Get a Free Mold Quote

Tell us what you are seeing, where it is, and how long it has been there. We read every request and reply by phone or email, usually within a business day — and if you have not heard back by then, call the number below rather than waiting.

Call us at (717) 670-3330, or use the form below.

What to put in your message

The more you can tell us, the more useful the first conversation is. None of it is required, and "there is a smell in the basement and I do not know why" is a perfectly good start:

Which town, and which room or space. If you are in Littlestown, New Oxford, Biglerville or McSherrystown, the form on your town's page arrives with the town already filled in; here, just name it.
Whether the area is finished or bare. A bare stone cellar wall and a finished basement with drywall and carpet are different jobs at different prices, and it is the single biggest thing that moves a quote.
Roughly how much you can see, if anything. The EPA's rough dividing line is about 10 square feet, a patch around three feet by three feet.
Whether there has been a flood, a leak, or a long-standing damp smell, and roughly when it started. Something wet since Friday and something musty since last summer lead to different work.
Whether the house is being bought or sold, and any deadline you are working to. Transactions have contingency dates and those change the order things need to happen in.
Whether anyone in the house has asthma, allergies, or a lung condition. The CDC says people with allergies, immune suppression, underlying lung disease, or chronic respiratory diseases like asthma or COPD should not take part in cleaning up mold, and it changes what we would suggest you do in the meantime.

If you are not sure what you need, say so and start with an inspection.

If water is coming in right now

Do the drying before you do anything else, because the clock is short. The EPA's guidance is that if wet or damp materials or areas are dried 24 to 48 hours after a leak or spill happens, in most cases mold will not grow. Inside that window the problem is water; outside it, the problem is mold, and the job gets considerably larger. So stop the source if you safely can, get the standing water out, move what you can off the wet floor, and run fans and a dehumidifier. Then send the form — it is worth telling us that the area got wet even if nothing has grown yet, because the right advice at that point may be that you do not need us at all.

What happens after you send it

We read every request that comes in, including the ones that turn out not to need any work. If the message suggests the problem is small enough to handle yourself, we will say so. Otherwise we follow up to arrange a look at the property, because nobody can price mold work honestly from a description alone — and a firm number quoted over the phone by someone who has not seen the cellar is a warning sign rather than a convenience.

Before you sign anything with anyone, it is worth knowing what Pennsylvania law already entitles you to: no payment may be demanded before a home improvement contract is signed, the contract is not enforceable against you unless it carries the terms the statute lists, and you have three business days to cancel after signing. Our home page sets that out in full, and the cost page explains what an itemised quote should contain.

Where we work

Gettysburg and Adams County: the borough itself, Littlestown, New Oxford, Biglerville, McSherrystown, and the townships between them. The service areas page lists the rest. Two limits worth stating plainly: Hanover is in York County rather than Adams and belongs with a York County service, and this is residential work — houses, townhomes and small rental properties, not commercial buildings.

Frequently asked questions

How quickly should I act on mold I have just found?

If the area is still wet, immediately: the EPA's guidance is that if wet or damp materials are dried 24 to 48 hours after a leak or spill, in most cases mold will not grow, so drying inside that window can prevent the problem entirely. If the growth is already established and the area is dry, a day or two spent getting the right information is better than a rushed decision, though it is not something to leave for a season, because the longer materials stay damp the further growth reaches into them.

Do I need to be home for someone to look at the property?

For the parts that matter, yes. A useful assessment involves moisture readings on the actual materials, a look at the basement or crawl space, and a conversation about what has happened in the house and when, which is hard to do without you there. If the space is a crawl space or an attic, access needs to be available. Tell us in your message if access is awkward or if there is a tenant to coordinate with, since that changes the scheduling more than anything else.

What does it cost to ask?

Nothing, and there is no obligation. Sending the form or calling costs you nothing, and if the answer is that the problem is small enough to handle yourself under the EPA's roughly 10 square foot guideline, that is what you will be told. What comes later has a price: Angi and HomeAdvisor, the two national cost guides we use, put a mold inspection at $303 to $1,045 with an average of $671, and remediation at $1,223 to $3,757 for a typical project. Those are national figures, not Pennsylvania ones, and our cost page explains what moves them.

Request a free mold quote

Tell us about the house and what you have seen or smelled. We read every request and follow up to arrange a look at the property. No obligation.

Prefer to talk? Call (717) 670-3330. We read every request either way.