BioCide Labs DIY Mold Test Kit for Home Air Quality - Test 10 Locations, Lab Analysis and Consultation Included - Home Air & Surface, HVAC Testing Kit

Great product! Only test sanctioned by DOD military housing, only lab that is approved in all 50 states and they have the only lab tech certified in all 50 states by the EPA. Great team to work with. This test was integral in moving us to better and healthier housing. The lab is fast and easy to work with. If not for this lab we wouldn’t have known how bad our housing is and would not have been able to advocate for better housing. They are an extremely knowledgeable company. I have no affiliation financially with them. I recommend them as they have given us the tools to live in safer and healthier housing.

The test kit would be a good value if it actually presented something of value to the customer, but it does not. The bogus report is designed to scare the customer into buying a whole host of BioCide products (from a company clearly and directly associated with the sellers of the test kits) that will cost you literally thousands of dollars. Worst of all, the test kit sales person (trying very hard AND very convincingly to sound like a scientist evaluating your test report) AND the sales person that is referred to you for purchasing mold remediation products both very politely and persuasively impress you with a tremendous sense of urgency. The first salesman tells me any local remediation company would declare my house a hazard, dictating that I leave the home and that that they procure special hazmat permits to remediate. The second salesman told me "I'm not usually this aggressive about selling, but I don't want you breathing that hazardous mold any longer than necessary." The ironic part is that the initial salesman told me that is would be a conflict of interest for his company to both provide the test AND the remediation. And then he promptly transferred me to the remediation company salesperson at Biocide, and both are in Dawsonville, GA. Steer clear of this scam!

Out of all the reviews & comments I read on accuracy of these home test kits I went w this one because I had already spoken w this company in Georgia & am still working with them. I believe they are honest & fair.

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This is a basic oen time, 4 or more spot environmental swab test. They give recommendations, you walk around your house, swab then they send to a basic EuroFins (lab company) location for a general mold spectrum test to check for common household molds (not all species). Test was fine, results are given in paper but they will have a rep speak with youThis part is my only area of complaint. I am somewhat trained in this area for consumer goods facility testing and they came back with some species and counts saying I should be very concerned and need to hire someone or get instruction to clean my house out right away. Problem is, even when I mentioned weather and my outdoor counts are about the same from the week I did the swab, the person insisted I was risking health, etc.I actually had an allergist (awarded, long time personal MD) visit and he even said the counts matched current outdoors and were in very good ranges considering the rain in area.The person on the phone from the lab had insisted there should be no mold spores in the house. Here is the thing, 1. You will have outdoor exposure no matter what due to air/ventilation exchange that is normal and just walking in/out of house. Unless you have a medical sterile room grade filtration system and walls. 2. Spores are actually when the mold goes into a "hibernation" of sorts, or their "egg" state. I explained there were no visible spots, odors, current indoor wet areas. The person tried to tell me that I had to have a leak of at least 70-80% to even have spores show up. As a science trained person with sufficient microbiology basics and applications work, a) depending on mold type, some mold grows as low as 40-50% (ever see mold in a jar of forgotten jam or tomato sauce in your fridge?) And also, yes it loves 70-95% humidity, and generally is growing rather than going into spore state. So there would be colored or white fuzz, or black spots or odor if the humidity is high enough and also, having had mold allergies, I certainly would have been choking by then even if not visible.And of course, the person had so many recommendations and referrals.So.. test is fine, I got the data I needed. I was curious about what they would say, and it felt frightening and pressured. After reading the actual report, and comparing some environmental values around area from the same week, it was obvious my results were actually very good, and even a little lower than outdoor counts (slightly) which meant my filters were working.So, just please do your homework. The count results are worth getting but spending additional money for cleaning without any other suspicious signs or without external environmental values to see what is in the air around you and outside of the home to compare, is definitely not worth it and can become a costly headache. In my case, from experience from jobs, I can say any "mold cleaning" would have been extremely expensive and would not have been a significant enough reduction without changing my walls, door and window seals and types, HVAC filtration system and sealing off my attic area and fans then rerouting the attic airflow systems into the rest of the HVAC system before having any real significant effect to the "mold spores count". Plus I would have to get rid of all my plants and pots with any soil, and be careful with any fresh local vegetables with roots and soil traces, as well as not let pets come in from the outside, mine or friend's pets who might track some spores in. And frankly, mold spores are only removed fully with very specialty, expensive severely dangerous chemical cleaning (such as chloride gas types), and I don't want those types of chemicals in my house unless I have black mold overgrowth that is at true life threatening numbers!

Easy to administer test. When the results came back in a representative from the company called me to discuss the report, to make sure I understood the type of toxic mold they’d found, not to try to sell me another service or product. Highly recommend.

Like most of the other reviews say, about a month after sending in your results you’ll receive a phone call to go over your results and, even though I’m not a betting man, I bet they’ll want you to buy a fogging kit from their parent company ASAP.Here’s the deal: because this test kit uses a swab, you won’t be able to verify your results and their recommendations. If you google the spore counts in your report, nothing will come up, as most other tests yield results in spores per cubic meter. The spore counts given in this test don’t help one bit because you can’t verify what the lab tech (salesman) is telling you.Do yourself a favor and buy an air test (Petri dish that you set out) because at least you can google those results to determine if your spore count is normal.To confirm what all the other reviewers are saying, Mold Test Company (the ones doing the test) and BioCide Labs (the company selling mold remediation products) are registered out of the same address. Weird.