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MoldCheck™
Mold Test Kits
The MoldCheck™ Mold Test Kit is an easy to use home and office mold testing system.
One mold test kit film is opened in each room to be tested. After the one hour
mold spore collection, just add the activating liquid droplet and press closed. Then simply count the mold spores
colonies after 3-4+ days to find your high spore count rooms. Once you have found
your high spore count rooms you have identified the room(s) with the
most probable source of the mold contamination.
Surface Testing
Have you found the source of suspect mold growth and safely want to clean it up?
- Then you want to use the MoldCheck™
Surface Mold Test Method
and Clean-Up Guide.
Air/Dust Testing
If
you suspect you have a
source of hidden mold? Then you want to use the MoldCheck™ Mold Test Kit as a dust and airborne mold contamination investigation system. (See
MoldCheck™ Kits #5, #10 and #15.)
The complete MoldCheck™
Mold Test Kits for Air and Dust include #5, #10 or #15 Mold Testing Setups which include:
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Easy to use Test Kit instructions |
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Easy to use
mold
test films that collect and grow mold spores which are
viewed and counted through the clear plastic cover |
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The Building Detective GuideTM which will help you search
for hidden moisture and mold sources |
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A
Mold Clean Up GuideTM
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Surface Testing
- includes 2 surface test swabs and instructions. |
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Here are the 3
EASY STEPS to a
MoldCheck™
air or surface test!
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Air Testing |
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Surface Testing |
Stir-up the air in each room. Then open one test film
in each room. (*See note about respiratory protection.) |
 Wipe the swab
onto the surface to be tested. Then wipe the swab between the films in the
pattern of an "x". |
After one hour of collection, squeeze the activating liquid between the films
and press closed. |
Squeeze the
activating liquid between the films and press closed. |
Example of high air count.
Count mold spore colonies as they grow to visible size on days 3, 4 and 5. |
Example of gross surface contamination.
Check the mold colonies as they grow
to visible size on days 3, 4, 5+. |
NOTE: Air Testing
*It is important to stir up mold spores which have settled out
of the air. You will use a small towel, newspaper or similar instrument to briefly fan the air (15
seconds) on the floor of the area to
be tested. If you don't
do this you will almost always obtain a false (low) collection of the overall
spore load in the room, since most mold spores settle out like dust within one
hour. Of course - wear a face dust mask if you have a respiratory
condition like you would if you were doing heavy cleaning.
Indoors:
Test your rooms. After 72 hours count the visible spore colonies on each of your indoor test films.
Organize your rooms from the lowest to the highest counts. If there is a source of indoor mold growth, it is usually
in or right next to the room with the highest mold spore count. Go to the area with the highest spore count and begin
your search for a source of mold contamination and moisture intrusion using "The Building Detective Guide™."
Outdoors:
(Optional) The outdoor spore count provides a background reference count. During
the outdoor growing season (above 50° F) outdoor mold spore counts will almost always be
much higher than indoor counts, in a closed air-conditioned building. Outdoor mold spore settling counts can range from zero in the winter to over 400 spores
per hour in the growing seasons of spring, summer and fall. Outdoor sampling is
optional.
Using this new MoldCheck™ Mold Test Kits will help you detect,
track down and eliminate excessive indoor mold spores and
perhaps lower your frequency of allergic episodes and medication needs at home or work.
MoldCheck™ Kits
"as good as it gets"
in do-it-yourself mold testing, mold detection, mold clean-up, mold removal, toxic mold screening, and black mold education.
Purchase Orders from Schools or Government Agencies are accepted.
Mold Identification/Laboratory Testing
If your surface test confirms you have mold contamination and
you want to have the mold identified, send the mold
sampling swab to a "specialized testing laboratory." For a separate fee,
this specialized laboratory can conduct microscopic identification of all the
molds on your
sample.
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