Texas Mold Testing And Indoor Air Quality Services

Our Office specializes in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas Mold Testing and Indoor Air Quality Consulting in The Dallas Fort Worth, and Environmental Property Assessments. In business since 1978, we are experts in mold, air quality, water damage claims, with the ability to perform mold inspections, mold surveys, water and flood damage inspections, air testing, toxic mold evaluations, expert witness and litigation support. All evaluations and surveys include recommendations for corrective actions on identified problems and remediation plans.

Our service area includes Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, all of Texas (TX), Oklahoma (OK), Arkansas (AR), Mississippi (MS) and Washington DC (WashDC). We also have regional offices in NJ (New York City), Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, and Los Angeles and can provide services through most of the United States (go to www.atlenv.com). We are Texas Licensed Mold Assessment Consultants with emphasis on services in commercial buildings, manufacturing, offices/administration, multiple family housing, commercial construction projects.

 

 

Indoor Air Quality Consulting

Indoor Air Quality may involve many other factors than just mold. Sick Building Syndrome and Building Related Disease may involve chemicals, dust, dirt, insects, asbestos, fiberglass, sewer odors, dead animals, vermin, bird droppings, noise, ergonomics, outside air pollution, ventilation, carbon monoxide, vehicle exhaust, ozone and smog.

Texas legislation requires licensing of anyone who performs mold sampling, mold assessment or mold consulting. Our staff includes Licensed Texas Mold Consultants who can perform air tests for molds, surface sampling to identify type and quantity of molds, inspect water damaged areas due to floods/sewer back-up/roof leaks/broken pipes. These services include insurance claims for water damage and mold.

All laboratory analysis if performed by laboratories are accredited by the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA).

Most Sophisicated Mold Testing Equipment

We maintain equipment for detailed evaluation of environments where there are mold and air quality complaints including Infrared Thermal Imaging Cameras, Particle Counters, Viable Microbial Samplers, Air-O-Cell Microbial Samplers, Moisture Meters, Boroscopes for viewing inside walls, Indoor Air Qualtiy Monitors for temperature, relative humidity, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and volatile organic compounds (VOC’s).

Molds are common to both indoors and outdoors. In fact, molds grow best in warm, damp and humid conditions, where there is a source of food such as leaf matter, dirt/soil, decomposed wood including paper, or other organic material—both plant and animal.

Molds can survive in a dormant state in very harsh conditions and for long periods of time because they produce spores that may be dormant in extreme heat or cold, dry conditions, very acid or alkaline environments and then multiply when conditions become more favorable.

Molds cause a variety of symptoms in humans. The most common symptoms are upper respiratory symptoms, cough, asthma reactions in people with asthma and hypersensitivity pneumonitis in persons susceptible to respiratory problems. Far less common are other illnesses, such as chronic fatigue, blood disorders, immune system reactions and other system illnesses that almost always occur in individuals with severely compromised immune systems (i.e., cancer patients, organ transplant recipients, etc.), and even these situations are controversial.

It is also important to note that human susceptibility varies greatly from person to person. While one person may have a strong reaction to a particular mold, scores of others in the same environment experience no reaction at all.

Remember: Allergies, asthma, and many other illnesses may be caused by other agents such as pollen, grass, trees, chemicals, foods, medicines, animals, insects and genetics.

Texas Law Regarding Mold