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Mildew
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First, go to the source of the problem.

Find out what is causing the odor.

Use a Moisture Sensor to see if the carpet/underlay is still wet.

(It may even be isolated urine in different areas).

Lift the carpet and check the backing, underlay, base floor and smooth-edge, oops, tack strip. Blush

Your nose is always a good source of identification in these situations, but I don't recommend sniffing the spores into your lungs.

If mold spores are present, these must be neutralized with a specific anti-microbial that will eliminate those spores.

Using bleach WILL NOT solve any problem underneath, in fact it will put the spores into panic mode where they will immediately start re-producing, except you have bleached the color out and can no longer see the spores.

Surface cleaning of the carpet face fibers will do diddly squat to eliminate mold, and will , possibly, exacerbate the problem by feeding the mold spores more moisture.

One final, I know nothing at all about your mold regulations over there.

Guess I'm probably no help to you at all. Huh


Merry CHRISTmas anyhow. Wink

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Mildew - by FloorCareMD - 12-24-2013, 03:14 PM
RE: Mildew - by Shorty - 12-24-2013, 04:54 PM
RE: Mildew - by FloorCareMD - 12-24-2013, 05:02 PM
RE: Mildew - by jtmellon - 12-25-2013, 09:00 AM
RE: Mildew - by FloorCareMD - 12-25-2013, 02:02 PM
RE: Mildew - by jtmellon - 12-25-2013, 08:13 PM
RE: Mildew - by FloorCareMD - 12-26-2013, 12:15 AM



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