Mold Inspection & Testing in Lafayette, LA

When a mold inspection is worth booking

• A musty smell with nothing visible, often strongest when the air conditioning starts.
• Stains or growth that come back on the same ceiling or wall after painting.
• A leak, a storm or high water, before wet walls and floors are closed up again.
• A house sale. The Louisiana Department of Health notes that a seller of residential property in Louisiana must provide a Property Disclosure Statement, which should include information on previous or current mold problems.
• A rental, where the landlord and the tenant both need the same facts on paper.
• The end of a remediation job, when a clearance check by someone other than the remediation contractor confirms the work.

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What happens during a Lafayette mold inspection

The assessor walks the house with you first, then works through it with a pin moisture meter and a thermal camera, which shows cool, damp patches behind paint before they stain. The places that hide water get a closer look: the wall behind a shower, the cabinet under the kitchen sink, the closet that holds the air handler, the attic over the bathrooms and, under a raised house, the joists and subfloor. Readings and photos go onto a floor plan.

In Lafayette the list grows with the age of the house. The city's median home was built in 1981 and 48 percent of its housing predates 1980 (Census ACS 2020-2024). In older districts such as Freetown-Port Rico, where the National Register nomination notes that most houses are raised on piers, the assessor spends as long under the floor as in the rooms.

The report then says where the moisture is, which materials have growth in them, which must come out, and what has to be repaired so the problem does not come back.

Mold testing: when samples help and when they do not

The Louisiana Department of Health says that in most cases it does not recommend testing for mold, and Louisiana has no set standards for mold levels indoors. Visible growth on material that is coming out anyway does not need a lab to name it.

Samples earn their fee in a few situations: a smell with no visible source, where an air sample next to an outdoor sample can point to a hidden reservoir; a dispute between a landlord and a tenant, or a buyer and a seller, where a lab result is neutral ground; an insurance claim; and the clearance check after remediation, which compares the air in the work area with the air outside.

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Why the mold inspection firm stays independent

Under La. R.S. 37:2158(A)(23), a mold remediation contractor may not perform both mold assessment and mold remediation on the same property, may not own an interest in both businesses on the same property, and must give a written report to each person it does paid work for. An inspection booked through this number is carried out by an independent firm, and any removal it calls for goes to a separate remediation contractor working from that scope.

That split protects you twice: the scope is not inflated by the firm that would profit from it, and the check at the end is not marked by the firm whose work it checks.

Mold inspection and testing prices in Lafayette

A standard assessment of a house, with moisture mapping, thermal imaging and a written report, is $300 to $600. Getting under a raised house adds $75 to $150. For a house that took water in August 2016, checking the wall cavities and floor framing that flood reached adds $100 to $200. Lab work is priced per sample: between $50 and $100 for each air sample, between $40 and $80 for each surface sample. A clearance check after remediation is $200 to $400. Every range is collected on the cost page.

Booking a mold inspection

Ring (337) 294-0039 with the address, what you are noticing and where, and whether water has come in from a leak, a storm or a flood. Say if a sale, a lease or a claim is behind the request, because it changes what the report has to cover. The callback form below works too.

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