Another moisture source that negatively impacts many of the homes, from a mold perspective in Florida, is the indoor humidity levels.  This moisture source is less understood in respect to its impact on the indoor environment.  Too often as well, it is poorly understood the critical role the HVAC system (Heating, Ventillation and Air Conditioning) has on the indoor relative humidity and indoor air quality as a whole.  When a properly maintained and operating residential A/C is running, it obviously is providing cooler air to the indoor space.  However, and far less understood is, it is also removing moisture from the air.  Residential HVAC design cools/heats the same indoor air over and over.  For air conditioning, the HVAC system pulls the air in the home into the system at the main return(s), cools it down and then supplies it back to all rooms in the home designed to be under air.  In the process of cooling the air down, it drops the air temperature to below the dew point temperature.  When this happens, water vapor in that air is condensed  into liquid water.  Those white PVC pipes we often see sticking out of the exterior base of a home that are dripping water, that's the water that was just in your home's air in the form of water vapor, commonly known as humidity.  When the HVAC system is not operating properly, oversized, turned off completely or has the thermostat set too high, it loses the ability to remove that water vapor from the indoor air.  As a result, indoor humidity levels increase.  Generally speaking, humidity levels consistently above 55% indoors provides sufficient moisture for many molds to grow.  This fact leads to the importance of the visual inspection part of our asseement.   All too often, a home can look just fine as you walk around,  upon closer inspection however, humidity driven mold growth can be growing on numerous surfaces throughout.  Interior sides of closet doors, the undersides of shelving, cabinets, tables and chairs are typical locations.  In this all too common scenario, the mold is utilizing the available moisture in the air (elevated indoor relative humidity) and settled out organic airborne particulate and/or organic building materials for food.  

As Board Certified Indoor Environmentalists (CIE) by the American Council for Accredited Certification and having performed well over 8,000 mold inspections in Florida since 2002, our hands-on field experience and technologically advanced tools, helps each of our clients receive a professional, comprehensive and well documented assessment of mold and moisture inside their home or business.  It is also critically important to realize that we, as a company, do not provide any remedial services.  Put simply, we don't fix anything.  As a result, we do not have any vested interest in the outcome of our assessment.  No financial gain interests or concerns, no financial losses interest or concerns.  Our # 1 job when in your home or business is to document our findings and provide you a comprehensive report.