Testing conditions
Two mold tests are included. Here is exactly when.
Every incident on an enrolled unit comes with up to two accredited lab samples. A sample is a diagnostic tool, not a formality, so it has to answer a question the walkthrough cannot. These are the conditions, the situations that meet them, and what testing costs when it falls outside your membership.
Four conditions, all of them required.
A sample has one job: answering a question the walkthrough cannot. When all four of these are true, up to two samples per incident are included at no cost.
An open incident on an enrolled unit
The unit is covered by an active membership and the problem came in as a service call. Testing ordered on its own, outside an incident, is not covered.
Growth is visible
The assessor confirms mold or suspected growth on the walkthrough, on camera or on site. A smell, a stain, or a resident's worry on its own does not qualify.
The result changes the scope
The affected area is over 10 square feet, the origin cannot be pinned down from the walkthrough, or growth sits behind a surface that has to come open.
The assessor recommends it and Sporyte approves it
Sampling is ordered by the licensed assessor on the call and approved by Sporyte before the sample is pulled, so a test never shows up on your bill unannounced.
Two samples per incident — one surface and one air sample — are included when the four conditions are met. Samples beyond the first two are $50 each, paid directly to Sporyte.
What those conditions look like in a real unit.
Included
Roof leak, spreading ceiling stain
A tenant reports a stain that keeps growing. The assessor finds 25 square feet of discolored drywall under a roof leak and cannot tell water staining from growth. Two samples included: one surface, one air.
Slow supply-line leak behind a baseboard
A musty bedroom after a pinhole leak. The baseboard comes off and growth is visible in the wall cavity, with the origin unclear from the walkthrough. Two samples included.
A/C condensate overflow into drywall and carpet
Water soaked past the 10 square foot line and the pad has to come out. Sampling confirms whether the cavity is colonized before the remediation scope is written. Two samples included.
Not included
A musty smell with nothing visible
No growth on the walkthrough means no diagnostic question. Testing is still available at member pricing.
A clear cause and a clear extent
The leak is found, the drywall is wet, the scope is obvious. There is nothing a lab result would change.
Re-testing after the work is done
Post-remediation verification is its own included service, separate from the two diagnostic samples.
A second opinion on another firm's report
Testing outside a Sporyte incident is network work at member pricing, not a covered sample.
No test needed
When the walkthrough says testing isn't necessary.
If the assessor can see the cause, the extent, and what has to come out, no lab work is ordered and nothing is added to your bill. If you still want testing done — a documentation requirement, a second opinion, a suspicion you want on the record — the Sporyte network does it at member pricing.
In-person inspection
$199
50% off the $399 network rate
A licensed assessor comes to the unit, documents the condition on site, and writes the findings and protocol from what was found.
Lab sample
$49.99 each
50% off the $100 network rate
Accredited analysis taken during that visit, with the results returned to your portal and filed with the service call.
The assessor takes the samples during the visit and submits the invoice from the field straight to your portal: $199 for the visit plus $49.99 for each sample taken. Nothing is charged without an invoice you can open.
Member testing pricing is $199 per in-person inspection and $49.99 per sample, taken from the $399 and $100 network rates. Terms and conditions apply.