Unusual mold request...

[James E. Braun, CMI]

Originally Posted by badair

no need to try and put words into what i typed
and no to both in very specific situations

someone could find a qualified Industrial Hygienist in the land of MO

a novel consumer protection concept if one was really concerned could be to
pass info on to client
have client contact UCMO
set property up as an educational field test
may save client thousands and get precision results
but that interferes with the all mighty quest for $$$

Barry,
That school only teaches an eight hour mold class to Industrial Hygienists, the last time I heard.
Russell actually knows more about mold then the most Industrial Hygienist.

The problem is there is not too many people who knows about mold in Missouri. I am turning down work because I cannot get to it. I am working on a 20,000 square feet pediatric clinic right now. They brought in an Industrial Hygienist from New York for the initial evaluation but they decided not to use him to write the mold remediation protocol. After I read his said nothing report, I understood why.

Russell's client will have the hardest problem finding a mold remediator that knows what they are doing. The good ones are a good six weeks out. Wait tell Russell has to clear a normal Missouri mold remediator's work. I had to train all the remediator's in my area and I found out most is untrainable. Sad but true.

[James E. Braun, CMI]

So today I am performing my final assessment, going through my rough draft of the mold remediation protocol at the pediatric clinic. It has only been 9 days since I started the job. The tenant who is going to occupy the pediatric clinic gets anxious and has this duct cleaning company (under the supervision of a different Certified Industrial Hygienist) start cleaning on the Variable Air Volume boxes (chiller system) that is in about each diagnosis room. They are not even removing the moldy insulation from the VAV boxes. They are cleaning the HVAC system before even removing the moldy building materials and not even containing the system from the over 2,000 spores per cubic meter of Asperities/Penicillium, I recently detected. I hope they do not want me to clear these clowns' work, because it is not going to happen. I am glad it was not my client (the building administrator) who did something that stupid. Sad but true.

[Russell J. Hensel]

I have a partical counter for medical buildings to ensure the filters are operating as intended on the remediation equipment. If they are this careless think about all the mold they BROUGHT in by not cleaning their equipment and changing their filters!

[James E. Braun, CMI]

Tell your remediators to just push a lot of negative air by bringing fresh air in instead of trying to clean the air that is already in the building. The more air moved the better. Contact me if you want the details.