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Methodology and data sources

Mold Record is an independent reference built on public records and published agency guidance. It is not an inspection or a medical resource, and nothing here states that a specific home is safe or unsafe. This page documents where every figure on the site comes from: the datasets, how they are refreshed, and the known holes in each source.

License data: TDLR bulk files

Every license record on this site comes from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation's public bulk files for the mold program — seven CSV files, one per license category, published at tdlr.texas.gov. They are re-downloaded at every site build, and every page that renders license data carries the date of the files it was built from (currently 2026-08-31). We republish the records as-is: no company paid to appear, and no record is edited beyond formatting.

  • Company categories (Mold Remediation Company, Mold Assessment Company, Mold Analysis Laboratory) carry address, county and phone in the state's file — these are the categories we list in full on the register pages.
  • Individual categories (consultants, technicians, contractors, workers) carry only state and county — they appear in the lookup but are never listed with addresses, because none exist in the source.
  • Statuses: we show CURRENT and EXPIRED exactly as the state records them. Counts as of 2026-08-31: Mold Assessment Company 204 · Mold Assessment Consultant 923 · Mold Assessment Technician 243 · Mold Remediation Company 464 · Mold Remediation Contractor 809 · Mold Remediation Worker 4099 · Mold Analysis Laboratory 63.
  • Known limits: the bulk files carry no disciplinary history, and their refresh cadence is the state's, not ours. Between our builds, TDLR's own search is the authoritative real-time source, and we link it wherever a decision might hang on a record.

Cleanup guidance: EPA and CDC, quoted

Everything this site says about when professional remediation is needed, when sampling is worth paying for, and what “black mold” does and doesn't mean comes from EPA and CDC published guidance. The rule we hold ourselves to: quote, link, and stop — the agency text is rendered close to verbatim with a link to the live page, and we do not extend it into claims the agencies don't make. This site contains no health or symptom-diagnosis content beyond what those agencies state.

Texas law

Statements about the assessor/remediator separation and licensing requirements cite the Texas Occupations Code and TDLR's administrative rules, with the section number linked at the point of use. Where we could not verify a provision on the live statute text, we don't state it.

Cost figures

Every price range on this site is quoted from a named, dated, published source — national cost guides, linked at the point of use. No “average” is ever invented, ranges are always tied to a named scope (a patch, a room, an attic, a whole house), and where published sources disagree we show the disagreement rather than blending it away.

Other states

Mold licensing exists in a handful of states beyond Texas (Florida, New York and Louisiana among them). We have verified bulk data only for Texas; for other licensing states we link the official state lookup rather than embedding records we can't vouch for. A state's absence from this site says nothing about whether licensing applies there.

Search and demand data

Page types and their order come from a 700-keyword research corpus pulled 2026-08-31 (Google Ads volume and bids). The biggest head term in the vertical is deliberately not the first thing built; the do-I-need-this, cost, inspection and license questions a homeowner asks while holding a quote are.

How this site makes money

This site may be compensated when homeowners who ask to be contacted are referred to a service provider. Referrals happen only with your consent.