Can you clean your Oriental Rugs like you clean Carpets?
by SteamMaster | May 2, 2016 | Carpets, Oriental Rug
Difference in Cleaning Oriental Rugs and Carpets Oriental Rugs, when kept and maintained, keep the longevity of your investment. If you have any type of rugs in your home, including both Oriental and Persian options, and regular carpet as your floor covering there are...Facebook Feed
You can’t always see mold. Sometimes it’s hiding behind a wall, beneath flooring, or inside a ceiling.
That’s why mold remediation isn’t about what you can see. It’s about following the right process.
Do it right. SteamMaster follows the IICRC S520 Standard because your home deserves more than a quick cleanup.
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Two water damage jobs last month. Same size rooms, same amount of water. One dried in 3 days. The other took 5.
The difference wasn't the equipment. It was which drying method matched the damage.
In-place drying spreads air movers and dehumidifiers across the whole affected area. Floors, walls, baseboards, all getting airflow at once. It's the standard approach when water has traveled everywhere. Wide coverage, steady extraction.
Target drying is different. We tent off a specific saturated material, like a section of hardwood or a single wall cavity, and focus intense airflow right where saturation is worst. No wasted energy on areas that are already drying fine on their own.
Choosing wrong costs real money. Every extra day means more equipment rental, more energy costs, and more time for secondary damage like mold to get a foothold. Two extra days of drying on a job that should have been targeted from the start adds up fast.
We assess moisture levels at the material level before a single fan gets placed. That's how you dry in 3 days instead of 5.
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Bleach kills mold on tile. On drywall and wood, it feeds it.
The water in bleach soaks into porous materials and adds moisture to the root structure you can't see. Surface mold disappears for a few weeks. Then it comes back darker, deeper, and harder to remove.
Three things most homeowners don't realize before spending money on the wrong fix:
Bleach can't reach mold roots inside porous surfaces like drywall, wood, or insulation. It only strips what's visible.
Painting over mold with "mold-resistant" paint traps moisture and spores behind the coating. Within weeks, it pushes through or spreads to adjacent areas.
Visible mold is a symptom. The cause is always a moisture source, whether it's a slow leak, poor ventilation, or humidity buildup in a mountain home. Until that source is identified and stopped, removal is temporary.
SteamMaster's IICRC-certified remediation team follows ANSI/IICRC S520 protocols with independent post-remediation clearance testing. We don't guess. We locate, contain, and remediate at the source.
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