Bacterial Growth

You will never see the word "Mould" indicated on my inspection reports unless it can be inconclusively determined that there is a mould issue, as particularly insurance and mortgage companies can become quite concerned about this matter let alone the stresses created for homeowners and possible purchasors. ( I do have a swabbing method of checking this which is outside of my normal inspection scope ) Note there are thousands of types of mould not all are a health concern in themselves and colour is not a true indicator of the type of growth as this is somewhat dependant upon the food available for it.

What is true is that if there is a growth then there is a moisture issue of some type existing which needs greater investigation, efflorescence can be confused with bacterial growth so great care should be exercised when making comment in this type of situation