Our team provides a full range of mould testing, air quality testing and mould inspection services across the Brisbane and Sydney areas. Whether your concerns are around a commercial space, school, business, or home, we are ready to help you.
We also service greater Queensland and NSW for large commercial inspections.
Air quality is often one of those hard things to quantify by ourselves. If your house fills with smoke after burning something on the stove, it’s pretty easy to see the problem and fix it by opening a window or two. But most issues with air quality are much more subtle, often going unnoticed for long periods of time.
Poor quality air, like air with high levels of pollutants, carbon dioxide or contaminants like mould can have serious health effects.
Here at IECL we're highly passionate & aware about the health affects of Mould.
We'd love to address any concerns you might have!
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D7391-20 Standard test method for categorization and quantification of airborne fungal structures in an Inertial Impaction Sample by Optical Microscopy
S7658-17 Standard test method for Direct Microscopy of Fungal Structures from Tape
All of our standard mould testing is what is called non-viable testing. Non-viable testing, simply put, assesses the levels and genera (families) of mould in the environment. It does not differentiate between living and dead spores. Both our DIY Kit samples, and the samples taken by our consultants onsite, will generally be non-viable. This is for a few reasons:
Both home DIY Mould Test Kits, and the kits used by our consultants, operate on the same principle - aiming to capture mould spores for later analysis by a laboratory. They even use the same consumables - sticky surface samplers, and small air cassettes.
There is no current device on the market that can identify, quantify and analyse mould samples. There are some clever devices that can use methods such as laser particle counting to guess if the structures are likely to be mould. However, the results are not as accurate or precise as a traditional mould analysis in a lab, and reliant on the often incorrect presumption that increased particle counts are indicative of mould sporulation. As a result, sampling and lab analysis is the industry standard for mould testing. As far as we are aware, all mould laboratories in Australia conduct non-viable counting.
An alternative method as mentioned is using a DIY test kit to take an air sample on a cassette. The cassette can be taken to a lab where we can analyse it and send you the results. Please visit our DIY mould test kit page for more information.
A mould analysis laboratory report will almost always contain a table with counts of moulds found, as well as a count of total fungal structures. If there is interpretation, it is usually conducted by a hygienist or indoor environmental professional, though some laboratories (ours included) will include a degree of interpretation. This is what allows our DIY Mould Test kits to be useful to clients - interpretation of results is extremely difficult without training and experience with various genera of mould and their growth and sporulation patterns.
Detecting mould in walls is often difficult for homeowners and tenants. There are a couple of tricks for sampling wall cavities to check if these have mould growths inside.
If you’d like to conduct your own wall sampling, or are thinking about sampling your walls for mould, consider giving us a call! We’re always happy to help where we can, and can help clarify the positives and negatives of each testing alternative.