Looked at a water damage this morning. Condo's. Unit to left about 200sf of flooring wet. Unit to right...source. Get in there, (this one is a rental, unit 1 owner occupied) carpet wet throughout entire unit. Look in AC closet....entire closet filled with mold. Door to closet is like wet cardboard. Call the owner tell him what I see.
He says how much. I say, I don't know just yet...a full scope needs to be done--but several thousand $'s just on what I see. He says..."It's not toxic mold, it's just regular household mold, it shouldn't be much." I say, how do you know it is not toxic? He says, " I have been doing this a long time son, toxic mold is extremely rare."
So I ask him what class he took to determine the toxicity of mold without testing or seeing it for that matter.
He said that he didn't need to take any classes to know how to deal with mold.
I said oh, ok. He said, so are you going to give me a number or what. I said sure, somewhere between $5 and $30,000. He did not find the humor in that.
So I just said, look we are going to do it by the book, if that is what you want I will get some numbers together once protocol has been set...and the last IH I worked with charged $1700 for testing and protocol and post remediation verification.
I am expecting my phone to ring any minute now! LOL
WISE
He says how much. I say, I don't know just yet...a full scope needs to be done--but several thousand $'s just on what I see. He says..."It's not toxic mold, it's just regular household mold, it shouldn't be much." I say, how do you know it is not toxic? He says, " I have been doing this a long time son, toxic mold is extremely rare."
So I ask him what class he took to determine the toxicity of mold without testing or seeing it for that matter.
He said that he didn't need to take any classes to know how to deal with mold.
I said oh, ok. He said, so are you going to give me a number or what. I said sure, somewhere between $5 and $30,000. He did not find the humor in that.
So I just said, look we are going to do it by the book, if that is what you want I will get some numbers together once protocol has been set...and the last IH I worked with charged $1700 for testing and protocol and post remediation verification.
I am expecting my phone to ring any minute now! LOL
WISE