Testing & Assessment
Mold Inspection & Testing in Dickinson, ND
An assessment establishes whether mold is present, where it is growing, and how far it extends — before anyone quotes removal. A mold inspection locates moisture and growth that a room-level look would miss, reading wall cavities, subfloor, and the areas behind finished surfaces. The result is a scope: what is affected, what has to come out, and what is driving the moisture.
Most people reach this page after noticing something rather than after something broke: a smell that returns, a stain that spreads, a room that feels damp. An inspection answers what is actually there and where the moisture comes from, which is the information every later decision depends on. Several states, Texas among them, keep assessment and remediation as separate licensed roles specifically so the party identifying the problem is not the party selling the fix. Nothing here is medical advice — if you have health questions, those are for a clinician.
Every pro in our network is licensed and insured in North Dakota.
Frequently asked questions
Nineteen inches a year. Why would a basement here move at all?
Because the soil and the freeze do the work the rain total does not. Pierre shale changes volume with small wettings, and a long freeze heaves the same wall for months. June then wets the shale just as the frost leaves, so one modest month undoes a winter of movement and starts a new one.
The addition is from the oil boom and the original house is not. Why is the old basement wetter?
Fill. Boom additions often sit on imported material that drains toward the older footing, so the original basement becomes the low point of a lot that used to shed away from it. The new rooms can be dry while the 1970s wall takes water the addition redirected.
Hail and rain in the same cell. Which one opens the roof?
Usually the hail, with the rain as the test. Hail strips granules and bruises the mat without making a hole you can see from the ground, and the rain immediately behind it uses whatever that opened. The leak may wait a season, which is why the connection to the storm is easy to miss.