Thursday, March 11, 2010

Certified Mold Remediation

The other day, while on the highway, I took notice of a company’s work van. On the outside were listed the company’s services, including “Certified Mold Remediation”. To which I thought…………..What? Ok, it’s probably mold removal, I thought, but “certified mold remediation”? Come on. It’s true that the American version of the English language has undergone some major reconstruction in the last few years (few meaning anywhere from three to fifty, take your pick). In a lot of cases, this has been helpful. When a person is described as Native American, rather than Indian, I find this helpful. (Let’s leave the term Indian to persons from India, makes more sense to me). But back to “certified mold remediation”. I couldn’t help but break it down – won’t you walk with me through it? Certified. Easy enough, certified means some sort of paid training led to a piece of paper with the word “certified” on it and a signature (and maybe even an embossed seal). The consumer of the certified service can be assured the service will be performed to a high standard (or something like that). Certified is good. Mold. Unfortunately, we all know what mold is – fuzzy, green or blue or white or black, smelly growth on unclean surfaces (although admittedly, from a distance can be sort of pretty). Mold is, to be both concise and precise, bad. Remediation. This is a word that requires more work. It begins with a prefix, re-, which means again. Mediation is a word that means a session devoted to mediating (the present participle of to mediate) between two parties has occurred, and mediate means to find the agreeable middle between two or more parties (definitions provide by Jen’s Dictionary, which could someday be certified, stay tuned). So, remediation is the repeat of a session to find middle ground between two or more parties. All together now – Certified Mold Remediation is a repeated, high quality session of finding middle ground between mold and …. something or someone else. What kind of facilitator holds these sessions? How does the session go? In my mind, I hear something ridiculous, along the lines of, “Dave, Mold feels it has a right to a warm, nurturing environment where it has the freedom to grow. And Mold, I think it’s important to understand Dave’s sensitivities and his need for smooth, clean surfaces.” At this point, the mold rises out its chair, furious, and I wonder, where is my audio book and how did my brain get here? In case you’re wondering, here’s a definition I found on wikipedia definition : Mold remediation is the process of removal and/or cleanup of mold from an indoor environment. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold_remediation)
Just like I thought. Go figure.

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