Remodeling Your Bathroom: What to Do If You Find Mold

Remodeling Your Bathroom:  What to Do If You Find Mold

Each year, thousands of homeowners make the decision to have their bathrooms remodeled.  Many of those homeowners enjoy doing their remodeling, but there are others who feel as if they opened up a can of worms. Those homeowners are likely the unlucky bunch who found mold in their bathroom.  If you were remodeling your bathroom and you find mold, do you know what to do?  Unfortunately, a large number of individuals would not.

Before you familiarize yourself with what you should do if you find mold in your bathroom, it is important to examine what mold is. Mold is scientifically described as being a microscopic fungus.  This fungus not only looks unattractive, but it can be dangerous.  While some types of mold are considered relatively harmless, there are other types of mold that are considered toxic.  Unfortunately, due to the moisture that can be found inside most bathrooms, black, toxic mold can be found in thousands of bathrooms in the United States.  If you start to remodel your bathroom and you find mold under your toilet or even under you floor tiles, there is a good chance that you may have black mold on your hands.

As previously mentioned, black mold is often defined as being a toxic mold. This is because it is one of the most dangerous types of all molds.  In addition to having respiratory problems, you may develop headaches, skin rashes, fevers, and other flu-like symptoms.  Although your first impulse may be to remove the mold yourself, you may want to rethink your decision to do so.  When mold is improperly removed, mold spores can spread throughout the rest of your home. That is why it may be good to call upon a professional.  That professional will likely be a mold removal specialist or an air quality control specialist.

Although it can be quite expensive to have your mold tested and removed, you will want to do so.  If your mold is not taken care of, professionally, it can begin to spread and even move into other parts of your home. Once you have had all of your mold removed from your bathroom, no matter what type of mold it is, you will want to take steps to prevent another mold outbreak from occurring in the future. You can easily do this by incorporating a few extra projects into your bathroom remodeling plan.  It may be a good idea to make sure that your bathroom has a fan installed in it.

If you do not already have a bathroom fan installed in your bathroom, you will want to get one right away. It has been noted that working bathroom fans help to eliminate the moisture that mold, particularly black mold, thrives off of. No matter what type of bathroom fan you would like to purchase, whether it be a traditional bathroom fan or a decorative one, you should be able to find whatever you are looking for online or at one of your local home improvement stores.

Regardless of where you purchase a bathroom fan from, you are advised to purchase one, even if you don’t already have a mold problem.  Bathroom remodeling projects, even relatively small projects, can get quite costly. For that reasons, you will want to make sure that you do everything to protect your newly remodeled bathroom from being attacked by mold

Remodeling Your Kitchen: Choosing Your Bathroom Cabinets

Are you planning on remodeling your bathroom in the upcoming days, weeks, or months?  If so, have you decided what you would like to have remodeled?  There are some homeowners who only choose to remodel a small portion of their bathroom, but there are others who wish to remodel every square inch of it.  Whether you are only looking to plan a small remodeling project or a large one, there is a good chance that you may be in need of new bathroom cabinets.

When it comes to bathroom cabinets, you will find that not everyone needs or wants them. There are some homeowners who choose to keep their bathrooms as simple as they could possible be, which often includes leaving the cabinets out of the bathroom. Despite the fact that not all homeowners have cabinets inside their bathrooms, a large number of them do.  One of the reasons for that is storage space.  Whether you are looking for a place to store your bath towels or your health and beauty products, a bathroom cabinet may come in handy.

Whether you are looking to replace your old bathroom cabinets with new ones or if you are installing cabinets in your bathroom for the first time, you will need to make a decision. That decision is what type of cabinets you would like to purchase. Although it may seem like a fairly easy decision to make, you may find that it isn’t as easy as you originally thought.  One of the reasons for that is because all of the choices that you will have.  When it comes to buying new cabinets for your bathroom, you will find that you, literally, have an unlimited number of different options. 

Perhaps, the best thing to do, when looking for new bathroom cabinets, is decide what you would like to have or, at least, where you would like to have them. For instance, if you are remodeling the rest of your bathroom, there is a chance that you may have already decided on a new bathroom sink or toilet. If that is the case, you will want to choose bathroom cabinets that will match the rest of your remodeled bathroom.  Although you may be unable to pre-select a style, you should at least be able to decide on a color.  The color, alone, may come in handy when shopping for a new set of bathroom cabinets.  

In addition to the color, it is also important that you determine how much space you have available for cabinets.  This is important because bathroom cabinets come in a number of different sizes, shapes, and styles. Many bathroom cabinets can be resized, with the right training or professional assistance, but it may be impossible to do it will all cabinets. That is why it is advised that you know, ahead of time, how much room you will have for your bathroom cabinets.  The last thing that you will want is to be stuck with a set of cabinets that are too big for your bathroom.

Once you have decided what size bathroom cabinets you need, as well was what color cabinets you want, you may want to start shopping. Whether you do your shopping online or in one of your local home improvement stores, you will find that shopping, almost always, makes it easier to find the bathroom cabinets of your dreams. In fact, if you are remodeling the rest of your bathroom, it may be a good idea to make all of your purchases at the same time.  Doing so may help to ensure that all of the bathroom fixtures, materials, and supplies used will compliment each other; often resulting in the best bathroom ever. 

Whether you decide to shop for your bathroom cabinets, as well as the rest of your bathroom remodeling supplies, online or in one of your local home improvement stores, it is important that you take a minute to examine your decision. Bathroom remodeling projects can not only take a lot of time, but a lot of money; therefore, you will want to make sure that your decision is the right one.