ozone for mold?

[Guest guest]

A local business treats fabrics and paper things with ozone to destroy mold. Is

this really effective? I think they put it in a special room with ozone for 24

hours.

It is primarily for clothing I think.

Anyone have experience with this? Does it really work? I'm not thinking of

things with obvious odors. Is it worth the risk for things that are hard or

impossible to replace?

Kathleen

[Guest guest]

Kathleen,

This can be a proper and effective use of ozone. No one is

exposed and the treatment is conducted by experienced

professionals.

I'd still be cautious with items which could be reactive to the

ozone, such as plastics, especially thin plastics. Recently dry

cleaned clothing can be a problem because the chemicals

breakdown in a sequence. And the sequence isn't always

completed to the end point.

So I'd check with them on their opinion about what ozone can and

cannot do. If they say ozone can't hurt anything I'd find someone

else to do the work.

HOWEVER, because this is for mold there is another caution.

After the ozonation, the " dead " spores and other fragments of the

mold growth will need to be removed by washing the fabrics or

HEPA vacuuming (or wiping) the papers. Ozone doesn't

disappear the mold into nothing and the leftover dead " stuff " is

still a reactant and/or irritant. It needs to be removed.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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A local business treats fabrics and paper things with ozone to destroy

mold. Is this really effective? I think they put it in a special room with

ozone for 24 hours.

It is primarily for clothing I think.

Anyone have experience with this? Does it really work? I'm not thinking

of things with obvious odors. Is it worth the risk for things that are hard

or impossible to replace?

Kathleen

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