Plain terms

About Us

We do mold and water-damage work in the Twin Cities, and we publish the rules that govern it — statutes, agency guidance, census data — with links, so anything on these pages can be checked against the original.

How we work

Moisture first, always. Growth is the symptom; the water is the problem, and a scope written before anyone has read a moisture meter is a guess wearing a price tag. So the sequence is fixed: you call and describe what you see or smell; the inspection hunts the water with meters and the likely paths; the scope and quote go in writing — what comes out, what gets contained, what "done" means; and on sizable remediation we welcome independent third-party clearance, because the party grading the work should not be the only one paid for it. Who performs and warrants what is spelled out, in plain language, in our terms.

Lines we will not cross

• We will not scare you. Our health language tracks CDC and the Minnesota health department, and the black-mold page is built to cool the panic down, not stoke it. A doctor, not a website, is where health questions go.
• We will not fake credibility. You will find no review widget, no testimonial, no star rating, no photo gallery of jobs, no years-in-business math. A number that cannot be checked simply is not printed here.
• We will not manufacture urgency. Real urgency is real — a live leak counts — but our emergency page states outright that mold on its own is seldom a drop-everything crisis.
• We will not sell you a test you do not need. CDC skips routine species testing and so do we; when mold is visible, a test tends to pad the bill without moving the fix, and we say so plainly even though testing is work we do.

The point of the guides

What makes Minnesota worth a set of guides is how odd its mold rules are. There is no mold license here for anyone to hold — the health department states that flatly — and no exposure limit was ever set, so a spore count decides nothing official. Renters get their leverage from the general habitability covenant instead of any mold-specific law, and whether an insurer pays comes down to a sudden-versus-gradual distinction that most write-ups botch. So each guide points straight at its source: a statute by section on the Legislature's Revisor site, a CDC or EPA page, a Minnesota health-department document, a census table by its number. Anything that could not be pinned to a primary source did not make the page.

Check any contractor — including us

A Minnesota residential contractor's license is verifiable in about a minute at the Department of Labor and Industry (dli.mn.gov), and you should run that check on anyone who works in your home. Minnesota licenses no mold work as such, so for a multi-trade remediation the residential building-contractor or remodeler license is the credential that exists to check. A contractor who hesitates when asked about licensing has answered a different question for you.

Coverage

We work across the metro. The twelve city pages — Minneapolis and St. Paul through the inner-ring suburbs out to Maple Grove — carry census-sourced housing profiles because the metro's three housing eras grow mold three different ways across three seasons, and pretending depth on every suburb would be exactly the kind of filler this site was built to avoid.