Hello folks, Dave Schuelke here, Twin Home Experts. I'm in a bathroom and I'm gonna
go ahead and show you how to remove mold from your bathroom ceiling. Alright folks,
so two things you have to really confirm is the type of mold a dewpoint meaning
just from the steam that's not properly being vented out your window or a fan. A
lot of times you can determine if you've got dewpoint when you have all those black little
spots everywhere. It's actually a much easier mold removal process than what
I'm about to show you. The bathroom that we're in is actually caused by a leak
inside the ceiling here. It's actually a rain leak from the roof. So as
you can see here a little closer the mold that we're dealing with here.
The black toxic mold Stachybotrys. So we got it here and here. And if we use our
moisture meter we've got a hundred percent moisture that's inside that
ceiling. So if you're going to remove this type of mold there is a protocol
that you have to follow so you don't cross-contaminate into the home. So the
first step we're going to do before we deal with this type of mold is we're
going to build a zipper door containment which consists of some really good
sticky tape and some thick plastic. The door when it gets covered up so as we're
opening this up we're not blowing into these mold spores inside the home. Now if
you have a air duct vent in your bathroom that also needs to get sealed
off. Alright folks so I just want to show you how what the homeowner did is they
attempted to try to seal this stuff off but this is painters plastic it's very thin
you don't want to use this for any type of protection. It's just not going to do
any justice to protecting your indoor air as well as the type of tape.
As you can see there's a lot of ways for any type of mold spores to get through
this so this is kind of a waste of time. What we like to do is when were
performing any type of mold inside the home and if it requires removing wet
moldy materials such as drywall, wood we love using. This has got a UV light so we
plug this in outside the container area and what this is going to do is
just gonna help scrub the air and keep the indoor air clean while we're
working inside the bathroom. It's pretty loud but let me show you what it what it
sounds like.
All right now we're ready to go ahead and build the zipper door containment. Ok
we're outside the bathroom doorway here as you can see. We use the proper tape so
it doesn't peel the paint off when we go to remove all of this and then we use a
double-sided sticky tape which we're gonna apply our six mil over this
doorway here. And the plastic that we use is again six mil, very thick. Let's go
ahead and apply it here on top of this sticky tape
Okay so now that we've applied the plastic we put another layer of our
green tape over the plastic and this completely seals off the containment
here. All right then we install a zipper
this allows you to gain access coming in and out of the bathroom without tearing
up the the plastic barrier here. Alright so as you can see here just want to
point out you know a proper mask and a proper suit offers a lot of protection
so you don't get any mold spores. So just something to consider when you're doing an
abatement. So as you can see we've already opened up part of the ceiling
here and we've bagged and hauled away. We're going to continue opening up
at this level here to complete the demolition process there. So just wanted
to give you an insight on some of the steps that we take here. Also we did have
a dehumidifier here overnight this is a piece of equipment here to extract all
the excess moisture from the ceiling. Very, very, very important to have when
you're doing mold remediation and you have wet walls or wet ceilings.
We've taken out all the ceiling. that had mold. This is our treatment here.
We've also fogged the entire bathroom here and wiped all the walls down hepa
vac. We're gonna go ahead now and pull our dehumidifier out now that we've got
everything dry. We'll do a nice final wipe down and that will complete the
mold remediation when it comes to your bathroom ceiling.