Testing & Assessment
Mold Inspection & Testing in Farmington Hills, MI
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 Michigan.
Frequently asked questions
The Rouge is a park. Why is a backyard swale still a basement problem?
The park is the named river. The swale is the unmarked tributary the plat left in the yards. May rain plus leftover melt fills that swale, and a 1978 basement is a hole in its bank. Looking at the named river misses the water that never gets that far.
Half the basement sits on peat. Does that matter decades later?
It still settles differently than the till half, so the wall opens along that line and tile crushes on the peat side. Water then uses the opening. A crack that keeps returning on the same diagonal is the contact reporting, not a random pour line.
Novi shares this gauge. What is different on this moraine?
The peat pockets and the Upper Rouge headwaters. Same May inches, different ground. This suburb was cut through oaks over mixed till and organic soils; a basement here is as likely to be in a pocket as on a rise. The gauge cannot see that, which is why the tail has to.