Our Featured Mold Check™ Kits

Whole House (Air & Surface)
* Home/Office Air and Surface Test Kit
* 8 Rooms + 2 Surfaces
* Only $49.95		 Apartment / Condo (Air & Surface)
* Apartment/Office Air and Surface Test Kit
* 4 Rooms + 1 Surface
* Only $39.95		 Air and Surface Kit - Test and Re-test
* 12 Tests +3 Surfaces
* Only $64.95



Air Testing For Whole House Mold Testing

If you suspect you have a source of hidden black or toxic mold? Then you want to use tools in the MoldCheck™ Mold Testing Kit as a dust and airborne mold detection inspection system. (See MoldCheck™ Kits #5, #10 and #15.)

The MoldCheck™ Mold Testing Kits can help find the indoor source of your mold allergy and guide the mold remediation of the contaminated area.

Surface Mold Testing

When you find a source of suspect mold, there are two ways to test it. The Prove-it™ Method You simply wipe a swab through the suspect mold and wipe it onto one of the test films. If it grows it's mold.

The Tox-Check™ Laboratory Method

You purchase the Tox-Check™ swab test kit and send the swab to the certified mold testing laboratory. The lab will indentify all the molds present including any toxic mold. Note: Many molds growing on building materials are black in color, but only a few are or maybe toxic.

Mold Contamination Symptoms - Sick Building Syndrome

Asthma Allergies Sinitis From MoldDo you find that you feel ill, sneezy, coughy, headachey when you return home of go to work or some particular room? Ongoing research is finding strong relationships between indoor mold contamination and the following health symptoms:

 

How do the mold testing kits work?

The MoldCheck™ Mold Testing Kits use high-tech mold testing films (not Petri dishes or poured liquids) to sample the air or surfaces for toxic black mold spore contamination. This NEWLY patented, "do it yourself" mold testing technology enables you to detect the relative levels of indoor mold spores in the various rooms in your house and compare them to each other in order to find the room with the hidden contamination. You can also prove what you have found growing on a surface is live mold or toxic black mold by using the Toxic Mold Screening Method in this Mold Testing Kit™.

How do you find hidden toxic black mold or any Mold?

The MoldCheck™ Mold Testing Kits have three simple steps to track down hidden mold.

  1. You test all your rooms at the same time so you can compare them; You identify the rooms with the highest toxic black mold spore counts.
  2. Then using the Kit's Investigation Guide, conduct a thorough investigation for black mold contamination or any mold, water leaks and condensation in the high count room, and
  3. You clean up mold contamination using the Clean Up Guide to prepare a safe mold cleanup plan.

The various Mold Check™ Mold Testing Kits include

Kit Uses - the MoldCheck™ Mold Test Kits can be used 4 ways

  1. Test all of the rooms in your house or apartment at the same time, in order to find the room with the highest mold spore count and the most likely location of the hidden contamination.
  2. Cleanup / Re-Test - after you have found toxic black mold or any mold and cleaned it up you can use the mold testing film to re-test and see how clean the surface is.
  3. Filter Monitoring: You can also use the kit to monitor how effectively your air filtering system is working in each of your rooms.
  4. Surfaces - use the film with a swab sampler to prove what you found is live mold or toxic black mold, "Stachybotrys."

Toxic Black Mold/Laboratory Confirmation Testing

Toxic Black Mold Testing in a laboratory

If you want to indentify the scientific name of the suspect toxic black mold and other molds you have detected using the MoldCheck™ Toxic Black Mold Testing Kit, you must send one sampling swab to a qualified mold testing environmental microbiology laboratory.

The kit includes a sampling swab to send to the mold testing lab. Generally the laboratory testing industry charges from $20.00 to $100.00 depending on the type of identification you choose. The Tox-Check™ Lab fee is $29.95 only if you choose to send in the swab for indentification.

However, the various federal environmental and health agencies (see Links) suggest that if you can see mold growth, you don't need to identify its name to see if it is a toxic mold unless your allergist or lawyer wants to know. Just clean the mold up - all of it and dry the area as soon as possible! (see our Mold Clean Up page)

Health Effects

It is universally agreed in the environmental field that there is a general negative health impact to living in any type of indoor moldy environment. Regardless of whether it is a toxic type or not, excessive indoor mold spores can make you feel "sickly."

"Katrina Cough" is the name given by patients and doctors to the persistent cough and mold allergy symptoms caused by suspected house mold or toxic black mold and mildew, or other dusty household mold, after Hurricane Katrina flooded their homes and work places.

"Katrina cough" is not caused by any bacterial or viral infection, but rather seems to be the result of the persistent and powerful irritants found in the dusty, moldy buildings left behind by Hurricane Katrina or any major flooding event.

Conclusion

Once you have found a source of toxic black mold, you don't need more than one test to check it out or identify it - just safely clean it up and dry the area out. See our Mold Clean Up Guide™ for more information. All molds, including toxic mold, are cleaned up the same way with multiple applications of inexpensive sanitizers and detergents, and drying up the moisture condition.

Mold Check™ Whole House Hidden Mold Testing

Mold Check™ Mold Testing Kits are complete indoor mold detection, toxic black mold testing, mold investigation, and black mold clean-up kits, they will help you track down, prove and clean-up mold contamination in your house. The toxic black mold testing films in these toxic black mold test kits will determine the relative level of mold spores in the air in each room, on surfaces in the house, apartment or office, and help you find the location of the leak or other moisture problem in the building. This will help you find any mold including toxic black mold do-it-yourself toxic black mold testing and mold detection kits.