How we verify a mold company
A badge is only worth something if you can state, in one sentence, what it means and where it came from. Here's ours: every “license & cert verified” mark links to the public registry it was pulled from, and shows the date we last checked. No invented seals, no stars-for-sale.
What we check
1. The Florida DBPR license file
Florida law (Ch. 468, Part XVI) requires a state license for any mold job over 10 square feet. We match each company to its license record in the Department of Business and Professional Regulation file and confirm the number, type (assessor vs. remediator), and that the status is current — not expired or revoked.
2. The IICRC certification locator
For technician credentials (AMRT, WRT, ASD), we check the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification's public locator. When a certification is listed, the profile links straight to it so you can confirm the designation yourself.
3. The ACAC registry (where applicable)
For firms carrying American Council for Accredited Certification mold credentials — chiefly CMRS (Council-certified Microbial Remediation Supervisor) and CRMI (Council-certified Residential Mold Inspector) — we confirm against the ACAC registry. This matters most on the assessment side, where independence from the remediation crew is the whole point.
How often we re-check
Licenses lapse. A company that was licensed last year may not be today — which is exactly the kind of thing a static directory misses. We re-pull the DBPR file on a regular cadence and re-stamp each profile with the new check date. If a license has expired or been revoked since we last looked, the verified mark comes off. The date on the badge is your proof of freshness.
See the live cadence for each source on our data sources page.
What the dated badge means
“License & cert verified Jun 2026 · FL DBPR” means: on that date, we confirmed this company holds a current Florida mold license (and, where shown, an active IICRC or ACAC credential) against the official registry — and you can click through to confirm the same record. It does not mean we rate their work, vouch for their pricing, or rank them by how much they pay us. It is a factual, checkable, time-stamped credential claim — nothing more, and nothing vaguer.
What we do not do
- No pay-to-play ranking. Listing is verification-based, not paid placement. A company cannot buy its way to the top of a city page or onto a verified badge. The default sort is verification-first. If a slot is ever sponsored, it'll say “Sponsored” in plain words.
- No invented seals. We never ship a badge whose criteria we can't state in one sentence and link to a source. No “super service” awards that really track ad spend.
- No selling your number. We don't fan your request out to five companies. You pick who calls — one call goes to one company you choose.
- No quality rating dressed up as licensing. A current license is a legal fact. It is not a promise the work will be perfect — we keep those two things separate so you can, too.
Want to check a company yourself?
Look up any Florida mold license by number or company name — or see the full list of registries we pull from.