Mold inspections and testing in Naples, Mold testing and inspections for Bonita Springs, Cape Coral and Fort Myers. Many homeowners, buyers and Realtors make the mistake of hiring a home inspector to perform their Mold Inspection. Mold Inspections should be performed by an American Indoor Air Quality certified Residential mold inspector (CRMI) or an certified indoor environmentalist (CIE). Few home inspectors in Florida are certified by the AmIAQ, simply because it requires 2 years experience to apply for certification. Many home inspectors take a one day class and are "certified".
Consumers should consider the mold inspectors qualifications. Inspection agreements protect the inspector.
If a home is "labeled" as having a mold problem when it does not. It is not the home inspectors problem.
In a Real Estate deal the home inspector misses a serious mold problem, again it is not the home inspectors problem.
Home Inspectors usually just take air samples for mold, (often called air quality tests) then let a lab hundreds of miles away decide if the home has "elevated Mold", Yes or No. Air samples can help decide the seriousness of a mold situation, but should not solely be used to decide if a home has a mold "problem".
Air sample mold counts can be influenced by many things, doors and windows open during test, vacuuming prior to indoor sample collection, lawn mowing prior to collection of outside sample. the list goes on and on. You inspector should decide if your home has a mold problem not a lab tech who has never seen the home.Make a free website at Freewebs.com