Central Florida spends most of the year at a humidity level mold is perfectly happy with, so the question here is rarely whether spores are present — they are, everywhere, indoors and out. The question is what is feeding them. Mold is a symptom of a moisture problem, and remediation that does not find and fix the moisture is a service you will be buying again next year. We look for the source first, contain the area, remove what is contaminated, and dry the space to a level that will not support regrowth.
- Find and stop the moisture source before any remediation starts
- Containment and negative air so spores do not spread through the rest of the building
- Removal of contaminated porous materials — drywall, insulation, carpet pad
- HEPA filtration and detailed cleaning of what stays
- Drying to a verified standard, with the readings written down
- Rebuild of everything removed, by our own crews
The Air Conditioner Is Usually Involved
In this climate the AC is the building’s dehumidifier, and a surprising share of mold calls trace back to it. An oversized unit satisfies the thermostat quickly, shuts off, and never runs long enough to strip moisture out of the air — the house is cold and clammy at the same time. A blocked condensate line backs water up into the pan and then into whatever is under the air handler, usually a closet nobody opens.
We are restoration contractors, not HVAC contractors, so we do not sell you a new system. What we will do is tell you plainly when the pattern of growth points at the air handler, because remediating around a system that is still making the humidity is money spent on a symptom.
Containment, and Why the Plastic Matters
Disturbing mold without containment moves it. Cutting out a contaminated wall in an open room puts spores into the air handler and distributes them evenly through a house that previously had a problem in one closet. So the work area gets sealed, put under negative pressure so air flows in rather than out, and filtered through HEPA before it is exhausted.
Inside that containment the porous materials that are contaminated come out. Non-porous surfaces are cleaned rather than replaced. Then everything is HEPA vacuumed and wiped, and the space is dried before anything is closed back up — because sealing new drywall over a wet cavity is how a remediation fails three months later.
What We Will Not Tell You
We will not tell you what a particular species of mold will do to your health. That is a question for a physician, and anyone in this trade who answers it confidently is selling something. We also do not perform the clearance testing on our own work in situations that call for independent verification — an assessor who does not have a financial interest in the result is worth more to you than one who does.
What we will tell you is exactly where the moisture is coming from, what has to be removed and why, what can be cleaned and kept, and what the readings say when we are finished. Florida licenses mold remediators, and the scope we write is the scope we do.
