Why Send a Dog After Mold?

A trained dog smells mold odor at levels a person can't.

The dog finds the spot

Mold gives off odor as it grows, and a trained dog can smell that odor through drywall, under flooring, and around ductwork. You know the house smells musty. The dog shows you which wall the odor is coming from.

Sweep first, test second

Mold testing by a licensed assessor costs serious money. If you run the dog sweep first, the assessor can test the exact spots the dog alerted on instead of searching the entire house at your expense.

Nothing gets cut open

The old way to chase a musty smell is to cut drywall and pull cabinets until somebody finds the problem. The dog smells the odor through the wall, so if a repair crew opens anything later, they open the right spot and only that spot.

How a Mold Detection Dog Sweep Works

Four steps from the first musty smell to a written answer.

1

Tell us what's going on

Musty smell, allergy flare-ups, a past leak, a house you're about to buy. Send the form and we'll set a time.

2

The dog sweeps the home

Room by room, baseboards to vents. Where the dog picks up mold odor, it gives a trained alert at the spot.

3

Every alert gets written down

The handler records each alert spot during the sweep. You can walk along and watch.

4

You get the summary

You get a written summary of every spot where the dog alerted, plus our plain advice on next steps. What you do next is your call.

Mold Detection Dog Services in Florida

We offer three services, and every one of them starts with a sweep.

Home & Business Sweeps

This is the core service. The dog works the property room by room and alerts where mold odor may be present, including wall cavities, the space under floors, and duct runs that a visual check can't reach.

Request a Sweep

Pre-Purchase Sweeps

A standard home inspection is visual, and hidden mold doesn't show up in a visual inspection. Run the sweep before you close so you know about any mold odor in the house before you own the house.

Sweep Before You Buy

Post-Remediation Re-Sweeps

If you already paid for mold remediation, bring the dog back after the work is done. If the dog walks past the spots it used to alert on, that tells you something useful about the repair before the containment comes down.

Book a Re-Sweep

Landlord or property manager? There is a page for how sweeps handle tenant complaints.

Who Calls Mold Dawgs?

Homeowners with a smell nobody can find. The house smells musty, the handyman shrugged, and nobody wants to start cutting drywall on guesses. That is the core job: one sweep, every room, and a written list of where the mold odor is. Here is how the visit works.

Buyers with a house under contract. The home inspection is visual, the disclosure form only says what the sellers know, and the inspection period is ticking. A pre-purchase sweep fits inside the window and puts alert locations in your hands while you can still negotiate.

Landlords and property managers with a complaint. A tenant says the unit smells moldy, you see nothing, and the argument is going nowhere. The sweep turns the complaint into facts: written alert locations or a documented clean result from a neutral party.

Anyone who just paid for mold remediation. The invoice says fixed. The re-sweep tells you whether the dog still stops where it used to, before the containment comes down and the furniture goes back.

Serving All of Florida

We're based in Orlando and we drive to every part of the state.

Orlando · Tampa · St. Petersburg · Jacksonville · Miami · Fort Lauderdale · West Palm Beach · Sarasota · Fort Myers · Cape Coral · Naples · Melbourne · Daytona Beach · Port St. Lucie · Lakeland · Ocala · Gainesville · Tallahassee · The Villages

All service areas →

Think You Smell Mold? Find Out Where.

Tell us what you're smelling and where. We'll bring the dog and find the spot the odor is coming from.