Avoid Mold Scams

The modern indoors in buildings and houses can offer perfect condition for molds to proliferate their colonies. No different is city of Jacksonville, mold inspection services are as ubiquitous as the molds themselves. Molds can be present in every house or building of Jacksonville, mold test is thus important for owners to confirm the presence of mold spores under their roofs. There by preventing any health hazard that can arise due to presence of molds.

Mold inspection is a very specialized work. It requires collecting samples of various surfaces, water, air and examining those samples in lab to detect the presence of molds. There are many service providers who are doing moldtesting;Jacksonville itself has high demand of such service provider who specializes in these services.

But can all service providers be trusted? There are many who claim to be expert in mold inspection. Jacksonville is full with such boasters.  Not all service providers can be trusted in Jacksonville. Mold testing is a specialized job that requires detailed understandings of protocols and procedure.  And there might be some vested interest for not doing proper inspections and giving a false report.  Not everybody who claims is doing proper mold test. Jacksonville is full of such bogus service providers, who are just working for their vested interest.

What to keep in mind when hiring a mold inspector

It’s not peaceful to share the house with molds. Large concentration of molds can cause various health related complication for your employees or family members.  It’s important to understand that mold can be anywhere. And there are good chances that your property also has mold problem, even though you can’t notice. One should consider hiring experts to do thorough inspection even if there is slightest hint of presence of mold spores. But one should keep below points in mind when hiring any service provider.

  • Be more careful when they say inspection is free
    Companies who claim to do free inspections,generally also do remediation. They can give you false reports, recommending need of remediation even if there is no such requirement in your case. They make up for free inspection (bogus anyway) by charging you for much expensive remediation process.
  • Be careful of companies with tie-ups with remediation
    One need to be extra careful of inspection companies with links to remediation companies. They can give you bogus report, recommending expensive remediation. They will get their rewards for this from the remediation company.