Mold inspection & testing
Finding what is actually wet, where it is coming from, and whether testing is worth paying for in your situation.
What's involvedTell us what you are smelling or seeing and we will connect you with an independent mold remediation contractor who covers your part of Middle Georgia. There is no charge for the referral and no obligation to hire anyone.
We are a referral service, not a remediation company. We do not carry a truck or a dehumidifier. What we do is get your problem in front of a contractor who does.
Four pressure points behind most mold calls in Bibb County.
Macon sits on the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, about 85 miles southeast of Atlanta, in what the Köppen system files under humid subtropical. The National Park Service puts average annual precipitation at Ocmulgee Mounds at 45.7 inches, and the summer heat index regularly pushes past 100 degrees. Rain falls in every month of the year. There is no dry season to give a building a chance to catch up.
That combination is unkind to houses in a specific way. Warm, wet outdoor air is constantly looking for a cooler surface to condense on, and in Bibb County it usually finds one. In summer, the coolest surfaces in a Macon home tend to be the underside of the floor above a vented crawl space, an air-conditioning supply duct, and the sheet metal of the air handler itself.
The housing stock makes it worse. The median Macon–Bibb home was built around 1977, and roughly one in twelve predates 1940 — the Vineville, Ingleside and Shirley Hills districts are full of houses from the 1920s through the 1950s. Those homes were built on perimeter foundations with vented crawl spaces, on the reasonable-sounding theory that moving air keeps wood dry. In this climate, through July and August, moving humid air across cool joists does the opposite.
And then there is the river. In July 1994, rain from Tropical Storm Alberto pushed the Ocmulgee at Macon to a record crest of 35.4 feet against a flood stage of 15, breached the levee, and put the water treatment plant out of service for close to three weeks. As recently as September 2024, the remnants of Hurricane Helene brought the river to its highest level since. Homes in the low-lying parts of east and south Macon have a flood history that shows up in their framing decades later.
None of this makes mold inevitable. It does mean that in Middle Georgia, killing visible mold without finding the water that fed it is a waste of your money, because the same conditions will regrow it in the same spot.
Inspection and testing, containment and removal, crawl space work, HVAC cleaning, and the moisture repairs that stop the whole thing happening again.
Finding what is actually wet, where it is coming from, and whether testing is worth paying for in your situation.
What's involvedSealing the work area, removing what cannot be saved, cleaning what can, and drying the space down to a number.
What's involvedCleaning the joists, sealing the ground, and deciding whether to keep venting a space that vents humid air onto cool wood.
What's involvedAn independent look at the finished work before reconstruction begins, with readings rather than reassurance.
What's involvedDrainage, gutters, plumbing, roofing and humidity control — the repairs that decide whether the job holds.
What's involvedCoils, drain pans, condensate lines and duct runs — the parts of the system that make water and then blow air across it.
What's involvedBelow-grade walls, hillside drainage and finished lower levels that were never built to handle water.
What's involvedRoof sheathing, rafters, blocked ventilation and the bathroom fan that was never vented outside.
What's involvedDescribe the smell, the stain, the leak, the room. Photos help but are not required. If you are mid-sale and working to an inspection deadline, say so on the first call — it changes who we route you to.
We tell you which company we are passing your details to. They contact you directly to schedule. You are not signing anything at this stage and you are not obligated to use them.
A competent assessment means moisture readings on affected and unaffected material, a look at the crawl space and attic, and an answer to the question of where the water is coming from — not just where the stain is.
Compare it against what we describe on our services pages. If it does not name the moisture source or explain containment, push back or get a second opinion. We will happily refer you to another contractor.
Fill this in and we'll match you with a contractor who works in your area. If it's urgent, calling is faster.
Macon and Bibb County are the core of what we cover, but the network reaches into Houston, Peach, Jones, Monroe, Crawford and Baldwin counties as well.
Correct, and it surprises most people. Georgia has no state licensing or certification requirement for mold inspectors or mold remediation contractors. A handful of states — Florida, Texas, Louisiana, New York and a few others — do license this trade. Georgia does not.
What Georgia does regulate is construction. Contractors performing residential or general construction work over $2,500 generally need a license from the Georgia State Licensing Board for Residential and General Contractors. So a company doing demolition and rebuild after a mold job may well hold a state contractor license — just not a mold-specific one, because no such thing exists here.
In the absence of a state credential, the industry standard most reputable firms work to is the IICRC S520 standard for mold remediation, and many technicians hold voluntary third-party training. Ask about it.
Nothing. We do not charge property owners for the referral, we do not take a cut of your invoice, and there is no obligation to hire the contractor we introduce you to. The contractor quotes you directly and you deal with them directly from that point on.
For most of Macon–Bibb it is usually same-day or next-day for a first phone conversation and a scheduled visit within a few business days. It stretches during and after heavy rain events, when every restoration company in Middle Georgia is triaging water damage at once. If you are dealing with active standing water rather than old mold, say that immediately — water extraction is a different queue and a faster one.
It is worth investigating. A persistent musty smell with nothing visible in the living space very often traces to a crawl space, an attic, the inside of a duct run, or the cavity behind a wall where a slow supply-line leak has been running. In Macon's older neighborhoods the crawl space is the first place a good inspector will go, because that is where the humid summer air meets the cool underside of your floor.
It depends entirely on the cause, and we cannot tell you what your policy does — read it or call your agent. As a general rule, Georgia policies are more likely to respond when mold is the consequence of a sudden covered event, like a burst pipe or storm damage, and much less likely when it results from long-term humidity, seepage or deferred maintenance. Many policies also cap mold coverage at a set dollar figure regardless of cause. Document everything with dated photos before anything is torn out.
Describe what you're smelling or seeing and we'll pass it to an independent mold remediation contractor covering your part of Middle Georgia. The referral costs you nothing and commits you to nothing.