Mold Firm

Carson Jeffries: Good morning, I'm Carson Jeffries with the Mold Firm and I'm here today with long-time friend and owner of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. Richard Johnson: My name is Richard Johnson and I'm the President/CEO of Air Allergen & Mold Testing. We do have data because we've done thousands and thousands of these samples over the years. We have data that we can say, if the amount of mold spores in the carpet is normal, if they tend to be water damage spores, or if they tend to be what we called phylloplane spores, which are much less likely to have some kind of a problem, and we can give some guidances in carpet dust, for instance. There's only three things you can do with a carpet – you can vacuum it with a HEPA filter vacuum, if you don't use a HEPA filter vacuum, it's just going to broadcast it out into the air, and even with HEPA filter vacuum, some of that stuff is going to get out into the air. That's the real fine particulate spores. Or you can clean the carpet. Or you can replace the carpe