<h1>Dehumidifiers & UV Light Air Cleaners: Two Powerful Tools for Stopping Mold Growth in Your Home</h1>

If you’ve got mold in your home, one thing is pretty clear—you have a moisture problem. And that moisture is feeding the mold that you see, and the mold you don’t see.   That also means there is a leak somewhere or standing water somewhere in the home. This can easily happen from storm damage, an old roof with worn out shingles, gutters that have been full of debris for a while and left to repeatedly overflow, plumbing leaks, even seepage through masonry or brick walls (especially old brick), and other causes.  And even if it’s a small leak, if it’s enough to raise the indoor humidity above 45-50%, that’s enough to cause mold and bacteria growth.  And yes, if your home as that musty mildew smell, you’ve probably got mold.

 

That excess moisture in the home feeds mold and bacteria growth, so the first tool to use would a quality home dehumidifier, and preferably one with a drain hose so you’re not emptying buckets every 3 hours.  A portable dehumidifier is a powerful tool that can drop humidity levels 20% or more in 2-3 days (depending on temperature, degree of moisture problem, etc.  Once you get the humidity down below 40% (30-35% is usually optimal), you’ll probably notice that the mildew smell is significantly less and after a few days can be completely gone.  While that dehumidifier is keeping moisture down, search out the leaks or water sources and fix them.

 

The other great tool to employ to help get rid of mold is UV light air cleaners in the ducts of your air conditioner. UV light air purifiers with true laboratory grade 36 watt bulbs deliver enough light units to destroy the cell structure of mold spores bacteria and other organisms, and even destroy their DNA with repeated exposure.  That means, with one of these systems mounted in the air conditioner ducts you can kill over 95% of these live airborne pollutants so that they can’t continue to grow and produce more mold in your home.  


And what many people don’t realize is that often, the coil in their air conditioners and the duct work are both breeding grounds for mold and bacteria since the coil constantly produces moisture from condensation. So if you have a UV system killing mold spores forming or being released, you’ve significantly cut down the chances of any of them spreading more mold growth to your home.

 

Obviously, if you see black mold or have heavy visible mold in your home, you probably need to call the mold remediation experts to get some advice or have them deal with it (usually safer in those situations).  But if you’re a do it yourself type person and it’s not too severe, you can definitely use portable dehumidifiers and UV light air cleaners as powerful tools to control and get rid of mold.  And even if you do have mold remediation experts do a clean-up job, you’ll want to definitely keep an eye on the indoor humidity and use a dehumidifier and UV light air purifier combination to make sure it doesn’t come back.  TIP: Buy dehumidifiers online to get the best quality units and value--department stores typically buy in bulk and their units are often not the most effective or the best buy.

As a final note, there is a new product on the market now from a company called Sanosil. This company produces a fogger unit with a special ‘sporocidal disinfectant’ that uses a peroxide and silver ion solution to destroy mold and its DNA , leaving no residue. Using a Sanosil treatment as an extra step can also be very powerful for killing mold and preventing its return.

 

Air Purifiers and Cleaners.com sells the best quality mold control products, UV light air cleaners, quiet home dehumidifiers and more, all at cheap discount prices with free shipping, every day due to our extremely low overhead. So if you need a dehumidifier, a portable air purifier, a Sanosil unit with sporocidal disinfectant, or a UV light air cleaner system for your air conditioner, you'll get the best deal possible from us--just give us a call toll-free at 1-800-701-2513. We're here to help!

 

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