Mold Inspection in Melbourne, FL
Your first Brevard wet season
shows you where the house leaks.
If a closet smells musty or a baseboard never quite dries, our free inspection walks the whole house. We read the moisture inside walls that look fine and tell you in writing where the water is and whether mold has followed it.
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What does a free mold inspection in Melbourne include?
A free mold inspection in Melbourne includes a walk of the whole property, moisture-meter readings on walls, floors and ceilings, a check for musty odors and written findings with a plan to stop the water. It does not include air samples or lab results, which need a licensed mold assessor.
Mold Inspection in Melbourne
What we look for in Melbourne homes
A lot of Melbourne homeowners moved here for work on the Space Coast and bought their first Florida house along the way. A block home on a slab keeps its water problems out of sight for a long time, so the first wet season in a new house is often when the smell turns up. These are the places we check first.
Terrazzo Under the Carpet
Many Melbourne homes built in the 1950s and 1960s still have their original terrazzo floors under carpet or tile laid decades later. Ground moisture comes up through an old slab. Carpet traps it along the tack strip at the wall, so when the readings point there, we lift a corner and look.
Nor'easters on the Beachside
From October into the spring, nor'easters drive rain sideways into the east walls of homes in Satellite Beach, Indialantic and Melbourne Beach, long after hurricane season has ended. Water that gets past a window frame or a stucco crack runs down inside the block and turns up as a stain at the baseboard or a smell in the closet on that wall.
What the Home Inspection Missed
A home inspection before closing is a visual check of the house on one day, often in the dry season. It rarely includes a room-by-room moisture map. If you bought in Brevard in the last few years, your first full wet season is the time to find out what the walls are holding.
Our Process
What happens at a Melbourne mold inspection
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Outside First
We start outside and check the grade against the house, the gutters, the downspouts and the slab edge. Water travels, so the stain you called about can sit some distance from where the water gets in.
On the beachside we also check the east-facing walls that take the weather.
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Readings in Every Room
Inside, we put a moisture meter on the walls, floors and ceilings of every room, including the ones that look dry. A high reading behind a dry-looking wall means water is sitting inside it.
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Where Mold Starts
We check the places mold usually starts in a Florida house: the air handler closet, closets on outside walls, bathrooms and the attic. If the house smells musty, we follow the smell to the room where it is strongest.
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Written Findings
You keep our written findings and a plan to stop the water whether you hire us or not. We take no air or lab samples, because Florida law makes sampling part of a mold assessment by a licensed assessor.
Where mold is already visible, the EPA notes that sampling is usually unnecessary. Our guide to what a free mold inspection includes covers the difference in full.
Our mold work runs under Florida mold remediator license MRSR5565. Our foundation waterproofing carries a lifetime warranty against water coming through the section we treat.
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