A remediation company that started on the HVAC side
Most mold companies come out of water restoration. We came out of air conditioning, which is why we look at the equipment before we look at the wall.
We open the cabinet before we look at the wall. That is the whole difference.
The pattern that got us here is simple enough to state in one sentence: in South Florida, the air conditioner is the wettest thing in the building and it runs almost every day of the year. Once you have opened enough air handler cabinets, you stop being surprised that the ceiling stain in the guest room started in a closet forty feet away.
That perspective changes how we scope work. A restoration-trained crew called out for a musty smell will look for a leak, and when they do not find one they will look harder for a leak. We start by asking what the indoor humidity is doing, what the return looks like, and whether the plenum is duct board. A good share of the time that conversation ends without any demolition at all.
It also means we say no fairly often. We turn down duct cleaning on systems that do not need it, we tell people their ceiling stain is a repair rather than a remediation, and we refer the assessment side out because Florida requires it and because it is the right structure. None of that is generosity — it is that a remediation company lives on referrals, and the fastest way to lose them is to sell somebody work they did not need.
The standards we work to
This site refers to both repeatedly. Here is what they actually are, because almost nobody explains them.
- IICRC S520 — mold remediationFormally ANSI/IICRC S520, the Standard for Professional Mold Remediation — an ANSI-accredited consensus standard published by the IICRC. It defines the conditions a space can be in, the containment levels that correspond to them, and the principle the whole trade is meant to operate on: remediation means physically removing contamination, not treating it in place. It is what our scopes are written against.
- NADCA ACR — HVAC system cleaningThe Assessment, Cleaning and Restoration of HVAC Systems standard, published by NADCA. Its core requirement is source removal, and NADCA states it plainly: cleaning begins with agitation devices that loosen contaminants from the interior surfaces, and the entire system is held under continuous negative pressure throughout so nothing spreads while that happens. We vent the collection unit outside on top of that, which is our practice rather than something the standard specifies. It is what separates real duct cleaning from a vacuum at the register.
- Neither one is lawWorth being straight about. Florida licenses mold assessors and remediators under Chapter 468, but the statute does not mandate a particular technical standard. S520 and ACR are industry consensus documents. What they are is the reference a competent contractor writes scopes against — and the document an expert witness will hold a job up against if it ends up in front of one.
- Which is why naming one mattersA company that cannot tell you what standard it works to is not necessarily doing bad work, but it has given you nothing to measure the work against. Ask. The answer takes four seconds and it is genuinely informative either way.
How to check any mold contractor, including us
All five take minutes, none of them require you to know anything about mold, and they apply to our quote as much as anyone else’s.
- Verify the license yourself Florida licenses mold remediators and mold assessors separately, and both are searchable on the state’s public DBPR license portal. Ask for the number, then look it up rather than taking the number on the van as confirmation that it is current. How to checkA remediator license starts MRSR; an assessor license starts MRSA. If somebody is offering you both services on one property, that is the thing to question.
- Ask who performs the clearance test The answer should be an independent licensed assessor, not the company doing the removal. This is the single most informative question on the list. How to checkIf a company offers to test its own work, you have learned everything you need about how it operates.
- Ask what standard they work to S520 for remediation, NADCA ACR for duct work. You are not testing their recall — you are finding out whether there is a defined method behind the price.
- Get the scope in writing before the number matters Materials, square footage, what is removed versus cleaned, containment, equipment, exclusions, and who does the clearance. A number without those is not comparable to anything. Comparing three quotes goes through this properly.
- Confirm insurance, and ask specifically about pollution liability General liability is standard. Pollution liability is the one that actually responds to a mold claim, and not every contractor carries it. Ask for a certificate rather than a verbal answer.
Four things that are true of every job we run
- The moisture source is named in every scopeIf we cannot tell you why it happened, we have not finished the assessment.
- Porous material is removed, not treatedDuct board, saturated insulation, colonized drywall. If it holds moisture in a fiber, no chemical restores it.
- Somebody else grades the workIndependent clearance testing, every time, from a licensed assessor with no financial interest in the result.
- The scope is written so you can compare itMaterials, square footage, containment, equipment, exclusions. Detailed enough for a competitor to bid from.
Licensing and certification
- FL Mold Remediator Lic.null — verify any Florida mold license on the state’s public license portal before you hire anyone, including us.
- Certifications
- Insurancenull
- In business since2026 across Broward and Palm Beach County.
Tell us what you are seeing and we will tell you what it is
We come out, look at what is happening, and write you a scope you could hand to another company. Walkthrough rather than assessment on purpose — assessment is the separately licensed job we refer out. If it turns out you do not need remediation, we will say so — that is the most useful thing we can tell you.