Matt Kelly walks through mold remediation after a roof leak. If it's on roof sheeting, replace it. If it traveled through insulation and pooled on the vapor barrier, you'll need to remove insulation and replace drywall. For mold on structural trusses you can't replace, hire a contractor for dry-ice or soda blasting.
Lynn is asking about the attic. How can you remove mold from an attic after a leak in the roof? Attics are tricky because they're not fun places to work. And you've got multiple locations for the mold to possibly be growing. And each one can mean a different technique needs to be done to fix it. So, for example, if you had whatever the cause, a hole in the roof or it came through a vent or by a satellite dish screw or around a chimney, whatever it was, if it's in the attic and the mold's just coming in the roof and then going. And the water's going along the sheeting and the sheeting. I've seen sheeting that's just black. Okay. If that's the case, I would be having that the. The sheeting pulled right off and fresh put down. So if it's on the sheeting, you can have that. Sometimes the water comes down straight through the insulation, hits the plastic vapor barrier there underneath the insulation, and then it flows until it finds like where staples went through to staple the vapor barrier up. And then you can have all mold on that attic side of the drywall. Well, now if it was, say it's in my office here and it's on that drywall. Well, now the ceiling in here needs to come down after that insulation is pushed to the side or vacked out. And you got to replace that drywall. Now say that water is getting on the trusses, something you can't replace. Well, now you may need to have those dry iced or soda blasted. So it's depending where it is if the material can be removed or not. Preferably you're going to have any contaminated moldy material removed. That's always best because you're not taking any chances. But if it is on material that can't be replaced, you still have to have someone that knows what they're doing to treat that material in its place. So I hope that helps. Lynn, it's not fun. I'm sorry that your attic is affected because getting people to work on the house properly is one thing. Now getting them to go work in the attic, which is a sucky location to work is hard. But that gives you an idea on what to do with sheeting drywall trusses on an angle. A few options there. I hope that helps.
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