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Are you or your family suffering from constant sneezing, coughing, sore throats, or headaches? You could be suffering from sick house syndrome, stachybotrys mold, black mold spores, toxic mold, or other air born allergies.
Please bookmark this site or call us at 770 590-7880 so we may answer your questions about this serious issue that many homeowners are suffering from.
What are molds?
Molds are simple, microscopic organisms, present virtually everywhere, indoors and outdoors.
Molds, along with mushrooms and yeasts, are fungi and are needed to break down dead material and recycle nutrients in the enviroment. For molds to grow and reproduce, they need only a food source - any organic material, such as leaves, wood, paper, or dirt - and moisture. Because molds grow by digesting the organic material, they gradually destroy whatever they grow on.
Sometimes, new molds grow on old mold colonies. Mold growth on surfaces can often be seen in the form of discoloration, frequently green, gray, brown, or black but also white and other colors. Molds release countless tiny, lightweight spores, which travel through the air.
How am I exposed to indoor mold?
Everyone is exposed to some mold on a daily basis without evident harm. It is common to find mold spores in the air inside homes, and most of the airborne spores found indoors come from outdoor sources. Mold spores primarily cause health problems when they are present in large numbers and people inhale many of them. This occurs primarily when there is active mold growth within home, office, or school where people live or work. People can also be exposed to mold by touching contaminated materials and by eating contaminated foods. Molds will grow and multiply whenever conditions are right, sufficient moisture is available, and organic material is present. The following are common sources of indoor moisture that may lead to mold problems:
* Flooding
* Leaky roofs
* Stucco or EIFS leakage
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* Sprinkler spray hitting the home
* Plumbing leaks
* Overflow from sinks or sewers
* Damp basement or crawl space
* Steam from shower, cooking, or dishwasher
* Humidifiers
* Wet clothes drying indoors or clothes dryers exhausting indoors
Should I be concerned about mold in my house?
Yes, if indoor mold contamination is extensive, it can cause very high and persistent airbourne spore exposures. Persons exposed to high spore levels can become sensitized and develop allergies to the mold or other health problems. Mold growth can damage your furnishings, such as carpets, vinyl flooring, sofas, and cabinets. Clothes and shoes in damp closets can become soiled. In time, unchecked mold growth can cause serious damage to the structural integrity of the home or building.
Should I test my home for mold, bacteria, and fungus?
Yes. And let me tell you why.
Back in 1997 when I began to hear my clients talking about Sick House Syndrome from mold spores in homes I became concerned. At the time I was living in Florida and was not sure what this was. We now know that people have suffered severe health problems after watching news programs such as 60 minutes, 20/20, and now the Atlanta problems since.
We found mold contamination in many of the homes that we moisture tested and if it was caught early it could be contained.
At All Stucco and Mold Inspections Inc. our name preceeds us in quality, honest, timely, and courteous service as we are dedicated to you our customer.
Our mission at All Stucco Inspections Inc. is working for you as a independent third party stucco or EIFS home inspection company.
We have no vested interest in repairs but we can give you a list of contractors if needed and we will protect you from companies in Atlanta doing stucco inspections and repairs. If you do not hire us be sure you hire a company like us as an independent thrd party.
We can save you money and answer your questions about stucco, eifs, synthetic stucco,hardcoat, water damage, termite infestation, elastomeric coatings, Dow Corning caulking, moisture free warranty, and stucco bond.
Many home inspection companies are new to stucco or eifs which could hurt in the sale of a home or cost homeowners a lot of money in repair costs.
We have inspected over 10,000 stucco homes in the city of Atlanta and Chicago.
Our experience in eifs and stucco home inspections, chemistry, litigation, manufacturing, technical specifications, research, and development in this industry is unsurpassed.
Stucco homeowners or buyers rest assured that if these products are installed and maintained properly they will last as long if not longer than brick, wood, vinyl, or any siding system.
All Stucco Inspections Inc. does the following:
*Full moisture testing and inspection.
*Photographs of any needed upgrades.
*Written report documenting observations.
*Stucco report is ready the very same day as inspection.
*List of independant certified contractors.
*Follow-up inspection after any upgrades are completed at 1/2 the price of the original inspection cost.
Compare our services to any other stucco inspection company in Atlanta or Chicago and find out that All Stucco Inspections does the most for your dollar and no other company has as much experience as we do.
Methamphetamine use today is becoming an epidemic with labs discovered in such structures as single family dwellings, mobile homes, vehicles, hotels, open air structures; in both urban, suburban and rural areas. Call us at 770 590-7880 or 847 989-0211
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Liz Hoffman
Providing A Voice To Stop the Nation's 2nd Leading Cause of Lung Cancer
One in five people diagnosed with lung cancer have never smoked.
Prevention for your family starts with a simple test of your home.
My name is Elizabeth Hoffmann and I’m a survivor of radon induced lung cancer. Although, I have never smoked, my 15-year exposure to dangerous levels of radon in my home resulted in doctors having to remove the cancerous lower lobe of my left lung prior to my 38th birthday.
Lucky for me, they caught my cancer early. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and EPA blame radon for the deaths of 21,000 Americans every year. But, their deaths, like my cancer, could have been prevented. A simple radon test at the time we bought our home in 1988 would have alerted me to fix our house before we moved in. If I’d only known...
Since few oncologists provide a potential explanation for the cause, most non-smokers diagnosed with lung cancer never make a connection to radon exposure. I would remain clueless myself, if it hadn’t been for the determination of my family to find out why. My cousin mentioned radon to my father, who tested my house upon my return from the hospital.
The purpose of this website is two-fold: First, to put a face on radon, empowering sufferers of an apparent radon-induced lung cancer (and their families) with a voice. While it is obviously too late to prevent our cancer, our stories can convince others to prevent deadly radon exposure by testing and fixing. We can also shape public policy by convincing lawmakers and government agencies to treat the radon issue and lung cancer with the seriousness they deserve.
Second, to prevent LC victims from remaining clueless. If you or a family member has been recently diagnosed with lung cancer, it is imperative that you test your home for radon.
If you determine radon is the likely cause of your lung cancer, we’ll simply invite you to come forward and share your story. Together, we can make a difference for generations to come.
Doctors Warn of the Need For Prevention
People come into my office and say Doc Price I just don’t understand it.
How can this happen to me? I don’t smoke. Nobody ever smokes around me.
How can I have lung cancer?
While it is true that most of my lung cancer patients have had a lot of tobacco exposure, the ones that are especially sad are the people who have never smoked, have never been around secondhand smoke, who have lived “good clean lives” and lo and behold, they have a cold or bronchitis, and the chest x-ray and the cat scan show they have lung cancer.
But, it is really hard to convince the public that radon is a problem when the nation’s leading housing authority, HUD, refuses to take action to prevent radon exposure. They require a termite letter to qualify for a mortgage, yet to my knowledge a termite never killed anybody. Why are they not requiring a radon test?
We know the direct association between radon and lung cancer. But to the people at risk, it’s a totally unperceivable problem because you can’t feel it; you don’t smell it and you don’t see it.
Lung cancer kills more Americans each year (160,000) than breast, prostate and colorectal cancers combined. The EPA estimates 21,000 of them are the result of radon-induced lung cancer. That’s nearly 60 per day!”
Never underestimate the importance of prevention in all aspects of your life. If you’re a lung cancer victim aware of all the ways it is impacting you and your family – you’d be kicking yourself if you knew something a simple as a radon detection device would have allowed you to prevent this from occurring.
Please contact us at All Stucco and Mold Inspections today 770 590-7880 and schedule a Radon test which cost only $225.00
Where Does Radon Come From?
Radon is a naturally occurring odorless, tasteless, colorless radioactive gas. It is produced by the natural breakdown of radium in soil, rock and water. Many homes and other buildings, such as schools and offices have high levels of radon. Because it's odorless and invisible and the lung cancer usually shows up over a long period of exposure, the danger of radon is often underestimated.
Because of the stack effect, radon can be drawn into the home from the soil below. Common entry points are cracks in concrete floors, utility access points, spaces around floor drains, sump pits, construction joints and tiny cracks in basement walls. The concentration will depend on the source strength and the rate of pressure driven entry.
How Does Radon Induce Lung Cancer?
If inhaled, airborne radon decay products become deeply lodged or trapped in the lungs, where the alphas radiate and penetrate the cells of the mucous membranes, bronchi, and other pulmonary tissues.
The ionizing radiation energy affecting the bronchial epithelial cells is believed to initiate the process of the carcinogenesis. Although, radon-related lung cancers are mainly seen in the upper airways, radon increases the incidence of all histological types of lung cancer, including small cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma.
What is The Evidence?
More is known about the health risk of radon exposure than almost any other human carcinogen. In fact, the University of Iowa College of Public Health recently compiled a bibliography of radon epidemiology research that took 192 pages just to list!
These include extensive studies of thousands of underground miners, carried out over more than 50 years worldwide, that have consistently shown an increase in lung cancer occurrence with exposure to radon progeny.
Miner studies have produced some interesting findings. For example, at equal cumulative exposures, low exposures in the range of EPA’s 4 pCi/L Action Level over longer periods produced greater lung cancer risk that high exposures over short periods. Non-smoking miners were observed to have a significant increased risk, even after controlling for, or in the absence of other mine exposures such as asbestos, silica, diesel fumes, arsenic, chromium, nickel, and ore dust. An added synergic effect between radon exposure and cigarette smoking was also found.
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