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Long-Term Effects of Black Mold Exposure

Long-Term Effects of Black Mold Exposure

When black mold is present in your home, it can be stressful for you and your family, and the various symptoms and possibilities are undeniably problematic, especially when you don’t know where the mold is coming from. Thankfully, mold inspections in Toronto are an effective and free way to identify the source of mold exposure in your home.  To ensure your place is completely...

How to Know if Mold is Affecting Your Children?

How to Know if Mold is Affecting Your Children?

Your children are the centre of your life, and you want to do everything to ensure that they’re safe and healthy. When mold is present in your home, it can harm everyone, especially your kids. Restoration companies in Toronto highly recommend getting your home inspected for mold and removing it professionally if needed. Since mold is common, many homeowners don’t realize the...

Why Ventilation is the Key to Attic Mold Removal?

Why Ventilation is the Key to Attic Mold Removal?

From everyday tasks such as showering or running the dishwasher, moisture can quickly rise to your attic if you do not have proper ventilation throughout your home. Adequate attic ventilation can drastically reduce mold growth by preventing excess moisture in the area. Ventilation contributes significantly to attic mold removal but does not entirely eliminate the problem. In order to ensure that...

How to Know if You

How to Know if You

When restoration companies in Toronto conduct asbestos testing, they’ll look for one of two main categories of asbestos - serpentine or amphibole. During asbestos testing in Toronto, the mineral is divided into these two groups based on their physical and chemical properties. It’s important for professionals to easily identify one type of asbestos from another due to their potential...

How to Manage Electrical Risks During Flood Basement Cleanup

How to Manage Electrical Risks During Flood Basement Cleanup

If your residential or commercial falls victim to water damage in Toronto, the need for flooded basement clean up and repair is urgent. If not dealt with immediately, the water lingering in your property breeds many problems requiring advanced resources, like mold removal. While mold is a severe form of secondary water damage, as well as electrical damage, which could easily occur if water damage...

How Can Floods Trigger Asbestos Exposure?

How Can Floods Trigger Asbestos Exposure?

Before asbestos removal in Toronto was common practice and the mineral was banned by the federal government, asbestos started being mined in Canada around 1878. In the decades following, well into the 20th Century, the mineral was used in the construction of residential, commercial, industrial, and public buildings across the country. Today, asbestos is still found in many construction materials,...

How to Manage Sump Pump Water Damage Toronto

How to Manage Sump Pump Water Damage Toronto

A sump pump is often the unsung hero during torrential downpours, saving your property from water damage and flooding. However, if your sump pump fails and water infiltrates your property, it can be stressful to navigate the situation. When it comes to sump pump water damage and needing basement flood clean up, contact Canada's Restoration Services. Our team of certified and trusted...

Unexpected Hiding Spots for Mold in Toronto

Unexpected Hiding Spots for Mold in Toronto

While mold infestations are never welcome, they still tend to pop up in unexpected hiding spots every now and then. Mold spores gravitate towards damp and dark areas, so finding some hidden mold outbreaks may be difficult. You may not spot mold right away, but you will smell it; if you catch a whiff of the distinct odour, contact Canada’s Restoration Services for a mold inspection in...

Overland vs Ground Water Damage Toronto

Overland vs Ground Water Damage Toronto

Water damage in Toronto is a burden, especially with extended amounts of rainfall in the spring and summertime. From flooded basement cleanup to roof damage, there are two main types of water damage - overland vs. groundwater damage. These types of water damage are relevant as you look at water damage restoration and when dealing with insurance companies. When you work with Canada's...

How Climate Change is Affecting Your Home

How Climate Change is Affecting Your Home

While water damage in Toronto isn’t new to property owners throughout the city, the frequency and severity of flooding is likely to increase as climate change gets worse. Sometimes flooded basement cleanup is the result of man-made problems such as a broken or burst pipe, clogged drain, or a leak. But, other times storms and extreme weather trigger water damage events that affect property...

How to Navigate Mycotoxins with Mold Removal Toronto

How to Navigate Mycotoxins with Mold Removal Toronto

If mold has infested your property, it's essential that mold removal in Toronto is conducted immediately by experienced restoration companies in Toronto. By eradicating the presence of mold, you're minimizing any potential health implications you may face from exposure to different mold species. In Toronto, there are over 500 species of mold that have been identified to have harmful...

What is a Volatile Organic Compound?

What is a Volatile Organic Compound?

Several products that are used to maintain and build properties can contain and release hazardous chemicals into the air that we breathe in our homes.In older properties, asbestos testing in Toronto has found that some products containing VOCs may also contain asbestos elements, exacerbating an already severe health risk. Inhaling these chemicals, also known as Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC),...

Why You Should Never Avoid White Mold Removal in Toronto

Why You Should Never Avoid White Mold Removal in Toronto

Whether in your home or commercial property, mold can sneak up on you when you least expect it. There are many species of mold, with the most notable being black mold which infamously releases toxins causing severe illness. But, black mold isn't the only mold you should be on the lookout for; more than 500 species have been identified via professional mold inspections in Toronto. White mold...

Are Your Allergy-Like Symptoms Actually Mold?

Are Your Allergy-Like Symptoms Actually Mold?

Summer has arrived, and without mold removal in Toronto, the threat of mold-induced allergy symptoms. The symptoms of mold exposure resemble those of allergies—runny nose, congestion, sneezing and itchy watery eyes—but affect 15-20 percent of the Canadian population. It’s likely that you've experienced allergies and those annoying allergy-like symptoms at one point or...

Attic Mold Removal for Plywood

Attic Mold Removal for Plywood

Attic mold removal is urgent for many reasons, but unlike bathroom mold removal, which can sometimes be managed with do-it-yourself mold removal sprays, remediation of attic mold requires an expert remediation service like Canada’s Restoration Services. Inherently the attic is equipped with more hazards than other home areas. But, it’s also especially susceptible to mold due to water...

Home Renovation Surprises You Can Avoid

Home Renovation Surprises You Can Avoid

Renovation season is upon us. With many homeowners having shelved their remodels and home upgrades in the past two years, now more than ever, it's time to break ground and get started on revamping your property. When you begin a renovation, it's important to remember that there is almost always a surprise factor that homeowners run into, making renovations more complicated than initially...

Key Steps to Manage Laundry Room Mold in Toronto

Key Steps to Manage Laundry Room Mold in Toronto

Basements, attics, kitchens, and bathrooms are often the first areas that come to mind when thinking of where mold may be in your home. However, it’s important not to forget about your  laundry room seeing as it provides an ideal target for black mold growth, from moisture to cellulose. If you notice the faint yet distinct smell of mold, contact Canada's Restoration Services for a...

How to Manage Moisture in Your Walls

How to Manage Moisture in Your Walls

As temperatures rise around the Greater Toronto Area, an uptick in humidity often brings a specific set of troubles to the city’s commercial and residential properties. In many cases moisture that builds in the walls and building materials is a surprise that’s out of your control. To stop it from developing into a serious problem requiring mold remediation in Toronto, regular...

Preventative Asbestos Removal vs Reactive Asbestos Removal

Preventative Asbestos Removal vs Reactive Asbestos Removal

While asbestos is no longer actively used in construction around Canada, asbestos testing in Mississauga continues to identify the mineral in building materials in residential and commercial properties across the city. Sometimes, the asbestos discovery comes by surprise, making renovations or routine maintenance more hazardous than initially expected. Before initiating construction in properties,...

Tips to Streamline Office Flood Cleanup

Tips to Streamline Office Flood Cleanup

After a long heavy storm or a freak plumbing accident, it is not uncommon for business owners or employees to return to the office after an evening or weekend away to find a waterlogged office in desperate need of water damage restoration or flood cleanup. Because office spaces are unoccupied during vacation time, weekends, and evenings, water breaches can go unnoticed for quite some time without...

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