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Certified Mold Inspection and Mold Testing in Massachusetts

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Healthy Indoor Air Quality

Professional Certified Trained Inspectors

  • Mold Testing and Mold Inspections
  • Indoor Air Quality Solutions
  • Council Certified Microbial Consultant
  • Indoor Environmental Consultations

Advanced certifications in mold testing and mold inspections. We provide indoor allergy tests and mold testing, water damage, and moisture assessments. Our thorough inspections include a visual site inspection along with a protocol of mold sampling where and if needed. We utilize moisture meters for water and excess moisture and relative humidity detection, water losses, and property damage for homes, offices, and businesses.

Environmental Consultations to provide indoor air quality solutions and goals to help identify the problem and minimize impact due to floods, storms, pipe leaks, mold, high relative humidity, or condensation. Environmental Resources is here to offer peace of mind for your home, business, and office. We provide a thorough visual inspection to look for and detect black mold, allergenic or pathogenic mold fungi. Indoor air testing and direct sampling, odor investigations, and allergy assessments for pollen, dander, fibers, dust, or dust mites. We can provide supervised independent oversight, support for mold remediation projects, and post-mold remediation verification following industry standards and guidelines. Healthy home indoor air quality consulting to point you in the right direction with preventative measures where needed. May your air quality be clean so that you may breathe easier whether it is mold, allergies, flooding, or odors.

Quality Service

Detailed comprehensive mold and moisture reports including observations and considerations of the scope of work. Rapid turnaround time for real estate or other emergencies of mold samples from accredited A.H.I.A. and E.M.P.A.T. (Environmental Microbiology Proficiency Analytical Testing Certified Microbiological Labs.)   

Mold contamination and mold spores can affect your health, especially those with asthma, COPD, allergies and weak immune systems, your own home infested with mold growth, excess water leaks, dampness, high relative humidity, and heating, ventilation, air conditioning – H.V.A.C. issues. Mold has no respect for where it grows providing the right temperature, nutrients, food source of porous materials, and conditions of indoor environments. If you suspect mold inside your environment, moldy odors, musty moldy basement or crawlspace, attic, bathroom, bedroom, office, and more then call us, the mold and moisture professional. Special assignments and environmental networking – consulting available upon request.

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781-248-9975

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About Us

Indoor Air Quality Solutions

https://www.promoldinspections.com 781-2148-9975

Environmental Resources is a small consulting company established in 2003 in the Massachusetts area serving the coastal areas of the north and south shore, Cape Cod, and greater Boston. We are dedicated to providing your family, home, office, or business with healthier living indoors with the latest state-of-the-art technologies for your indoor air quality needs such as professional mold and moisture inspections and certified mold testing. 

We provide environmental consulting for a variety of indoor air quality needs and solutions. Needs such as breathing clean indoor air with a concern for potential health exposure of the air you breathe, and saving you up to thousands of dollars if necessary.

My name is Andy Provitola, I am the owner and a certified consultant of this unique company. I hold a bachelor’s degree in B.A. and continue to learn in classes and trade conferences in the environmental science field such as microbiology, health and safety, indoor air quality, etc. The current field experience I have personally conducted hundreds of mold inspections, consultations, and assessments in over 19 plus years. Using the latest state-of-the-art equipment to help detect mold growth and excess moisture. We do not perform mold removal or remediation, so we provide you with an objective independent evaluation with no conflict of interest. 

Our goal for our clients is to help point you in the right direction and help you save possibly thousands of dollars in unwanted mold remediation and mold removal costs when it is not necessary. When mold remedial is necessary we can provide a scope of work if needed. We recommend this protocol utilizing EPA or ANSI/IICRC S520 industry standards and guidelines for mold remediation projects. Currently, there are no Federal Threshold Limit Values TLV’s of governmental standards for testing for mold.

Professional Certifications:​

  • CMC #1009018: Council Certified Microbial Consultant: ACAC
  • Building Envelopes: Flir Infrared Thermal Camera
  • OSHA 40 HAZWOPER 29 CFR 1910.120
  • Water Damage Restoration-IICRC
  • Laboratories are Microbiological AIHA & EMPAT certified where samples are analyzed
  • Many other certifications or attendance for Indoor Science conferences with mold and air quality, etc

Locations:

Serving South Shore Hingham-Norwell, Scituate, Cohasset, Duxbury, Hanover, Pembroke Massachusetts, Cape Cod – Martha’s Vineyard- Barnstable County, Plymouth County, Norfolk County, Middlesex County, Suffolk County, Middlesex County, Brisol County

Environmental Resources http://www.airenvironments.com

781-248-9975

Healthy Indoor Air Quality

The Value of Mold Testing

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What is the value of mold testing? Too often I have read if you see the mold just get rid of it or remove it! This can be true to a certain extent, however, what if you can smell the mold but cannot see it? There may be a strong musty odor or excess moisture or dampness. I do agree if you see the mold growth to get rid of it or have the moldy affected area treated and cleaned if it cannot be removed. What about the mold that may be hidden or unseen such as behind a wall or ceiling with no access? Mold spores that are airborne are not visible to the naked eye. Just because the surfaces of the walls, ceiling, floor areas are not moist with no surface mold growth, does not indicate that mold spores are not present. it should be noted that every building has some forms of mold, but we are looking at unusual or high excessive mold growth and contamination. Usually after a heavy floor, or excessive pipe leak from a faucet, shower, radiator, plumbing backup, or roof leak can indicate some excess mold growth. A thorough visible inspection of the affected and non affected areas is important and not always having to test or sample for mold. Using a quality moisture meter will help with this, but sampling is only part of the process to come up with a good conclusion with a visible inspection. Air testing alone is not the proper way to assess for mold growth.

The Value of Mold Sampling is Threefold:

  • The air testing will help to determine the mold spore elevations present in the room or area of concern whether they are excessive beyond our natural environment. It should be noted there are no governmental standards or threshold limit values for mold testing. There is industry guidance from professional industries. As a general rule and widely accepted in the indoor air quality field, the numbers and types of mold spores that are present in the indoor environment should not exceed those that are present outdoors at any given time.
  • The purpose of sampling and counting spores is to help determine whether an abnormal condition exists within the indoor environment and if it does to help pinpoint the area of contamination.
  • Mold testing can be subjective, but can help to identify excess mold spores and the type of mold spores indicated in a room or affected area. A spore trap can pick up several types of species in a sample. This can help to determine if it is a common type of mold or a water damage mold such as a mycotoxin, pathogenic, or allergenic type species.
  • Mold sampling can help during or after a mold remediation project to confirm if the mold clean up was effective with verifying low mold spore counts and/or eliminating any nasty water damage type molds such as Stachybotrys, Chaetomium, or excess Aspergillus/Penicillium molds.

Another value for a professional assessment for mold is the peace of mind to know that your investment or health are not at risk. “An ounce of prevention is always better than a pound of cure”.

Mold testing and assessment is best to be performed by a certified and trained (experienced) professional independent consultant or company that does not remediate or remove mold. his help to offer an objective unbiased assessment with accountability. All our samples are sent to a qualified and trained lab accredited and certified. EMPAT,AIHA, Microbiology labs.

Having over twenty years of personal and professional experience with hundreds of mold inspections and indoor air quality assessments. There are times when the mold in a building or home looks worse than what may appear and at other times the room, walls, ceiling, floors, look clean, dry, and innocent only to find the room has excess mold mycotic, and allergenic in nature beyond a “normal environment”. Although there are currently no federal standards or guidelines regarding results of fungal samples and there no no levels that are typical or permissible, there is still value in testing and inspections. The key to stopping a mold problem is to correct the cause and source of the problem. It is important to correct and fix the source to have effective remediation to prevent another problem

Andy Provitola CMC

Environmental Resources & Services

https://www.airenvironments.com