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Mold seems to crop up more often these days, and not just because 2017 has been an unusually wet year. Despite a busy hurricane season (remember Maria and Nate?), precipitation has been average. The reason mold is more prevalent now than before is because we are paying more attention to it. The Wall Street Journal […]

  Mold removal is something we have all dealt with at least at some point in our lives. Only the rarest amongst us will not have seen those stomach-turning, colored organisms growing on the leftovers in our refrigerator. Luckily, the mold on food is easy to deal with; toss the leftovers into the trash, and […]

As Joe and Cathy Cunningham found out the hard way, it can take mold less than three days to transform itself from “barely detectable” into a source of pungent smells and sickening viruses. Joe, Cathy, and Mold Joe and Cathy Cunningham had been through what they call “the drill” before. They knew exactly how to […]

Armed with more than 400 types of olfactory (scent) receptors, humans can detect a trillion odors; citrus smells familiar to fruit like oranges, woody smells like the smell of a pine forest, and sweet smells such as chocolate and caramel. Our sense of smell is an important one. It sends signals to our brain as […]

Formaldehyde Is a Hot Topic in the News. The wood products company Weyerhaeuser recently recalled their Flak Jacket product where odor and Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) concerns are an issue. The 60-Minutes Lumber Liquidators piece on Health and Safety Violations associated with Formaldehyde will shock you. Watch it right now for the sake of your family’s […]

Your health depends on the quality of the air you breathe, meaning that the poor quality of indoor air could be ruining your health without you even knowing about it. Just because mainstream media does not cover the topic as frequently as the air pollution in China, that does not mean the air inside your […]