When you hire a mold remediation company, always ask if they will guarantee that their work will pass a mold clearance test by a qualified third-party mold inspector or industrial hygienist.
Just this week I put bids for mold remediation work on three properties that have already had mold remediation work performed but by companies that do not guarantee that the property will pass a mold clearance test when the work is complete.
What does this mean? It means a lot of wasted money and time as the mold will now have to be remediated properly. Doing a poor job on the initial remediation can actually make the situation worse by spreading mold spores throughout the entire house instead of containing it to one room.
This is the case for two of the properties I recently encountered in Oakland, CA, and Berkeley, CA. Both initially had mold in just one room but due to poor work practices, the mold spores were not contained during remediation and released into the home environment and into the HVAC system. What was basically just a one-room remediation effort is now a whole house effort at about triple the cost of what it would have been initially if done properly.
You get what you pay for. If you don't get a guarantee that the remediation work will pass a clearance test then you may wind up doing the remediation effort all over again with a greater scope of work and a much bigger cost!
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