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    Manage Mold

    The Manage Mold podcast was made for families on a health journey that NEED the real, no-holds-barred answers on how to create - and ensure - a healthy home. With more than 35-years in the industry, your host Dean Mahlstedt will share how you can make your home the healthiest place for your family to be. Dean, along with his guests, who are industry experts in their respective fields, will be sharing the latest information on mold, mold remediation, water intrusion, and what it takes to make (and keep) a healthy home. You can learn more at: http://bit.ly/manage_mold
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    Episodes (24)

    03: How Do I Know If I Have Mold In My Home - DIY Solutions

    03: How Do I Know If I Have Mold In My Home - DIY Solutions

    In this episode, I am going to give you a bird’s eye view of the solutions when you find there’s a problem - you find there’s mold in your home. We'll be going through the principles, concepts, and cutting edge techniques that are available today.

    We’ll share all this info with you so that you can be as smart as you can to be the hero of your own story. And as always, we want to elevate and not devastate, so stay tuned.

    Key Takeaways:

    • Recording water & storm damage, flooding and water spills history (10:30)
    • Making sure that no rain or snow is stuck in the landscaping (11:32)
    • Doing an interior check to find water stains that are signs of water leaks (14:39)
    • As for sampling, using sterile materials is important (23:38)
    • You can buy those little petri dishes available and follow label directions (27:09)
    • Consumers can access resources and tools available for professionals (39:59)

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    02: How Do I Know If I Have Mold In My Home - Identifying The Problem

    02: How Do I Know If I Have Mold In My Home - Identifying The Problem

    In this episode, we are going to deal with one of the primary questions that we are continually asked - How do I find mold in my own house? I'm going to walk through some of these things that are pretty important for us to understand.

    We have to ask, why is the mold there in the first place? Where is the mold? How did it get there?

    We want to guide you with info gained over the last seven-eight years helping our clients solve their mold issues, so stay tuned.

    Key Takeaways

    • In most homes we look at, mold is invisible, hiding. It is actually very small (4:17)
    • Flooding, weather-related, and plumbing issues can cause mold damage (8:07)
    • Basements have problems with high moisture and mold contamination (10:40)
    • Many crawl spaces having issues with excess moisture account for mold (10:37)
    • Building materials, cardboard, paper, cloth, carpet - all come in (16:31)
    • A look at measuring and sampling tools used (21:02)

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    01: The Mahlstedt Mold Story

    01: The Mahlstedt Mold Story

    In this episode, I’ll take you on a journey with me to see how a young family become involved in the restoration and cleaning industry and ran into a huge set of hurdles, dealing with mold issues, Lyme disease and issues with their home.

    In all of this, we aim to guide and help people who are going through the things our family had to go through. We want this to be the resource that we wish we had when we were dealing with all our health issues that resulted from mold in the home. We intend to elevate and not devastate, so stay tuned.

    Key Points in the Story:

    • Partnering with friends into the cleaning industry and then buying a firm (2:44)
    • Learning that my wife had a tumor; I recovered from a terrible mishap (8:09)
    • 95% of our business assets ruined in a fire; we sailed through all of that (10:37)
    • Mold damage issue in a house, Lyme disease and co-infections (16:53)
    • Selling off a business segment that was becoming unmanageable (27:30)
    • Switching over to safer, healthier and more efficient business practices (29:55)

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    Welcome To The Manage Mold Podcast With Dean Mahlstedt!

    Welcome To The Manage Mold Podcast With Dean Mahlstedt!

    In this episode, I’ll take you on a journey with me to see how a young family become involved in the restoration and cleaning industry and ran into a huge set of hurdles, dealing with mold issues, Lyme disease and issues with their home.

    In all of this, we aim to guide and help people who are going through the things our family had to go through. We want this to be the resource that we wish we had when we were dealing with all our health issues that resulted from mold in the home. We intend to elevate and not devastate, so stay tuned.

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