New Mold Remediation Method: Fire

by Michael Davis on September 22, 2009

Does your home have a serious infestation, but you can’t afford the high costs of professional mold removal? Well, the has an affordable solution that will get rid of the in your home for good – burn it down with fire.

That’s right, for the cost of a book of matches, you can have a removal solution that is, at the very least, cheap and effective. Fire is a natural killer of , just like it’s a killer to any other living organism, and burning your house down is guaranteed to get rid of and keep it from ever coming back.

Soon, Ypsilanti firefighters will burn down a vacant house on Verna Avenue in Ann Arbor, Michigan that has become infested with toxic mold.

Burning down the house was chosen as the most viable method of remediation since cleaning the house would be well beyond the cost of the home and demolition would be costly and release unsafe levels of spores into the air where they could settle on nearby houses.

That’s right, now demolition isn’t even a final solution when it comes to . Houses must be burned to the ground so that all of the dies with the house.

Presently, the lower part of the home is boarded up, and the top is encapsulated in a type of insulation to keep the inside. But soon it will all be ashes.

At least this story isn’t too tragic for the occupants of the doomed home. No one has legally lived in the house since its last occupant died four years ago. The heir is cooperating with the township to get rid of the house

Often when mold problems become too big to remediate, homeowners are forced to flee and demolish their homes. However, demolition isn’t cheap either. Demolishing this unoccupied, -infested home would have cost the city $20,000.

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