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Services
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What You Need
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What You Can Expect
Pro-active Environmental Technologies
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Services
Part 1 -- The Need for What Pro-active Environmental Technologies Does
A. The
Need for IAQ Services
It
is fairly commonly agreed that periodic medical checkups are beneficial
and often life-saving to those who routinely get them. The catch is
remembering or taking the time to schedule them.
The same holds true for periodic evaluations of the relative sickness
or health of a building's interior environment. If nothing is wrong,
there is peace of mind which comes from getting a clean bill of health.
If problems are indicated, earlier detection and treatment are
always to be preferred and can save more than just time and money.
They can save health and lives.
Unfortunately,
as with our own personal health, it
is usually not until many find themselves in the middle of a raging
problem that they begin to look into issues affecting their indoor
environments, and, even then, most are clueless as to the effects those
issues may have on the health and safety of the occupants.
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The
Need for Mold Services |
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Most
of the time, the problem which gets the attention
is mold, not because it is the primary or most
potentially damaging issue (though its dangerous
effects are becoming increasingly understood and
documented), but because when it gets out of hand
it can be both odiferous and visible. It
gets too obvious to ignore.
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The
presence of mold in a dwelling or building
is more than just an unsightly mess or a cleaning
nuisance.
And it represents more than the heavy expenses
and major inconveniences required to properly
remove damaged building materials and treat
construction components which have been exposed
while giving deference to the needs of the
building’s environs as repairs are being
effected.
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A
mold infestation ought never to be taken lightly
as it has been shown to not only directly cause
numerous health symptoms – from mild irritations
to serious long term and sometimes lethal conditions,
but it can also so compromise an individual’s
immune system to the extent that the person
becomes susceptible to any number of other potential
health risks, much the same way that someone
with AIDS or HIV will more likely become seriously
ill or die of some other unrelated form of infection
which a normal immune system would routinely
handle.
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And
this is not to mention the potential damage psychologically
and financially from mold and indoor air quality
related litigation which has yet to be precisely
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The
Need for General and Specific IAQ Evaluation Services |
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Either
along with the mold or separate from any mold
concerns, there may be issues related to other
environmental factors which can run the gamut
from inordinate amounts or types of dust and
particulates, to the presence of smoke, odors,
VOC's, allergens, microbial or viral pathogens,
too high or too low a relative humidity, gases
-- anything at all which adversely affects the
air we need to sustain life.
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Along
with discovering what may be stirring or festering
in the air, uncovering the causes is also important.
It stands to reason that whatever is in
the air is going to be in somebody's airways.
At some point the body will either rebel
or succumb. Either way, it is a problem waiting
to happen and can be averted if caught in time.
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exception, the key to mitigating any of these expensive
consequences is early detection, for the longer a mold
or indoor air quality problem persists, the more widespread
and dangerous it becomes, and the more costly it will
be to fix it and those it has affected. |
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