Leaky Roofs And Ice Dams Are Not A Good Combination For Your Home In Andover

1/14/2019 (Permalink)

If you ever notice mold after your roof leaks in the winter, call SERVPRO of Coon Rapids / Central Anoka County!

Mold Damage Experts In Andover Talk About Leaky Roofs And Ice Dams

In the winter time, snow and ice can create problems inside your Andover home. Snow can build up and cause your roofing materials to cave in and create mold damage inside your house. If the ice on your roof gets heavy, it can create a situation where materials get saturated and start to leak. Slow leaks like these can elevate moisture and humidity levels inside your attic crawlspace. When moisture gets high in tight, confined spaces like attics problems with mold damage are likely.

Attics are the home to several microbes that exist naturally. Once moisture levels within organic substances inside your house rise, mold damage mitigation in Andover must occur by a professional contractor like SERVPRO so that the issues do not get worse. Attics are a prime place for fungal development to take place due to the high number of organic materials like your wooden trusses and the paper on the back of your insulation. Humidity levels are already higher in these tight spots than in the living area of your residence. Once a small leak in your roof develops, fungi that you may not be able to see can form.

Ice dams can also form on the edge of your roof and prevent moisture from running off. Sometimes attics are poorly insulated making problems with fungi worse. Once a fungus develops inside your attic, hidden mold can exist on the surfaces of your building materials. After microbes activate the contamination grows in size and starts to release reproductive seed-like spores into the air.

If problems do not get dealt with by a professional restoration company such as SERVPRO immediately, then air quality issues could result. Once your HVAC system gets contaminated mold can start to form in other places inside your residence. Whenever we mitigate problems in attics, we seal off the enclosure so that spores and other harmful particles cannot get released into your building's air flow.

If you ever notice mold after your roof leaks in the winter, call SERVPRO of Coon Rapids / Central Anoka County at (763) 712-9712 seven days a week.

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