I recommend Healthy Homes Inc. DE-Mold 1000% and here’s why. In order to fully understand why I am writing this testimonial for Mike Partlow, CEO of Healthy Homes Inc. I need to explain who I am and how it can benefit you or your family’s health! I am going to do it by sharing nine lessons I learned fighting against molds, bacteria, funguses, and mycotoxins. I hope writing this saves you the time and painful lessons I experienced and gets you on your way to a “Healthy Home” too!
First, who am I. I’ve been a homeowner for 23 years, been married for 18, we both live with our two children. I have serious allergies to mold. I wouldn’t wish this allergy on my worst enemy! When Mike asked me to write a testimonial for DeMold, I actually felt compelled to write it because I believe mold is an underlining cause of many of my health issues. I strongly believe that writing this testimonial can spare you and even possibly your loved ones the pain of dealing with the health issues that I live with daily.
1. First and most importantly, not all people who claim to be mold experts actually are and many that claim to be able to fix your mold issue actually can. You need to arm yourself with proper information. Ask questions. Verify references and choose professionals cautiously. You also need to verify what cleaner or enzyme they will use because many just plain do not work. Understand that many people that work in the mold remediation space are doing it to sell work for their construction company and fund their lifestyle rather than correct your mold problem. Never hire a mold inspector that also sells construction work. Buyer beware!
2. It cost 10 times more to remediate mold when not done properly the first time. Mold is an organism that wants to eat and multiply. Understand the true cost of not remediating mold correctly is the creation of a very unhealthy living space in your home. Mold growing in your space can cause “mold sickness.” It can alter the health of anyone that uses the space – including you, your loved ones or even your children. As an example. Years ago, before I was introduced to DE-Mold I even had a very close friends that bought a house that had mold in it and their son’s allergies got so bad they had to move. Enter “mold sickness” into any search engine. You will be horrified by the results.
3. Mike Partlow CEO of Healthy Homes Inc. is a true mold expert. I don’t label him that lightly. He has earned that title by not only correcting other so-called “mold experts” mistakes but he also understood that many mold remediation strategies, chemicals, and enzymes did not completely “deactivate” molds. Rather than continue to use ineffective products he created his own line which he and several other remediators use daily in their remediation businesses.
4. Molds, bacteria, funguses, and mycotoxins are omnipresent. That means they are everywhere all the time. If we didn’t have molds & fungus we would be drowning in leaves and dead trees. Molds, funguses, bacteria and mycotoxins can certainly grow outside then drift with positive and negative air pressure as our windows or doors open and close. Your HVAC systems cycle air too. Many are located in non-conditioned space like a basement or an attic and “pull” moldy air to blow all around your living space. If you have allergies and you haven’t read Jeffery May’s book, “My house is killing me” you better make it #1 on your list.
5. Molds need three things to grow: water, food, and a specific temperature range. It’s widely reported that standing water is key to “activating” a mold colony. Mold can multiply wildly when in an environment over 50% humility. There are also thousands of different species of mold. They act like conquering Vikings and constantly try to destroy the other colony and plant roots in new areas with food. They do this by releasing mycotoxins. Mycotoxins are so horrible for your health I am going to save that as the last little treat!
6. Caution, do you monitor and keep your house less than 50% humidity? If not, it is very likely you have mold growth in your carpets, walls or comfy chair in your living room. Species of mold can grow unchecked in dark non-ventilated spaces. They can destroy an organic material such as the paper that is used to bind the sheetrock we use to make a wall or the wood studs we use to build our homes. The CDC has estimated that 1 in 5 buildings have had some type of water damage since construction. I will add some buildings are contaminated during construction and then they close up the walls anyway. Pause to think about that! As for the last thing mold needs to grow, a temperature range between 32 and 120. I don’t know about you but I like outdoor temperatures between freezing and the Sahara Desert – don’t you? So does mold.
7. Mold grows like a weed with a root structure. If the whole organism is not “deactivated” by using the correct product it can be left to grow – usually unchecked. I’ve read many horror stories about mold remediation companies having to go back to retreat or people that have had to renovate whole rooms because the remediation was not completed well. How often do you cut your sheetrock to check inside the wall for mold growth? Me? Only when I am patching a hole or doing a renovation which means hardly ever. Question? Do weeds grow back in a yard or a flower bed if you don’t pull the root when you weed? Of course it does. Well mold grows like a weed.
8. DO NOT USE BLEACH TO KILL MOLD. The H2O in the bleach actually feeds the organism, then to make it worse you think you killed it but the bleaching feature only “toped” the spore and cleans the stain but it does not kill the root allowing it to just grow back. Oh it’s usually worse the second time around too.
Lastly and the most dangerous is number 9 – mycotoxins. Mycotoxins can be thousandths the size of a human hair. They are basically a way for a mold spore to spread, conquer and multiply. Do this for me. Picture a dried dandelion spreading spores in the wind. POOF! Mycotoxins are so small gravity doesn’t pull them to the ground instead they float in the air. When you breathe, they are so small they pass right through the alveoli in your lungs and alveoli and are absorbed into your blood stream. When that happens it can cause a wide variety of “mold sickness” health issues. Brain fog, auto immune diseases, inflammation, the list is long and really scarry. Google it. It’s horrifying.
I used many different products and air filters based on “experts” recommendations before I fogged my home with the original DE-Mold formula. No other product has come close to the results. I also live close to the ocean. It is a very humid environment. To combat the outdoor mold as it “blows in” I do reapply the DE-Mold every couple of months. You might consider it too.
Mike has tweaked the commercial DE-Mold formula and is now manufacturing a line of smaller residential “everyday” household cleaning products. I fogged my home with the “NEW” DE-Mold and it is even better than I remember the original. I am waiting on some of his new residential products. If you even think you have a mold issue in your home, I implore you to drop everything, call Mike so he can either remediate or refer you to someone who can treat it with DE-Mold.
Garrett Stagg, MA