage to the gastrointestinal tract, liver and kidneys, frequent headaches and chronic fatigue. This effect on the body occurs when the smallest toxic fungal particles enter the circulatory system.
Mold can form in any, even the most unexpected place of the apartment. The most common places: tile in the bathroom , in the kitchen. Mold is also formed on the walls, in cases where microcracks appear in the inter-panel seams. For the same reason, you can find mold on the ceiling in the apartment. Fungus easily appears on the stone, paint or concrete. It causes the destruction of many finishing and building materials.
The causes of mold in the apartment
Any wet surface is a fertile soil for mold fungus. It begins to actively grow into thin threads at a temperature of plus 20 and humidity of more than 95%. If before that microscopic spores can be present almost everywhere in the air without multiplying, then the moist environment activates their vital activity.
The cause of the appearance of mold can be the lack or lack of ventilation in the apartment. Often, the abundance of mold affects tenants of the first floors, as well as those who use irrationally humidifiers or plant a large number of tropical houseplants in a small room.
How to clean the mold in the apartment?
The main and most common methods of fighting black mold fungus are as follows:
- improvement of heating and ventilation of premises;
- installation of additional thermal insulation on cold walls;
- installation of windows with good thermal separation;
- waterproofing of walls and floor in places of frequent contact with water;
- use in the finish of hydrophobic primers and materials.
You can also use chemicals to fight mold. At the same time, it is necessary to select the correct means for destroying wet rot and for dry mold. The market is widely represented antiseptics, which are made on an oily basis and on a water-soluble basis.
All these antifungal agents have the same method of application - deep impregnation of the affected surfaces. This allows us to destroy internal foci of reproduction of the fungus and prevent the formation of new foci.
If the fungus is not much affected the surface or there is no possibility to use chemical preparations, you can first scrape off the mold from the walls , wash them thoroughly with a brush and treat the affected surface with a solution of vinegar or copper sulfate.
In the event that the mold attacked most of the wall, and you decided to make a major overhaul, you must remove everything: wallpaper, plaster, putty and treat the wall with an antifungal compound. Next, the wall should be carefully dried and then repaired.
In cases with a constantly wet wall, it is necessary to make a decision on overhauling the wall from the outside. To do this, you need to apply to the structure that is responsible for the operation of the house. Data work in their competence. Thus, you can permanently or permanently rid yourself of the problem with the presence of mold in the apartment.