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HEPA Vacuum Help to Remove and Prevent Mold

Regularly vacuuming of your home helps keeps your home clean from bugs, pet hair, and more importantly, mold. One very effective way to prevent mold growing in your NH home is to vacuum with a HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) vacuum cleaner.

HEPA Filters Trap Mold Spores

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HEPA filters are a must when it comes to mold remediation because they remove at least 99.97% of the large particles that are 0.3 micrometers big. Mold spores are about 1-20 micrometers, smaller than pollen grain, and HEPA filters are capable of removing an even higher percentage of these large particles!

Non-HEPA vacuum cleaner are not capable of stopping the tiny mold spores from passing through the filter and back into the air because the spores are too small for ordinary filters to trap them. The HEPA filter traps the mold spores preventing them from going back into your air and causing mold allergies.

HEPA Vacuums in Mold Removal and Remediation

HEPA vacuuming help minimizing the mold spores when you clean normally, but this filter is vital during the mold removal and remediation process.

After Peniel specialist find the mold in your home and remove it, the final stage is to vacuum the room with a HEPA vacuum cleaner. This will vacuum up any mold spores stirred up during the mold removal process. Surfaces where the mold was growing should also be HEPA vacuumed, if practical, to remove any residual mold particles.

For more about mold removal and remediation and the role of HEPA vacuum cleaners contact the mold removal specialist of NH! Peniel Environmental services all of New Hampshire for their mold removal needs!