October 19, 2025 • 9 mins
Mindy and Boots speak with Zach Duffy from Mold Mentor and share their own personal experience with mold!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, boy, it's been raining a lot today. It started
all through the night, and when it rained this hard,
even though it's been so dry really for so many
weeks in a row here all across the Buckeye state.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
But it reminds you of.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Do you have to check your basement because when it
rained this hard, that can do a lot of damage
to that basement.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
You're something, but some some boways I've had to happen
malt that's the worst thing ever.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It was the worst thing. If you have carpet down
the basement and stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, even if they tear it up, it still gets
in the corner. You got in the corners.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You said we had it in the corners and mine went.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Up to the plot through the drywall.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
What did you wind up doing?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
We had I had luckily I had the insurance.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Time they came in as gutted my basement basically and
redid the whole thing. So I didn't think I had
a mold problem, but I probably did because you can't
see them old right and yours?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Did you get no more drywall?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I'm gonna let Zach Duffy with mold mentor this is
what you do this is your business, because you know
how common of a problem this is. I don't think
most people really do, really life though, how common?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Yeah, I mean I can probably find visible mold in
half of the homes that people invite me into if
I give it enough time.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
When you get called to a house that think they
have mold, you look at the people go you got
mold because you look sick.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Can you tell by the way they look.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
She looked at me and said, Omini, I know you've
got moldy.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, I mean she was green and kind of hunched
over and like she just tooked a pack of SIGs.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Some people are I think some people get sick from
worrying about mold.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Okay, And so if you if you bring me out.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
We can pull collect some air samples, get them off
to a laboratory for analysis, and then we can confirm
or rule out so you don't have to worry.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So let's get Randy on the line here, because it
was really Randy's idea.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I look at it and I don't really care.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Want to pay a bill.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
What if it's mold, we can live with it.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
But Randy's on the line with us right now, and Randy,
you were a lot more attentive to what you thought
was mold in the corners of her basement. And honestly,
it's been bothering you for a while, hasn't it.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
Yes, it had. I had a little to do list
and that was one of the things. And uh then
when I heard Zach talk about it on your show,
and then I started thinking every time like, I just
got to make a call. So that's what we did.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
We brought you into the house.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Your first thing you did was you went around every
corner and you wanted to inspect it. You can look
at and see what you think the problem is, right Zach,
that's right.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Well, the first thing I did was try and figure
out Randy's spelling of his last name, and then I
went through the house.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Quarter what exactly, And that's why I never took it quarter.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
What quarter cray. Wow, that's it tells you a lot
right there.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
I like the main but I'll know nobody will ever
stalk me for getting me mixed up with Dreer.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So so then what did you do, Zach?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You just walked through and I thought you handled everything
so well, so professional and what Randy and I appreciated
the most is you know, our dogs are our kids,
and you weren't like, can you put the dogs in
the backyard? Which I understand if people are like that.
You know they're coming to your house to do a service.
You preciate that, and yeah, we'll put the dogs in
the back But you didn't do that. You're like, oh,
(03:04):
your dogs are so clol I want to play with
your dogs.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Yeah, the dogs are following us around for sure, trying
to figure out and and it made me want to
consider training one of the dogs to sniff out mold
to help me out during inspections.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
That's that's an actual thing, there is.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It is a thing.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Yeah, yeah, multeniffing dogs. But we didn't need that at
your house.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
You you could see it right away.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Yeah, in the unfinished part of the basement. It hides.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Moltends to hide, and finished basements a lot easier behind
the drywall, usually downlow behind base boards.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So let me visualize the chemistry here, Randy, What did
your wall look like where had the mold?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Was it just the poor wall or do you guys.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Have brick do just block absorbed more than poured walls?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
For probably? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Okay, so then what did you do to treat it?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Because Randy took pictures before and then you sent us after.
And Randy, what did you think when you went down
the basement when you saw the after?
Speaker 7 (04:00):
I was really impressed because that's what I've been doing,
is keeping everything away from the two corners, which is
hard to do because you want to store stuff on
the unfinished side. And but it looked awful. You know,
it's kind of dim, grungy looking. And when we got back,
you know, because he was doing it, we had to
run from errands. He had gotten all the mold off
(04:22):
and then put a white cony on and it really
brightened up the basement, and I was it was more
than I expected. I expected him to get the mold
off and it looked okay, but he really got the
mold off and then it looked great, so almost like
when we moved in. So I appreciated that because I
wasn't sure how it was going to go. And plus
(04:43):
the air freshery had down there was you know, when
we came back into whole house in all great. It
really did.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And we with four dogs, with four dogs, our house
never smells great. We're like man, we ought to have
Zach Duffy come in every month just so it smells
good in here. But he was so impressing, That's why
I wanted him to to get us get on the
line with you.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Is it like a Kilts type thing you put down
or I know that's a generic statement, but what white
stuff did you put down?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
So we pick up stuff that's made designed for professional
use for restoration and not stuff that is available.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Like at home depots through distributor you can buy it online.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
But uh, you know, the the products we use are
the big difference is the money that they put into
independent third party you know, case studies and testing to
prove that it works.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Whereas if you're.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
At home depot picking something up like kills, I don't
think there's much independent study on that stuff.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
It's all marketing.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Brandy won't have mold back in those corners anymore.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Not if the Randy says that the down spouts were
underground drain pipes have been repaired and so if that's true,
then no.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So, Randy, were you feeling any illness or sickness or
whatever you'll say from that at all or did you?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Guys?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That's just from living.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Right, I just kept everything away from the corners in
that because I saw it. But I just you know,
when you get busy with life kind of just say
but actually is pretty easy. I called that, he come over,
gave me his quote. We thought it was fair. He
came over a second time, knocked it out, and uh,
that was it. So I didn't really infringe, U pull
on our normal day to day grind.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And that's true.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
So we were really appreciated it.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, it was so.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Much easier than we thought. And now we can breathe.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
There is mold airborne or how does it floats around
like dust?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Aerodynamic? Think paper airplanes or a little parachute. G I, Joe, men,
it's designed.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Are they bug type or they know they want to
get to you? Or is this coincidental that it gets
in your nostrils. I don't know how you get it.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
They're micro organisms and they have a defense mechanism. They
produce micro toxins, which are mold poisons to get rid
of us as people, they would they know that we
will get rid of.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
The mold if they don't get rid of us, So
it is battle.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
So they got purple hair where the humans are the
only predator to mold on planet Earth.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Really true story. They don't bother dogs or mice.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Dogs don't bother mold. Okay, so it's the only creditor
too that we take them out.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I know you're saying, Randy, thanks for calling.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I'm glad you did, and I know you would recommend
the mold mentor for sure. How can people get a
hold of you, Zach If they're like, we need to
have him in our basement because we need to get
this done, you.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Will get checked out for it, you know.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I Okay, go ahead, Yeah, moldmenttor Ohio dot com. Moldmenttor
Ohio dot com. I won't try and rattle off the
phone number.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
But moldmember Ohio dot com. That's easy enough.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yea, you can.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
You can send in the application right away to get
uh checked out.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
We'll call you, okay, and your prices are super fair.
I mean we were like, this is great, this is
we should have done this a long time ago. But
Boots will tell you because I'm so cheap.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
That's mendy that you open your dictionary from back in
the day and look at procrastination on money.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
That's true. I can't argue that that's okay. Mold mentor
ohio dot com check it out, folks.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Stay around for one more seconds gain questions for these guys.
Seven nine three nineteen fifty seven is of magic number?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Or six one four or eight one nine habits six
one nine eight eighty six. And then we're gonna have
a psychic coming up at three o'clock hour, three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
To five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
If you, guys, ever wanted to know about your future,
or if you could talk to someone in your family
or friends who have died, would you.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I still don't believe it. But she nailed me last.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Time, and you still don't believe it, even though she
write like a book.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I don't know. I don't know. I'm freaked out by it.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
My buddy says, it's it's talking to the devil.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
He's freaking out because you don't mean to do it.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I have asked for that too, I said, because people, Okay,
if you're very strong in your faith, you're not supposed
to at all seek advice from a medium or anything
about that.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Is it considered pseudoscience.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
But you I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I tell you we're going to ask her if she
knows a mold people that don't like you, that you
took out, but they're still lingering in her brain.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
We're all Mindia Boots on News Radio six n WTV
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Right
Well, boy, it's been raining a lot today. It started
all through the night, and when it rained this hard,
even though it's been so dry really for so many
weeks in a row here all across the Buckeye state.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
But it reminds you of.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Do you have to check your basement because when it
rained this hard, that can do a lot of damage
to that basement.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
You're something, but some some boways I've had to happen
malt that's the worst thing ever.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It was the worst thing. If you have carpet down
the basement and stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, even if they tear it up, it still gets
in the corner. You got in the corners.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You said we had it in the corners and mine went.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Up to the plot through the drywall.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
What did you wind up doing?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
We had I had luckily I had the insurance.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Time they came in as gutted my basement basically and
redid the whole thing. So I didn't think I had
a mold problem, but I probably did because you can't
see them old right and yours?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Did you get no more drywall?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I'm gonna let Zach Duffy with mold mentor this is
what you do this is your business, because you know
how common of a problem this is. I don't think
most people really do, really life though, how common?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Yeah, I mean I can probably find visible mold in
half of the homes that people invite me into if
I give it enough time.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
When you get called to a house that think they
have mold, you look at the people go you got
mold because you look sick.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Can you tell by the way they look.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
She looked at me and said, Omini, I know you've
got moldy.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, I mean she was green and kind of hunched
over and like she just tooked a pack of SIGs.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Some people are I think some people get sick from
worrying about mold.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Okay, And so if you if you bring me out.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
We can pull collect some air samples, get them off
to a laboratory for analysis, and then we can confirm
or rule out so you don't have to worry.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So let's get Randy on the line here, because it
was really Randy's idea.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I look at it and I don't really care.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Want to pay a bill.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
What if it's mold, we can live with it.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
But Randy's on the line with us right now, and Randy,
you were a lot more attentive to what you thought
was mold in the corners of her basement. And honestly,
it's been bothering you for a while, hasn't it.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
Yes, it had. I had a little to do list
and that was one of the things. And uh then
when I heard Zach talk about it on your show,
and then I started thinking every time like, I just
got to make a call. So that's what we did.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
We brought you into the house.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Your first thing you did was you went around every
corner and you wanted to inspect it. You can look
at and see what you think the problem is, right Zach,
that's right.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Well, the first thing I did was try and figure
out Randy's spelling of his last name, and then I
went through the house.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Quarter what exactly, And that's why I never took it quarter.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
What quarter cray. Wow, that's it tells you a lot
right there.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
I like the main but I'll know nobody will ever
stalk me for getting me mixed up with Dreer.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So so then what did you do, Zach?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You just walked through and I thought you handled everything
so well, so professional and what Randy and I appreciated
the most is you know, our dogs are our kids,
and you weren't like, can you put the dogs in
the backyard? Which I understand if people are like that.
You know they're coming to your house to do a service.
You preciate that, and yeah, we'll put the dogs in
the back But you didn't do that. You're like, oh,
(03:04):
your dogs are so clol I want to play with
your dogs.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Yeah, the dogs are following us around for sure, trying
to figure out and and it made me want to
consider training one of the dogs to sniff out mold
to help me out during inspections.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
That's that's an actual thing, there is.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It is a thing.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Yeah, yeah, multeniffing dogs. But we didn't need that at
your house.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
You you could see it right away.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Yeah, in the unfinished part of the basement. It hides.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Moltends to hide, and finished basements a lot easier behind
the drywall, usually downlow behind base boards.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So let me visualize the chemistry here, Randy, What did
your wall look like where had the mold?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Was it just the poor wall or do you guys.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Have brick do just block absorbed more than poured walls?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
For probably? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Okay, so then what did you do to treat it?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Because Randy took pictures before and then you sent us after.
And Randy, what did you think when you went down
the basement when you saw the after?
Speaker 7 (04:00):
I was really impressed because that's what I've been doing,
is keeping everything away from the two corners, which is
hard to do because you want to store stuff on
the unfinished side. And but it looked awful. You know,
it's kind of dim, grungy looking. And when we got back,
you know, because he was doing it, we had to
run from errands. He had gotten all the mold off
(04:22):
and then put a white cony on and it really
brightened up the basement, and I was it was more
than I expected. I expected him to get the mold
off and it looked okay, but he really got the
mold off and then it looked great, so almost like
when we moved in. So I appreciated that because I
wasn't sure how it was going to go. And plus
(04:43):
the air freshery had down there was you know, when
we came back into whole house in all great. It
really did.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And we with four dogs, with four dogs, our house
never smells great. We're like man, we ought to have
Zach Duffy come in every month just so it smells
good in here. But he was so impressing, That's why
I wanted him to to get us get on the
line with you.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Is it like a Kilts type thing you put down
or I know that's a generic statement, but what white
stuff did you put down?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
So we pick up stuff that's made designed for professional
use for restoration and not stuff that is available.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Like at home depots through distributor you can buy it online.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
But uh, you know, the the products we use are
the big difference is the money that they put into
independent third party you know, case studies and testing to
prove that it works.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Whereas if you're.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
At home depot picking something up like kills, I don't
think there's much independent study on that stuff.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
It's all marketing.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Brandy won't have mold back in those corners anymore.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Not if the Randy says that the down spouts were
underground drain pipes have been repaired and so if that's true,
then no.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So, Randy, were you feeling any illness or sickness or
whatever you'll say from that at all or did you?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Guys?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That's just from living.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Right, I just kept everything away from the corners in
that because I saw it. But I just you know,
when you get busy with life kind of just say
but actually is pretty easy. I called that, he come over,
gave me his quote. We thought it was fair. He
came over a second time, knocked it out, and uh,
that was it. So I didn't really infringe, U pull
on our normal day to day grind.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And that's true.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
So we were really appreciated it.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, it was so.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Much easier than we thought. And now we can breathe.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
There is mold airborne or how does it floats around
like dust?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Aerodynamic? Think paper airplanes or a little parachute. G I, Joe, men,
it's designed.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Are they bug type or they know they want to
get to you? Or is this coincidental that it gets
in your nostrils. I don't know how you get it.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
They're micro organisms and they have a defense mechanism. They
produce micro toxins, which are mold poisons to get rid
of us as people, they would they know that we
will get rid of.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
The mold if they don't get rid of us, So
it is battle.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
So they got purple hair where the humans are the
only predator to mold on planet Earth.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Really true story. They don't bother dogs or mice.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Dogs don't bother mold. Okay, so it's the only creditor
too that we take them out.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I know you're saying, Randy, thanks for calling.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I'm glad you did, and I know you would recommend
the mold mentor for sure. How can people get a
hold of you, Zach If they're like, we need to
have him in our basement because we need to get
this done, you.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Will get checked out for it, you know.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I Okay, go ahead, Yeah, moldmenttor Ohio dot com. Moldmenttor
Ohio dot com. I won't try and rattle off the
phone number.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
But moldmember Ohio dot com. That's easy enough.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yea, you can.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
You can send in the application right away to get
uh checked out.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
We'll call you, okay, and your prices are super fair.
I mean we were like, this is great, this is
we should have done this a long time ago. But
Boots will tell you because I'm so cheap.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
That's mendy that you open your dictionary from back in
the day and look at procrastination on money.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
That's true. I can't argue that that's okay. Mold mentor
ohio dot com check it out, folks.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Stay around for one more seconds gain questions for these guys.
Seven nine three nineteen fifty seven is of magic number?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Or six one four or eight one nine habits six
one nine eight eighty six. And then we're gonna have
a psychic coming up at three o'clock hour, three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
To five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
If you, guys, ever wanted to know about your future,
or if you could talk to someone in your family
or friends who have died, would you.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I still don't believe it. But she nailed me last.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Time, and you still don't believe it, even though she
write like a book.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I don't know. I don't know. I'm freaked out by it.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
My buddy says, it's it's talking to the devil.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
He's freaking out because you don't mean to do it.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I have asked for that too, I said, because people, Okay,
if you're very strong in your faith, you're not supposed
to at all seek advice from a medium or anything
about that.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Is it considered pseudoscience.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
But you I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I tell you we're going to ask her if she
knows a mold people that don't like you, that you
took out, but they're still lingering in her brain.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
We're all Mindia Boots on News Radio six n WTV
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Right
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