Testing & Assessment
Mold Inspection & Testing in Gary, IN
An assessment establishes whether mold is present, where it is growing, and how far it extends — before anyone quotes removal. A mold inspection locates moisture and growth that a room-level look would miss, reading wall cavities, subfloor, and the areas behind finished surfaces. The result is a scope: what is affected, what has to come out, and what is driving the moisture.
Most people reach this page after noticing something rather than after something broke: a smell that returns, a stain that spreads, a room that feels damp. An inspection answers what is actually there and where the moisture comes from, which is the information every later decision depends on. Several states, Texas among them, keep assessment and remediation as separate licensed roles specifically so the party identifying the problem is not the party selling the fix. Nothing here is medical advice — if you have health questions, those are for a clinician.
Every pro in our network is licensed and insured in Indiana.
Frequently asked questions
The lot is not on a river. Why does water stand in the yard after a June rain?
Because it is a swale. This shoreline is a series of old beach ridges with wet troughs between them, and many streets were laid across that pattern rather than along it. June rain fills the trough. Distance from the Grand Calumet does not flatten a swale.
A seiche did not overtop the beach. Can it still load a swale crawl in June?
It can, through the old marsh. Dune-and-swale ground takes a basin rise into the troughs between ridges even when the pavement stays dry. That is a Lake Michigan table in a swale, not a Grand Calumet overbank, and slag fill in those troughs holds the rise after the seiche has passed.
Is mill slag under a house a different problem from sand?
It is. Slag and marsh fill hold water and settle; dune sand drains and then lets the lake in from below. One crawl stays wet because the fill is a sponge. The other wets when the basin rises. Knowing which ground the 1957 house sits on decides the scope.