COVID 19 Environmental Air and Surface Testing @ Home and Work
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020 | Categories: Assisted Living Facilities, Bacteria Health Risks, Commercial Building Inspections, Commercial Inspections, Indoor Air Quality, Sick Building, Surgical Centers, Toxic Mold,Indoor Air Quality | No Comments
COVID – 19 Testing As an essential service, Volunteer Mold and Indoor Air Quality,is responding to a surge of requests from Home and Building Owners for surface and air testing before and after professional cleaning has been conducted. Volunteer Mold and Indoor Air Quality Services can safely perform testing for Residential and Commercial Clients in […]
Read More »Causes and Sources of Mold Growth
Thursday, June 14th, 2018 | Categories: Bacteria Health Risks, Black Mold, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Commercial Inspections, Crawl Space Encapsulations, Flooding, Indoor Air Quality, Sick Building, Thermography, Water Leaks | No Comments
Underlying Causes of Mold Mold is everywhere. The issues facing us as home and business owners, is when mold reaches a point that it becomes a risk to health. Mold thrives in moist / warm conditions. Add these conditions to a suitable food source, mold can spread very quickly, often in unseen places. Mold thrives […]
Read More »Why are women 60 to 80% more likely to get ill from Enviormental Exposure?
Thursday, May 17th, 2018 | Categories: Bacteria Health Risks, Black Mold, Children and Mold, Crawl Space, Flooding, Indoor Air Quality, Toxic Mold, Toxic Mold,Indoor Air Quality, Water Leaks | No Comments
Women are much more likely to become sick due to environmentally acquired illnesses than men. Though this is a widely accepted fact in the medical community, there isn’t a clear reason as to why. There have been a number of factors which have been hypothesized through studies and doctors’ experiences. As a society, we are […]
Read More »Are we poisoning ourselves with products?
Saturday, December 30th, 2017 | Categories: Bacteria Health Risks, Children and Mold, Indoor Air Quality, Sick Building | No Comments
New Year – Better Health. Perhaps the better question is: Why are we using products in our homes and bodies that have known toxicity? Recently I have been reading a great deal about common products we find in our homes and the epidemic of immune diseases and chemical sensitivities that many of us suffer from. […]
Read More »8 Dirty Little Secrets in Your Crawl Space
Tuesday, April 18th, 2017 | Categories: Bacteria Health Risks, Black Mold, Children and Mold, Crawl Space | No Comments
Most of us have no desire to enter space that lies beneath our homes. Crawl Spaces typically are dark, dirty and damp. A haven for spiders and animal waste prevents them from being an attractive venue for even the most adventurous of us. The conditions within Crawl Spaces prevents most East Tennessee homeowners from seeing the damage that can […]
Read More »Indoor Pool Air Quality is Often Hazerdous
Monday, April 10th, 2017 | Categories: Bacteria Health Risks, Children and Mold, Commercial Building Inspections, Commercial Inspections, Indoor Air Quality, Toxic Mold,Indoor Air Quality | No Comments
Ever spent time at an indoor pool? Many of us have experienced indoor pools while traveling to hotels with them or attending swim meets. Indoor pools provide a great way to break the winter blahs and get some good exercise. But is it truly a health way to exercise? In a recent travel trip to Michigan […]
Read More »Your Cell Phone Is Contaminated!
Sunday, January 22nd, 2017 | Categories: Bacteria Health Risks, Surgical Centers | No Comments
Hi, everybody. It’s Bob of Volunteer Mold & Indoor Air Quality here talking about something that’s pretty darn disgusting—your cell phone. A recent survey done on cellphone users—their hands and their devices themselves. They found that more than 80% of the devices that are owned by men and 60% of the cellphones held by women have […]
Read More »Effects of a Leaking Wastewater Line
Thursday, January 19th, 2017 | Categories: Bacteria Health Risks, Mold Solutions, Water Leaks | No Comments
WATCH THE VIDEO: I want to share an experience I had recently. It’s all too common occurrence that a client has a slow minor leak that may remain undiscovered for months or years. We get several of these calls every year. A great customer contacted me and related that her home had a leaking, waste […]
Read More »One of The Biggest Mistakes You Could Make
Sunday, January 15th, 2017 | Categories: Bacteria Health Risks, Mold Solutions, Sick Building | No Comments
WATCH THE VIDEO: I did an inspection yesterday for a young family that was trying to vet a house they were looking at purchasing. They went through the typical steps of having a home inspector come out and do a general home inspection for things like windows and doors and function of appliances and many […]
Read More »Reasons our customers choose us.
Saturday, December 10th, 2016 | Categories: Bacteria Health Risks, Commercial Building Inspections, Indoor Air Quality | No Comments
We frequently ask our clients why they choose Volunteer Inspections to help them with their property inspection. They tell us that our “holistic approach” to understanding building issues serves them best. We call this “Diversity of Disciplines and Experience”. Our inspectors have decades of building inspection […]
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