Can Mold Issues Continue to Persist in the Future w/out Environmental Report? | Mold Lawyer Atlanta

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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.