Short YouTube transcript where Matt Kelly answers whether wet (cold) or dry (hot) fogging should be used for mold remediation. Key points: fogging does not remediate damaged material — affected materials must be removed and treated; fogging is useful as a final step to clean the air or as maintenance; wet/cold fog (larger droplets, drops faster, can be used around occupants for maintenance) vs dry/hot fog (fine fog that hangs in the air longer, penetrates crevices, recommended immediately after remediation); advises post-fog microfiber cleaning of surfaces and floors.
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Kelly's asking about mold remediation and fogging. Do you do wet fog? Do you do dry fog? Do either actually work? Great question. Because you honestly, you will find doctors, mold doctors or practitioners, they'll say not to fog. Fogging is a horrible thing to do. Fogging is not awful. It's awful if that's your way of remediating. Because fogging does not remediate. You have to remove the affected material and treat what can't be removed properly. And fogging comes at the end to help clean up the air. So, yeah, it's a bad idea if it's your only tool in your toolbox, but it's great to do at the end of remediation. And I think that's what you're asking Kelly. So if that's the case, good job. So wet or dry? So wet and dry is the same as cold and hot. Just so that you know these terms are interchangeable. Wet is cold, dry is hot fog. Wet fog, you can spray it in the air, like with Decon 30 or EC3. Decon 30 is going to have a very strong smell. EC3 does not. And it drops faster because it's droplets, right? Bigger droplets. The hot fog, which is the dry fog, goes out. It's literally a stage fogger. Okay. It just comes out like smoke. It hangs like, I've done it lots of times in different houses. It will hang for three to four hours that you have to be out of the home for, and then you come back, and then it's best to microfiber all your flat surfaces and floor if possible, to clean up what has dropped out of the air. But because it's a fog, as opposed to bigger water droplets in the air, it goes in every nook and cranny and it hangs in the air, affecting everything it's touching. So I definitely prefer a hot fog right after remediation. But cold fogging as maintenance is great because it's cheaper, it's easier, no one has to leave. Like, I've done it here in this house, and everybody's just doing what they're doing, and I'm just walking around, around them, spraying in the air. Right. So do they work? They absolutely can help with cleaning the air. But again, it doesn't replace proper remediation. It's just one of the last steps in remediation to help clean the air or as maintenance to help clean the air moving forward. So I hope that helps.
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