Mold Inspection Services Fort Lauderdale, FL

A flat $325 for a condo or apartment up to 1,000 square feet, $425 for a home up to 2,000, $525 up to 3,500, and quoted above that. The accredited laboratory fee is inside those numbers rather than added afterwards, and so are the moisture survey and the thermal imaging. The price is agreed on the phone before anyone drives out and it does not move with the results. Extra air samples are $85 each including analysis, and surface samples the same, but they are only added where the survey shows a genuinely separate zone.

No, and we could not be even if we wanted to. Section 468.8419 of the Florida Statutes bars a licensed mold assessor from performing or offering remediation on a structure they assessed within the previous twelve months, and bars a remediator from assessing a building they remediated in the same window. We hold no remediation licence at all, so the restriction is permanent rather than a twelve-month wait. The report names a scope of work. Which company carries it out is your decision and we take no payment from whoever it is.

You can, and it is worth understanding what a free visit is. It is a visual walk: no air or surface sampling, no laboratory analysis and no outdoor control, because all three cost money that has to come from somewhere. If there is visible growth and what you actually want is a quote to remove it, a free visual is a reasonable way to get one and we would not talk you out of it. If you want to know whether there is a problem you cannot see, or you need a document a landlord, an insurer or a buyer will act on, the sampling is the part that does that, and sampling is the part a price of nothing cannot include.

Not always, and we will say so on the phone. If you can see growth under about ten square feet on a hard surface and you have already found and stopped the water, you do not need a laboratory to confirm what you are looking at. Book an inspection when the smell has no visible source, when a stain keeps returning, when the house feels damp with the air conditioning running, when you need a document somebody else has to act on, or after a flood or a burst line where the building was wet for more than a day or two.

There is no federal standard and no Florida standard setting a numerical limit for indoor mold, and anybody quoting you one as though it were law is quoting their own policy. What a laboratory report actually does is compare the indoor spore counts against an outdoor control taken the same hour at the same property. Indoor air that is broadly similar to outdoor air in both count and species mix is normal. Indoor air carrying species the outdoor sample barely shows, or counts several times higher, indicates an indoor source. That comparison is the finding, and it is why an inspection without a control sample cannot deliver one.

Sometimes, and it usually turns on whether the water event was sudden and accidental. Florida policies carry mold under a separate capped coverage rather than the main dwelling limit: Citizens Property Insurance, the state-backed carrier, sets its Limited Fungi, Wet or Dry Rot, or Bacteria limit at $10,000 on the HO-3 form and most carriers are in the same territory. A burst supply line or storm damage generally opens that coverage. A slow leak or months of high humidity is generally declined as neither sudden nor accidental. Which of those your building is dealing with is a question of evidence, and it is easier to establish before anything is dried out than after.

The wet season, which runs May to October and carries 47.27 of the 66.52 inches this city averages in a year. That is 71% of the rain in half the year, arriving as afternoon storms on days when the dew point sits in the low seventies. The reason it matters indoors is not the rain itself but the air behind it: outdoor air at that dew point condenses on any surface the air conditioning has chilled below it, so the season that puts water on the outside of the building is also the season that puts it inside the walls.

The visit is around ninety minutes for a condo and two to three hours for a house, most of which is the moisture survey rather than the sampling. Laboratory analysis takes two working days and we send the report the day it lands, with the laboratory document attached whole in the laboratory name. Most inspections are booked within two working days of the call, and a property with standing water or one that has been shut up wet gets pulled forward wherever the diary allows.

Yes, all 28 incorporated towns in Broward County, each with its own page. That is not a courtesy: the county spans a 45-year range of building ages, from a 1961 median in West Park to 2006 in Parkland, and the generation of the building decides the mechanism. A 1970s single-storey slab house with a retrofitted duct system and a 2006 house built to the current code with a tight envelope get damp for opposite reasons. The published prices are the same at every address and nothing is added for the drive.

No. Nothing we do is invasive: no containment, no demolition, no chemicals. We ask that windows and external doors stay shut for about an hour before we arrive and while we sample, because opening them pulls outdoor air in and makes the indoor samples read like the control. The air conditioning should be running as it normally does, since a system that has been switched off specially for the visit tells us about a building nobody is living in.