How do you find out if you have mold in your home?

You can purchase a mold kit at most hardware stores for less than $10.

If the room smells musty, then there's a good chance you've got mold. If you go to Home Depot, they rent a room fogger for $18-20 for 4 hours (you could probably do the entire house in 4 hours) and the Concrobium Mold Control for about $30.

I had a flooded basement due to a water pipe bursting and a leak in my attic and treated both areas with no issues. The alternative to not dealing with mold early on is illness and the costs related to that.

Respiratory problems, headaches, migraine, bloody nose are common indicators especially if the person(s) were previously in good health, but there are many more symptoms to be diagnosed by a medical professional. Let the doctors know you may be living in a mold infected residence so they know what tests to run. As far as testing kits, any hardware or big

box home improvement stores have a variety of kits. Some are better than others so do your homework. If you want to be absolutely certain you need to hire a mold expert and it may involve destructive testing. Kits are as inexpensive as $10 and up to several hundred dollars.

House will smell musty.You may notice mould spores forming on windows,or black spots on walls.

Best prevention is to keep your home well ventilated.Mould grows in moist damp conditions.

You can see it and smell it. Look in areas that water can infiltrate like under sinks, beneath window sills, the attic walls, basements, a bathroom that has leaked. The kits identify the kind of mold you have... the deadly one is stachybotrys, but all molds can make you ill especially if it gets into your HVAC systems then its throughout the house. Pick up kits at home stores, like Lowes around $30-$40 then you mail them off for analysis.

It's not a crazy question. You don't have to remove the furniture, but please know that the fogger puts a fine mist into the air that gets into all the nooks and crannies, killing the mold. You might want to cover the furniture that you are most concerned about or remove it entirely.

It's not going to penetrate deep enough to get behind the drywall. The only solution for mold behind the drywall is to remove the drywall.

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