Should I have my home tested regularly for mold?

Should I have my home tested regularly for mold?

Black mold, toxic mold is more of a myth than anything and that leads to a lot of waste of money. People think that they have to test their indoor air for mold to find out what kind of mold they have and that is a huge waste of money because there are many companies they are only too willing and happy to do that for you and tell you what kind of mold and they'll find maybe 20 different kinds of mold spores in your house. That's pretty worthless information. There's mold everywhere, there's mold when you take a walk in the park in the summertime. What is important to recognize, and you can usually tell this with a visual inspection and by noticing the odors is where there are excessive mold growth in your house where you actually see colonies forming. There is a black smudge or a yellow smudge or a brown or green that's fuzzy, that's growing on a wall, that's growing in your basement, that's contaminating your clothing that's stored there or the books. That's evidence that there's too much moisture, mold growth that could be leading to an allergic situation for you and your children.