Seasonal Allergies Are a Reminder of Mold Health Risks Summertime ... and the Livin' Is Sneezy What, you ask, do respiratory allergic reactions to pollen have to do with mold? Good question. Here’s the connection. Hot, Dry = Pollen (and Mold Risk) Pollen that has...
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Is Black Mold Toxic to Your Family?
Black mold, or stachybotrys chartarum, is often referred to as “toxic” black mold. That’s because it produces trichothecene mycotoxins. Mycotoxins are nasty poisons that can cause serious health problems and even death. Mycotoxins from fungi like black mold have been...
How Do I Know If I Have Mold In My Crawlspace
How Do I Know If I Have Mold In My Crawlspace? Mold can be a precarious threat to your home or business and its inhabitants. Known health risks associated with exposure to common strains of mold spores are: respiratory irritation and infections, skin or eye reactions,...
Water Damage Tip #8 – Ventilate
Water Damage Tip #8 – Ventilate Get Started on This Step Right Away This tip is crucial to minimizing your water damage and helping to recover quickly. Ventilation enables water to evaporate faster, which helps reduce the damage and prevent other issues, like mold...
Water Damage Tip #5: Document Damage
Water Damage Tip: Document Damage This Step Is Critical Documenting your damage is of particular importance when you have flooding from weather or plumbing leaks, so important that we’ve broken this critical property protection step out of our blog post Water Damage?...
Water Damage? Follow These 10 Tips
Water Damage? Follow These 10 Tips Water damage from flooding or plumbing issues like frozen, ruptured pipes can present harrowing challenges. It’s hard to know what to do first when the water recedes. Act fast and follow these tips after the water recedes to...
In Photos: Anatomy of a Ruptured Frozen Pipe
In Photos: Anatomy of a Ruptured Frozen Pipe During one of this winter’s particularly harsh cold spells, a pipe froze and burst in an office building at the Coca Cola bottling plant on York Street in Denver. The pipe was in the ceiling upstairs, so the water from the...
Why Remove Old Insulation?
Why Remove Old Insulation? There are any number of reasons you might want or need to remove old insulation from your attic or other spaces in your home or business. Whatever the reason, Abbotts has state-of-the-art equipment and expertise to remove hazardous old...
Winterization Starts Now
Winterization starts now! Frozen pipes not yet ruptured? You may not be so lucky next time. Let’s look forward to August: The sun was hot today, but there was shade along the trail, and you laughed with friends a million miles away from the cold of winter. Still, you...
Why Use Abbotts for Mold Testing?
Why Use Abbotts for Mold Testing? With health at stake, you want a professional. Mold is potentially hazardous to your family or your employees and customers. You can’t afford to ignore signs of mold like musty smells or discolored walls, or circumstances like a...
Cleaning up Water Damage in Your Home? Follow These Tips
Cleaning up Water Damage in Your Home? Follow These Tips Now that the water has receded, it's time to act to prevent the damage from getting worse and restore your property. Do you know what to do first? Where to start? Depending upon the scope of the water damage as...
Locating & Eliminating Mold: How Specialists Do It
Insider Secrets: How Mold Specialists Find and Eradicate Mold (Part 2) In part 1 of our mold remediation report, we talked about what to expect when you think you have a mold problem and call in a mold testing and remediation specialist. We discussed testing...