Accurate Mold Testing: Critical for Right Action

Mold Testing Services by Hero Mold Removal uses Certificated Mold Testers also Trained in Building Science

Hero Mold Removal performs Mold Testing in homes, businesses, clinics, restaurants and other buildings where mold is suspected. Understandably, it is critical to have fast accurate mold testing performed for clients who are dealing with serious concerns, perhaps, facing a delayed closing on a home or business because inspectors found sign of mold growth.  Mold Testing services are affordably offered by Hero Mold Removal throughout the city of Williamsburg, VA.  We promise accuracy with affordability.

Many reasons exist that make it necessary to hire a professional mold tester, such as:

• Legal reasons, make it necessary to demonstrate in a court of law what species and possible level of infestation that Mold may have in your home or business.
• Renters Suspecting Mold in their Building is responsible for their illness.
• Doctors need to know the species of mold to devise a Medical treatment plan.
• Post Mold Remediation Testing to check its success.
• Real Estate Sale is contingent upon Mold Testing.
• To set your mind at rest about any toxic mold dangers your home environment may hold.

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The reasons for necessary mold testing determines what type of tests will be required. For example, the test for species of mold needs a clean catch psychical sample sent to a certified lab. 

Air Quality Testing: Several Samples

Tape Sample Testing Mold Species

Mold Swab Test

Average Cost of Mold Testing in Williamsburg, VA

The most important influencer of costs for mold testing is the area the tester has to cover: the larger the area the higher the costs.

•  If it is a small area, for example a 10 x 10 mold remediation costs can be in the low hundreds.
• Larger Areas depend on how large an area, how difficult access is for cleaning and how much mold is present.
• If the attic and air ducts are also mold involved, costs will increase.
• A previously flooded home with active mold colonies throughout will range in the low thousands depending on the size of the home. Serious decay underway in these homes is generally the norm.
• Consult your Home Insurance Carrier should the discovered moisture problem originate from a sudden leak because it's likely covered. However, if the damage is due to poor maintenance (the roof should have been fixed or replaced) they will most likely decline coverage. Also, construction mistakes, standing or ground surface water (unless you purchased separate flood insurance) are also exempt.

Other factors that drive up costs are court ordered tests for a contested Real Estate Sale or medical personal requests that requires information about the mold species- usually necessary to devise a treatment plan for very sick people in the hospital.  Several mold samples may be needed to develop the necessary information.

Hero Mold Removal will take samples and then send them to an unaffiliated lab for analysis.  Mold level testing and then its remediation done by the same company is a conflict of interest, consequently, Hero Mold Removal will take samples in front of clients, seal them in tamper proof packaging in client’s presence and then ship them to a third-party Mold Assessment Laboratory. 

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The Truth about DIY Mold Test Kits

  Judicious and the most Accurate Testing is Done by Professionals

A Mold Petri-dish test kit is a small round plate with a nutrient gel on the bottom that offers a food and water supply for any mold spore that may settle on the plate while floating on the breezes within a home. They are sold at home stores and by mail order with the suggestion that users mail any petri-dish that developed mold to their lab for further testing for an additional charge. These DIY test kits have several concerns:

• DIY Mold Testing kits are unlikely to be accurate when used by an inexperience individual because of the many ways for cross contamination causing false negative and false positives. Mold testing that is accurate needs a sampling plan design to gather multiple samples taken from specified locations in combination with a visual inspection by someone who understands building sciences, such as construction faults and possible sources of moisture infiltration.
  
• The DIY mold test kits could have been in storage for a very long period of time and without expiration dates buyers wouldn't know whether the nutrient on the bottom was still good.   
  
• Mold Species is impossible to read from a Petri-dish it can't even be guessed at because many species are the same color. The only sure way to determine Species is for a specialist to look at a sample under a microscope.
• Inaccurate Laboratory testing because of insufficient technical capabilities is a big problem with some labs. The Lab needs to be an accredited lab with atmosphere controls in place or the mold samples might be compromised by mold spores on surfaces or floating through the atmosphere in their laboratory.

Infrared Camera Testing for Moisture Leaks

Microscope Used to Identify Mold Species

Microscopic Mold Stained Blue

 Mold Testing: Often Unnecessary with Visible Mold 

Hold Mold Removal Keeps Investigation Costs Down By Preforming Only Necessary Tests

When Mold is visible, expensive mold testing can oftentimes be avoided because mold remediation follows the same steps independent of Mold Species (find moisture feeding mold, put a containment curtain up, set up a negative air flow to keep mold spores within and lastly, cleanup the mold).  All mold infestations should be removed regardless of species just to improve the health of people living, shopping or working inside the building.  In addition, the mold colonies are busy dissolving whatever building material they've landed on. It's better for your family's health and to protect the possibly large property investment you carry to successfully remove the mold growth.

Hero Mold Removal will honestly inform potential clients what tests, if any, are recommended without wasting any of your hard-earned funds on useless information. Contact Hero Mold Removal, explain your situation and we'll freely provide expert advice.

 If you can Smell Mold, We'll Find it 

When you Smell a Musty Odor, Contact Hero Mold Removal and We'll Send a Top-Quality Mold Inspector that will make a Complete Inspection of your Property

When mold is clearly somewhere in the building because its characteristic odor permeates yet it lays hidden, then mold testing may be required to find the hidden menace. Highly experienced Mold Inspectors will use sensitive scanners for moisture detection and temperature shifts to hopefully find its location. In rare cases, when the mold growth still can’t be found air samples will be taken to investigate further and find a solution. 

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 Experienced in All Types of Mold Testing

Hero Mold Removal contractor in Williamsburg, VA is a professional and budget conscious team eager to gain your trust by sending licensed certificated technicians to investigate mold colonization within your home or business.  If mold is found, we will present a written and clearly stated estimate of mold remediation costs.  Connect with Hero Mold Removal of Williamsburg, VA today for fast expert help with any mold or moisture problem.

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