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GOT MOLD?
Professional Quality Mold Test Kit for Home - 1 Room
- Highlights
- Refillable, Air sample, 2 tests, Lab analysis included
8.2
Performance score
010
Where to buy
- GOT MOLD?See price
Pros
- Simple to set up and use; just follow the included directions.
- Results come back fairly quickly after mailing in the sample.
- The company's website includes helpful articles on mold testing and remediation.
Cons
- Only includes one testing pod, even at the higher price point, which limits how much you can assess.
- Still requires mailing the sample to a lab, so it's not faster than other mail-in kits.
- Uses professional-grade spore trap cassettes (the same method professional inspectors use) rather than the petri dish approach found in most DIY kits. A small air sampling pump draws air through the cassette, capturing airborne mold spores for lab analysis.
- Each indoor sample takes about five minutes to collect. You also collect one outdoor reference sample, which the lab uses as a baseline to compare against your indoor results.
- The price covers everything: lab analysis, the reusable BioVac air sampler, batteries, and prepaid return shipping. Results come back electronically within about three business days of the lab receiving your samples.
- The BioVac pump is reusable, so if you want to retest later or check a different property, you only need to buy refill cassettes. GOT MOLD? also has a share program encouraging you to pass the pump along to others.
- Founded by someone whose severe childhood asthma turned out to be caused by mold in his home. The company operates on a strict inspection-only philosophy, meaning they don't sell remediation services or products, which removes the conflict of interest common in the mold industry.
- Worth knowing: spore traps capture what's floating in the air at the time of sampling. If mold is hidden inside a wall or the air has been still for a long time, this type of non-toxic mold test kit may not detect it.
