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Mold Photo Gallery

Here are some of our favorite mold photos. 

 

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This was a brand new, never occupied condo unit.  A nail went into a pipe during construction.  The pipe started leaking sometime after completion.  The unit stayed vacant...it’s owner was hoping to flip it for a quick profit.  The problem was discovered by a Realtor getting ready to list the property.

Same location, inside the wall where the pipe was apparently leaking for quite some while!  Note mushrooms along carpet, mold growth on white walls, as well as obvious mold inside the opened wall cavity.

Mushrooms coming up in a condo due to a leak.  The owner didn’t seem to be too upset about the problem!  It was going on for at least a month before the HOA saw a leak in the underground parking beneath the unit.  These walls were supposed to be white….!

This bathroom looks like it came out of the movie “Trainspotting”...but it’s in L.A.  There was a sewage leak in the ceiling above this ladies’ room.  Well, at least there are seat protectors here!

Same location as last photo, nearby the restroom.  Here’s a good illustration on how to NOT conduct a mold remediation. Note the pick axe leaning against the wall.  The firm doing the remediation was using the pick axes to pull down the walls….thereby potentially spreading BILLIONS of mold spores into the air.

Here’s a temporary work room at a construction project.  The room got soaked from rain.  Note the extensive mold...but the level of airborne mold spores were normal.  Why?  The mold was still new and hadn’t sporulated much yet.  But it sure did smell musty.  Not healthy to breath all those mold volatile organic compounds….!

A vacant dressing room in a former TV studio.  The TV studio was later demolished to make way for a school. The dressing room was part of the production offices and was located in a basement below the sound stages.  Just about the worst mold we’ve seen!

If you see this much water under your raised foundation substructure….it’s definitely not a good sign!  That’s a 4” piece of black ABS pipe partially submerged.  The greenish stuff in the water is algae, not mold.  Needless to say, the humidity level in the residence over this was pretty high.  The occupants were feeling ill until the problem was corrected.

Under the floor of condo unit, between the flooring and the top of the first level parking garage.  That’s drywall along the perimeter…. covered with Stachybotrys.  One of the few times we felt ill after exposure to mold.  If we had known how bad it was, we would've worn a respirator.

We’ve helped people with their insurance claims, and we’ve helped insurance companies fight off fraud.  There were several problems in this house.  The homeowners told us that all the mold grew just prior to our arrival, but they also said this patch had been made in the wall months ago.  Were they being honest?

Our favorite microscopic photo of mold.  This is Aspergillus niger.  The structure seen is a condiophore of the mold colony, the stalk where the spores grow.  There are hundreds of spores on this little guy.  A square inch of mold growth can have thousands of conidiophores.  Think of the impact these microscopic dandelions can have on air quality.  However, note that not all mold species have similar spore and condiophore sizes, shapes, and numbers of spores.