Stop Wondering. Get a Number.
Somebody told you it's just a musty basement. Somebody told you that stain is old. Somebody told you not to worry about it. We take air samples, send them to an accredited laboratory, and give you spore counts for each room measured against an outdoor control — so the question stops being a matter of opinion.
Starting at $285
You Can Smell It. You Just Can't Prove It.
Mold grows where water has been, and water goes where nobody's looking — behind finished basement walls, under a bathroom floor, above a ceiling that leaked once in 2019.
By the time you can see it, it's been there a while. Often you never see it at all. What you get instead is a smell, a symptom, a feeling that something in the house is off — and no way to put that in front of a seller, a landlord, or a contractor.
'It's probably nothing' is not an answer. It's just the absence of one.
Mold spores exist everywhere, indoors and out. A spore count on its own is a meaningless number. What matters is how the air inside the house compares to the air outside it at that moment. So every mold test we perform starts with an outdoor control sample. Then we sample the rooms in question. The laboratory compares them and returns a determination for each room: normal, or problem. Analysis is performed by an accredited laboratory under chain of custody. We collect and interpret. They analyze.
How It Works
Tell Us What You're Seeing
A smell, a stain, a past leak, a symptom that gets worse at home — whatever prompted the call helps us decide where to sample.
We Collect the Samples
An outdoor control plus air samples from the areas of concern, taken under laboratory protocol.
You Get the Lab Results
A certificate of analysis showing every fungal type identified, spore counts per cubic meter, percentage of total, and a clear determination for each location.
What's Actually in Your Report
A Determination for Every Room
Each location is returned as NORMAL or PROBLEM based on comparison to the outdoor control. No interpretation required.
Full Spore Counts
Raw count, spores per cubic meter, and percentage of total for every fungal type found, in every location.
Indoor Problem Fungi Flagged
Water-indicating and indoor problem fungi are identified separately and highlighted.
A Complete Mold Glossary
Every organism identified is explained: where it lives, whether it grows indoors, and its allergy, disease, and toxin potential.
Laboratory Certification
A signed certificate of analysis from an accredited lab, under documented chain of custody. It holds up in a negotiation.
What the Numbers Can Look Like
On a recent South Jersey inspection, the outdoor control came back at roughly 5,600 spores per cubic meter — a completely normal outdoor reading.
The basement came back at 330,000, with a single indoor problem fungus accounting for 99% of it.
Nobody had to argue about whether that basement had a problem. The report settled it in one line.
Testing Tells You There's a Problem. It Doesn't Fix It.
Air sampling identifies what's in the air and whether it's abnormal. It does not locate the source inside a wall, and it does not repair anything.
Mold is always a moisture problem first. Whatever is growing is growing because water is getting somewhere it shouldn't, and until that's corrected, remediation is temporary.
That's why mold testing pairs with a home inspection rather than replacing one. The inspection looks for where the water is coming from. The test tells you what the air currently holds.
What This Testing Is Not
Stated plainly:
- Not clearance or post-remediation verification. If you need clearance testing after a remediation project, that's a separate service performed by an independent environmental professional, and we don't provide it.
- Not a medical opinion. We report what's in the air. What that means for a specific person's health is a question for their physician.
- Not a source location. Air sampling doesn't identify what's behind a specific wall. Invasive investigation is a different scope.
- Not measured against a legal standard. No EPA or federal standards exist for airborne mold concentrations. Interpretation is based on comparison to the outdoor control and established laboratory practice.
The Longer It Grows, the More It Costs
Mold doesn't stabilize. It follows the moisture, and the moisture keeps arriving.
A small area of growth behind a basement wall becomes drywall replacement, then framing, then insulation, then a remediation contract with containment and air scrubbers. Meanwhile the leak that started it is still leaking.
And in a transaction, an unexamined musty smell is a question mark you carry into closing. After closing, it's a project you own.
What You'll Walk Away With
Laboratory documentation of what's in the air, room by room, measured against the outdoor baseline. A clear determination instead of a debate. And enough information to decide whether you're looking at normal background levels or something that needs to be dealt with before you sign.
Frequently Asked Questions
Get an Answer Instead of an Opinion
Starting at $285. Pricing is subject to change based on the number of samples, property conditions, access, location, and other applicable factors.
Vivid Home Inspections proudly serves homebuyers and homeowners throughout South Jersey, including Camden, Burlington, and Gloucester Counties, as well as Eastern Pennsylvania.
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