With the advent of exotic pathogenic threats making headlines worldwide, the bugs and superbugs that are really impacting public spaces in the USA are not so exotic. 

Have you ever seen the marketing information for products being sold to the restoration industry and wondered to yourself, “Is all this stuff true, that they’re saying?”

Contec’s Sporicidin® Enzyme Mold Stain Cleaner is a highly effective, non-toxic, biodegradable enzymatic cleaner with a neutral pH.

As I prepare this, we are two-thirds of the way through 2016, so it is probably good time to take a look back at my predictions of future trends and see which were hits, and which were misses.

One of the biggest challenges faced by people sick from mold is the fact that doctors, friends, and other family members dismiss their symptoms. Many victims of mold sickness are labelled as hypochondriacs and accused of not being sick at all.

As members of the restoration and remediation (R&R) industry, we are in the business of ghost busting. On a daily basis, we battle mysterious, invisible and scary stuff. Most of our foes are imperceptible, being unseeable, untouchable and unsmellable.