How this site works
What this site is, and who pays for it
Worth reading before the rest, because the commercial arrangement behind a site like this one should change how skeptically you read its advice.
The arrangement
We are not the crew
Ann Arbor Mold Co. is a website about mold and moisture in Ann Arbor. It is not a remediation company. Nobody here builds containment, cuts out drywall or runs a dehumidifier. What the site does is take your details and pass them to a local company that does the work, and that company pays for the introduction. You pay nothing, now or later.
Being paid by the contractor we send you to is a genuine conflict of interest and you should hold it against anything here that reads like a nudge toward expensive work.
We have tried to write the opposite site. A good deal of the length on these pages goes on explaining when you do not need something: why testing is usually unnecessary, why a dehumidifier is the wrong answer to one of the three causes of a wet basement, why full containment on a two-foot patch is an invoice, not a precaution.
The company that calls you sets its own prices, holds its own licenses and stands behind its own work. We do not price jobs, supervise them or guarantee them, and saying otherwise would be inventing a relationship that does not exist.
Deliberate omissions
Things this site does not claim
Most sites in this trade carry a set of trust signals that are easy to produce and impossible to check. Ours are missing on purpose, and it seemed better to say which and why than to leave you wondering.
- No reviews or testimonials. There is no honest way for a referral site to display reviews of work it did not do. Invented ones would be the single cheapest thing on this page to fake, which is exactly why they are absent.
- No certifications, badges or license numbers. This site holds none. The contractor who calls you may well hold IICRC or ACAC certification and, for the rebuild, a LARA license. Ask them directly and check the number instead of trusting a logo on a website.
- No staff photographs, no named author, no founding date. There is no crew to photograph and no history to recount.
- No address and no map. There is no office in Ann Arbor to put a pin in. A fabricated local address is a common trick in this industry and a bad one.
- No phone number yet. The number that will eventually appear here is a tracking line we control, not a real business's line published without their agreement. Until it is live, the form is the only route in, and it goes to a person rather than a queue.
- No emergency service claim. Nobody is watching this inbox overnight. Water damage does have a clock on it, and if yours is running, calling a remediation company directly is faster than a form.
Where the facts come from
Everything specific here is sourced
The claims on this site about Ann Arbor and about Michigan are not general industry copy with a city name dropped into it. Each one comes from a primary source and links to it, so you can check any of them without taking our word.
- The 30-month inspection cycle and the Certificate of Compliance come from the City of Ann Arbor's own rental housing pages and the Housing Code they cite.
- The bleach instruction is quoted verbatim from the city's rental housing tenant resources, and the position against routine biocide use is quoted verbatim from the Washtenaw County Health Department and from the EPA's remediation guide.
- The 10 and 100 square foot thresholds and the 48-hour drying window are the county's and the EPA's, not ours.
- The $600 licensing threshold is the residential builder exemption at MCL 339.2401(a), administered by LARA.
- Population and tenure figures are US Census Bureau QuickFacts for Ann Arbor city.
Where two sources genuinely disagree, and on this subject two of them do, the site shows both and explains the disagreement instead of picking whichever one suits a sale.
If that all sounds reasonable
Describe what you have
One request goes to one local company. Not to a bidding pool, not to a lead aggregator, and not resold afterwards. You should expect a single call.