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Environmentally Friendly Mold Remediation Techniques That Significantly Reduce Childhood AsthmaFollowing is the table from the EPA guidelines that summarizescontainment use. While the option for NO CONTAINMENT maybe suitable for a home owner for the smallest mold remediation work,this is NOT an option for professionals, builders, facility managers orany situation where there are potential unknowns or children or othersensitive individuals may be involved.At a minimum even a tiny remediation area should be isolated bya Zip Wall with a fan placed in an open window pointing out; oran axial fan used to provide source level containment with theducting exhausted out the window.If you do not have this minimal set of equipment, we advise thatyou do not do any remediation work.Persons responsible for planning the remediation should review anddiscuss the six criteria below in determining the scope of the problem.1. Extent of Mold Growth. How to best remove mold contaminationdepends in part on how much is present. Estimating the surfacearea of visible mold growth is a starting point to approximate andbound the problem. The estimated remediation area shouldinclude at least two feet beyond that which is visibly impacted,because mold colonies may extend outward some distance fromthe visible growth.Remediation is not necessarily material removal. Remediationoften is a combination of removal of the worst damaged materialsand cleaning and disinfecting that which can be cleaned anddisinfected. So when above we state remediation should include atleast 2 feet beyond the visibly moldy area that does not mean youmust remove 2 feet of visibly clean material. These adjacent areascan typically be treated with disinfectant and not removed.• “Minimal” Problem should be applied to visible or anticipatedinterior contamination of less than 10 contiguous ** square ft;** Contiguous is defined for our purposes as requiring a single larger containment to bebuilt rather than smaller separate containments.56