A mould test kit allows you to test your home to see if you
have any toxic mould present. Since many moulds are not toxic and therefore not
dangerous to humans, it is important to be able to test for mould and find out
if it is black mould. The test kits on the market today let you do this yourself
without the costly job of calling in professionals to do it for you. The test
kits for mould are easy to use and use the same procedure as the professionals
do. With a mould test kit, you can really give your home a really good
inspection.
If you notice that there is mould growing in the basement or
on a surface somewhere else in the home, you can just scrape off a small
portion of it into a mould test kit. You do need to wear rubber gloves and a
facemask because if it is black mould, it could be very toxic.
You can use a paint scraper to get the mould sample for the
black mould test kit, but make sure that you disinfect it beforehand to make
sure you won’t contaminate the specimen. Then all you have to do is close the
cover on the mould test kit, print your name and address and the time and date
you took the sample. You can bring the test kit to a lab to have the mould analysed.
Black mould test kits are not expensive to buy. You can
easily pick up a mould test kit for about $15 and it only costs another $30 to
the mould sample analysed in a lab to see if it is toxic black mould. When you
look at these prices, compared to what you would have to pay professional
technicians to do the job, it is quite easy to be able to do the tests
yourself.
The hardest part of mould tests is trying to find out
whether or not you do have mould in your home. When you can’t see or smell it,
it is really hard to know where to look. Fortunately, there are mould test kits
for this as well. This type of mould test kit comes with a Petrie dish
containing a disk. All you have to do is set the dish in an area where you
think there may be mould and leave it there for about two hours. Then you close
up the kit and let the disc incubate for 48 hours. When you reopen the mould
test kit, if you notice there is a fungus growing on the disc, then you need to
have it analysed to see if it is black mould.
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