Mold remediation appears in the Tennessee contractor licence as an Specialty/Environmental classification, S-F. Environmental specialty classifications do not require a trade exam, only the Business and Law exam, but the applicant must submit the designated qualifying agent's training certificates and resume covering the environmental work.
That is a meaningful difference from an unregulated state: there is a named classification on a state-issued licence you can ask to see, and the qualifying agent's training was reviewed to get it. Ask which classification the licence carries, because a general contractor licence without S-F is not the same thing.
Source: Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, Specialty/Environmental classification S-F (Mold Remediation). Checked 2026-08-15.
Ask for the licence number and check it against the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors register before work starts. In Tennessee a licence number you cannot look up on the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors register is not a licence. Ask separately who will issue clearance at the end, because in Tennessee that should not be the same firm doing the removal.
A licensed job costs more than an unlicensed one, and in Tennessee that is the point rather than the problem: the premium buys a protocol, a separate assessor and a clearance document. The drying work underneath it is still priced at national rates in Tennessee.
Drying itself is priced the same in Tennessee as anywhere else; the published national ranges are on the pricing page.
Metro guides for Tennessee publish once three local facts can be sourced for a city: named operators, local flood risk and the county permit office. Until then the Tennessee position above is the state-level answer, and the national guides below cover cost and process.
Tennessee carries mold remediation as a specialty environmental classification inside the state contractor licence.
Ask for the licence number and check it against the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors register before work starts. In Tennessee a licence number you cannot look up on the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors register is not a licence. Ask separately who will issue clearance at the end, because in Tennessee that should not be the same firm doing the removal.
Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, under the Specialty/Environmental classification S-F (Mold Remediation). Position checked 2026-08-15. Tennessee can change its rules, so confirm current requirements with Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors before relying on this for a decision.
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