Re: SODABLAST MOLD

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John - The common/popular antimicrobials that are used for
white glove cleaning only have a limited effect on mold spore.
There are some high end products which are effective
sporocides, however, you generally only see the cheap stuff
being used for remediation jobs.

The problem with soda blasting is it dislodges
spores/hypha/fungal components and spreads them throughout the
remediation site and beyond. The biogrowth that is present in
cracks, crevices and pores are only driven deeper into the
surface. Then when the remediator applies their antimicrobial,
it is totally ineffective on the surviving fungal components
which have now found a new home deeper in the surface.

When the clearance study is performed, surface lifts and air
sampling show no contamination - assuming that extensive air
scrubbing, extensive HEPA vacuuming, and lots of white glove
cleaning has been performed (this is seldom the case).
However, contamination still resides in pores and non-
remediated areas of the structure. All that is necessary is
for minimal growing conditions to be met once again and presto-
chango mold contamination is back.

This is why many remediators are being called back a year
after a soda remediation job has been performed. Many times
the contamination is covering a greater area than the original
growth thanks to the spreading of contamination. Soda blasting
has a Wow Factor by abrading surfaces to a clean appearance.
What the customer does not understand is that the rest of
their structure is now contaminated. Geee, thanks a lot.

Yet another gimmic from the remediation industry.

On 9/07/06, johncodie wrote:
> Nothing kills mold spores! It is an inherent ingredient in
> the product that is sold. You can probably change the
> chemical compositon by plasma, or fusion of fire which is
> about the same thing. The remediation groups were trying to
> sell a product sold for coating cow utters after being milked
> to prevent bacteria spread and milk comtamination. Sure it
> would inhibit bacteria but its shelf life was so short it
> would not hold up to the needs of a home. Can you imagine
> coating your interior home with cow utter dip and then
> encasing that in a varnish? Listening in on the mediation
> group they were planning on just painting over the mold but
> were not sure how to prevent it from bleeding through before
> they finshed the job. Baking soda in the pool does make the
> pH neutral to let the clorine work properly. The algea dies
> from the clorine and is filtered out. Abrasing porious
items
> with backing soda just removes the odor but does not prevent
> the wicking action that the pores develop when embeded
within
> its host. If the idea is an abrassive medium, just use a
> commercial product like sand to get the surface ready for a
> primer, and seal. If properly dried and primer seal is
> applied the mold can be held in a suspended state.
>
> On 9/05/06, JOE ALEXANDER wrote:
>> baking soda is the media used in sodablasting. it is not
>> caustic and it also kills moel spores