Professional Handyman Services in Woburn, MA

A recent customer had water and mold damage in their attic. Prior to having me help they hired a mold remediation company to help. That company came and removed compromised insulation and cleaned mold in the attic. That's good.nnHowever, they never fixed bathroom vent duct that likely was the root cause of the problem to begin with. Their bathroom vent tubing was crushed, broken, and unattached at both the bathroom fan and the roof exhaust exit vent hole. I was shocked when I first saw! The first three pictures of the vent tubing is what I found when I arrived. That's amazingly bad! nnThe last two pictures I took show properly installed insulated fan venting duct. So what's my point? nnIf you ever have water and mold issue in your attic make sure you learn and understand why it's happening in the first place. Then have any remediation company explain how they will remediate the water and mold damage including the solving the root cause of the problem. nnA bathroom fan that is vented into the ceiling/attic/rafters, using non insulated ducts that are exposed to extreme cold and hot will create moisture within the duct work. If that condensed water doesn't have time to dry out it can create small pools of moldy water and could drip into the house via the ceiling/attic/rafters. Additionally, if the vent duct is broken and venting into locations inside the ceiling/attic/rafters then water and mold will develop and create expensive remediation problems.nnNet-net, take the time to get into your ceiling/attic/rafters to see what's happening first. Or call someone like me who will try to provide sound advice and guidance on the issue. Then remediate the problem down to its root cause.