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Mold Check Whole House Mold Testing
Mold Check Mold Detection Kits are new indoor mold detection, toxic black mold testing, mold investigation, and black mold clean-up kits that help you track down, prove and clean-up mold contamination in your house. The toxic black mold testing films in these toxic black mold test kits will determine the relative level of mold spores in the air in each room, on surfaces in the house, apartment or office, and help you find the location of the leak or other moisture problem in the building. This will help you find the toxic black mold contamination, without the need for the services of a toxic black mold detection expert or testing laboratory. These are do-it-yourself toxic black mold testing and mold detection kits.
Surface Mold Testing
Have you already found the source of suspect mold toxic black or toxic mold growth and want to identify it? - Then you want to use the Do-It-Yourself Tox-Check™ surface mold testing kit or the optional Tox-Check™ Mold Testing Labs service.
Air/Dust Whole House Mold Testing
If you suspect you have a source of hidden black or toxic mold? Then you want to use tools in the MoldCheck Mold Testing Kit as a dust and airborne mold detection inspection system. (See MoldCheck Kits #5, #10 and #15.)

The MoldCheck Mold Testing Kits can help find the indoor source of your mold allergy and guide the mold remediation of the contaminated area.

Mold Contamination Symptoms: Ongoing research is finding strong relationships between indoor mold contamination and the following health symptoms:

How do the mold testing kits work?
The MoldCheck Mold Testing Kits use high-tech mold testing films (not Petri dishes or poured liquids) to sample the air or surfaces for toxic black mold spore contamination. This NEWLY patented, "do it yourself" mold testing technology enables you to detect the relative levels of indoor mold spores in the various rooms in your house and compare them to each other in order to find the room with the hidden contamination. You can also prove what you have found growing on a surface is live mold or toxic black mold by using the Toxic Mold Screening Method in this Mold Testing Kit™.
How do you find hidden toxic black mold?
The MoldCheck Mold Testing Kits have three simple steps to track down hidden mold.

You test all your rooms at the same time so you can compare them; You identify the rooms with the highest toxic black mold spore counts. Then using the Kit's Investigation Guide, conduct a thorough investigation for black mold contamination, water leaks and condensation in the high count room, and
You clean up mold contamination using the Clean Up Guide to prepare a safe mold cleanup plan.

Easy to use black mold testing films that collect and grow mold spores which are viewed and counted through the clear plastic cover

The Mold Detection GuideTM which will help you search for and locate hidden moisture and mold sources

Toxic Black Mold Sceening Kit - Each Mold Testing Kit comes with a surface mold collection swab and instructions on how to screen your sample to see if you have black mold, which is potentially the toxic black mold "Stachybotrys."

Test all of the rooms in your house or apartment at the same time, in order to find the room with the highest mold spore count and the most likely location of the contamination.

Cleanup / Re-Test - after you have found toxic black mold and cleaned it up you can use the mold testing film to re-test and see how clean the surface is.
Filter Monitoring: You can also use the kit to monitor how effectively your air filtering system is working in each of your rooms.
Surfaces - use the film with a swab sampler to prove what you found is live mold or toxic black mold, "Stachybotrys."

Toxic Black Mold Testing in a laboratory:
If you want to indentify the scientific name of the suspect toxic black mold and other molds you have detected using the MoldCheck™ Toxic Black Mold Testing Kit, you must send one sampling swab to a qualified mold testing environmental microbiology laboratory.

The kit includes a sampling swab to send to the mold testing lab. Generally the laboratory testing industry charges from $20.00 to $100.00 depending on the type of identification you choose. The Tox-Check™ Lab fee is $29.95 only if you choose to send in the swab for indentification.
However, the various federal environmental and health agencies (see Links) suggest that if you can see mold growth, you don't need to identify its name to see if it is a toxic mold unless your allergist or lawyer wants to know. Just clean the mold up - all of it and dry the area as soon as possible! (see our Mold Clean Up page)

It is universally agreed in the environmental field that there is a general negative health impact to living in any type of indoor moldy environment. Regardless of whether it is a toxic type or not, excessive indoor mold spores can make you feel "sickly."
"Katrina Cough" is the name given by patients and doctors to the persistent cough and mold allergy symptoms caused by suspected house mold or toxic black mold and mildew, or other dusty household mold, after Hurricane Katrina flooded their homes and work places.
"Katrina cough" is not caused by any bacterial or viral infection, but rather seems to be the result of the persistent and powerful irritants found in the dusty, moldy buildings left behind by Hurricane Katrina or any major flooding event.

Once you have found a source of toxic black mold, you don't need more than one test to check it out or identify it - just safely clean it up and dry the area out. See our Mold Clean Up Guide for more information. All molds, including toxic mold, are cleaned up the same way with multiple applications of inexpensive sanitizers and detergents, and drying up the moisture condition.

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Mold Identification/Laboratory Testing
We have determined from reviewing the scientific literature and professional experience of the air testing industry, that very few "toxic" Stachybotrys mold spores become airborne since they are usually wet and sticky. Therefore we only offer the surface swab lab testing.