Mold remediation for Broward and Palm Beach County homes
Run an air conditioner year-round in South Florida and the coil stays wet. Mold takes hold at the equipment first, and then the duct system carries it to every room in the house. We start where it starts.
- Licensed
- Florida mold remediator
- Verified
- Independent clearance testing
- Standard
- IICRC S520 source removal
Air handler, evaporator coil and drain pan — the wettest assembly in a South Florida house.
Down here, mold travels through the ductwork
Most people picture mold as something on a wall, spreading outward from a leak. That does happen. But the more common South Florida version is invisible from the room: growth starts at the wettest surface in the house — the evaporator coil — and the blower distributes it under positive pressure to every supply register in the building.
That is why the same house can have a musty smell in four rooms and no visible growth anywhere. It is also why cleaning the visible spot fixes nothing, and why a company that treats one bedroom will be back in your house in six weeks.
Trace the route below and the sequence explains itself: the equipment is wet first, the plenum is downstream of the equipment, and every room is downstream of the plenum.
- Return plenum If the closet, platform, or chase used as a return is unsealed, the system pulls hot, humid, unconditioned air out of a garage or attic on every cycle.
- Evaporator coil Held below the dew point by design, so it is wet whenever the system runs. Organic dust that gets past the filter packs into the fins and stays soaked.
- Drain pan & condensate trap A clogged line or a dry trap backs water into the pan. Standing water in a dark cabinet at 75°F is the easiest growth in the building — and the failure that floods ceilings.
- Supply plenum In most pre-2000 Florida homes this is fiberglass duct board. Porous, fibrous, and impossible to clean once colonized. It gets replaced, not treated.
- Register boot Cold metal meeting a 130°F attic through failed insulation. It sweats, and the drywall ring around the vent is what the homeowner photographs.
- 40–45°FEvaporator coil surface temperature — below the dew point of indoor air in South Florida for most of the calendar year.
- Under 60%The line that matters for indoor humidity — the EPA puts the ideal band at 30 to 50%. We aim for 45 to 55% in occupied South Florida homes, because holding lower than that here means running the equipment almost continuously.
- 24–48 hrsHow long a wet organic surface has before growth begins at our ambient temperatures.
What we do, and what we will tell you not to buy
Six services. The first one is where most South Florida mold problems actually live, which is why it is the one we built the company around.
Four things we do differently
- We assess the whole air path before quotingReturn, coil, pan, blower, plenum, trunk, branches, boots. A scope written from a visual inspection of one stained ceiling is a guess, and the revision comes later at your expense.
- We remove material instead of spraying itAntimicrobials work on non-porous surfaces you can reach. They do not restore colonized fiberglass. If we tell you the plenum has to come out, we will show you why in the cabinet.
- We do not grade our own workFlorida licenses assessors and remediators separately, and a company that assessed a property is barred from remediating it — the specific rule runs twelve months. Your clearance test comes from an independent assessor. That is what makes the passing result mean anything.
- We fix the condition, not just the growthAn unsealed return, a short-cycling oversized system, a bath fan discharging into an attic. Remediation that skips the cause is a subscription, and we would rather not sell you one.
Broward and Palm Beach County, end to end
Housing stock changes every few miles down here, and so do the failure modes. Pick your city for what we actually find there.
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How fast can you get out here?
It depends on the week and where you are in the two counties, so the honest answer is that we will give you a real date on the call rather than a booking we then slip. Tell us if there is active water — that changes where you sit in the schedule, because a wet building has a clock on it and a contained patch of growth does not.
What does an inspection cost?
Ask on the call and we will tell you before anyone drives out — it depends on the property and on what you are describing, and a number you get afterwards is worth a lot less than one you get first. What we cannot sell you at any price is a licensed mold assessment with sampling: that is a separate license, a separate company, and an independent document.
Do you handle the repairs after the mold work?
We remove, clean, and dry. Reconstruction — drywall, texture, paint, flooring, and any plenum fabrication — is scoped separately and we are clear about which line items are which so you can compare bids honestly.
Are you licensed?
Florida requires a state mold remediator license to advertise or perform this work, and our number is on every page of this site and on every document we hand you. Ask for it from anyone who quotes you, and check it. It takes two minutes on the state license portal.
Tell us what you are seeing, across Broward and Palm Beach
Most of what we need to know takes about four minutes on the phone. Bring the smell, the stain, or the air quality result you do not understand.