Mold Inspection in West Palm Beach, FL
An old house in Old Northwood or Flamingo Park
keeps its leaks well hidden.
Plaster walls, flat roofs behind parapets and a century of additions give water plenty of places to hide. Our free inspection reads the walls, floors and ceilings with a moisture meter, checks the attic and puts what we find in writing.
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Is it worth getting a mold inspection?
Yes, when a room smells musty, a stain keeps coming back or the house has taken on water. In West Palm Beach it also pays after a roof repair or a big storm, since leaks from above can run for weeks before they show. Ours is free for owners and ends with written findings you keep.
Home inspection, moisture survey or mold assessment?
Three different visits get called a mold inspection. Only the one Florida licenses as a mold assessment takes samples.
| Visit | What it checks | Who does it | Samples? | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home inspection | A limited visual look at the readily accessible parts of the house, from the roof covering to the plumbing. Mold makes the report only where the inspector can see it. | A licensed home inspector | No | A written opinion on the condition of the house, usually ordered before a sale |
| Our free moisture survey | The whole house and lot: moisture readings on every wall, floor and ceiling, the attic, a smell check and the places mold usually starts | Bullfrog, under Florida mold remediator license MRSR5565 | No | Written findings you keep and a plan to stop the water, free for owners |
| Mold assessment | Physical sampling plus the building history and inspection, to work out where mold came from, what it is and how far it has spread | A licensed mold assessor, who may not remediate a house they assessed within 12 months | Yes, sent to a lab | Lab results and an evaluation, billed separately. An assessor also gives a finished remediation job its independent clearance |
Sources: Florida Statutes 468.8311 (home inspection), 468.8411 (mold assessment) and 468.8419 (the 12-month rule). Our guide to what the free inspection includes covers the survey in more detail.
Mold Inspection in West Palm Beach
What we check in West Palm Beach homes
Seams Between Old and New
A house built in the 1920s in El Cid or Grandview Heights has often been renovated more than once. We check the seams between old and new work, such as the joint where an addition meets the original slab and wall. Water finds those seams before anywhere else.
Flat Roofs Behind Parapets
Flamingo Park's state historical marker lists Mission, Mediterranean Revival and Frame Vernacular houses built from 1921 into the mid-1930s. Some Mission and Mediterranean houses have a flat roof behind a parapet wall. A failed seal where that roof meets the parapet or at the scuppers that drain it sends water into the wall below. We read the walls and ceilings under the roof edge for it.
Tide Lines Out West
In Wellington and The Acreage, storm water can stand for days while the canals catch up, as our West Palm Beach page explains. There we look for tide lines on the stucco, rusted tack strip and swollen baseboards.
Our Process
What happens at a West Palm Beach mold inspection
- 1
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 a 1920s house we also look up from the ground at the parapets, the scuppers and the flashing.
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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.
Old plaster gets extra readings, because it hides water well.
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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.
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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