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Environmentally Friendly Mold Remediation Techniques That Significantly Reduce Childhood Asthmasurface is painted white or it is not. Often mold assessors preferthat remediators HEPA Vac and sand as this requires complexpost-remediation assessment.4 Clients like the bleaching and painting approach as it results inbetter than new.5 Bleaching destroys spores, microparticles, as well as mycotoxins.6 Bleaching and painting wood cost much less than HEPAvacuuming and sanding.Note about HEPA Vacuuming: We do not believe that the HEPA vacwill successfully trap all the small mold spores or mold fragments orthe chemicals released during sanding chemically treated wood. Andwe believe that HEPA vacuuming can distribute some contaminantsinto the air. That being said, we prefer using a high power Shop Vacwith a drywall filter. The Shop Vac can be located outside andconnected to a long extension. A Shop Vac with a drywall dust filterlocated outside ... is much less costly than using HEPA vacs and muchmore effective and reliable.Semi-porous materials that have extensive fungal penetration orare structurally compromised. Examples include wood furniture orstructural components, wood baseboard, protected composite andengineered wood products, wood studs, paneling, and some resilientfloor coverings. When extensively colonized, such items are not easilyor cost-effectively cleaned and decontaminated. They should bebagged, and discarded. If contaminated structural materials cannot beremoved and the structural integrity of the material has not beenjeopardized, it may be acceptable to clean, disinfect, and encapsulate.In such cases bleach – preferably strong bleach – should be used forcleaning and disinfecting.Since dilute bleach is actually a poor cleaning agent and can beinactivated by organic matter, it is critical to thoroughly clean offmajor visible growth and soiling before bleaching with diluted bleach.Strong bleach, rather than diluted bleach, can do a very good job of79