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(3) Smell mold (the digestive gas emitted by mold eating home or building) and want to test a number of surfaces upon which elevated levels of airborne mold spores may have landed or been deposited, such as on walls, window sills, window and door trim, refrigerator top, kitchen cabinet tops, undusted furniture, heating/cooling duct registers, and return air filter in heating/cooling system.
The easy steps involved in tape lift sampling are---
1. Cut a three-inch (3”) long strip of one-inch (1”) wide, transparent sticky tape.
2. While wearing rubber gloves and a breathing respirator mask (with organic vapor filters) from local hardware or home improvement store, press tape strip firmly (sticky side down) onto visible mold growth or onto surface being tested.
3. Remove (peel back) tape from surface.
4. Open up a small ziplock bag (a transparent, easily sealable plastic storage bag), and press lightly lift tape sample sticky side onto inside sidewall of ziplock bag.
5. Close [zip shut] ziplock bag completely. Tape it shut if necessary to make sure no airborne mold spores can escape.
6. Attach to outside of ziplock bag a large adhesive label with tester’s name, date of sampling, property address, precise testing location at that address (e.g., “air conditioning duct register in living room”), testing method (“lift tape sampling”), and name, postal address, email address, phone number, and fax number (if any} of person submitting sample to mold laboratory.
7. Mail or express collected lift tape samples (including payment of lab’s analysis fee} to mold analysis laboratory for mold species identification and quantification.
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