The Texas Mold Assessment and Remediation Rules split mold work into two licensed roles that must stay separate on a project: a Mold Assessment Consultant writes the protocol and runs clearance, and a Mold Remediation Contractor performs the work. The trigger is 25 contiguous square feet of growth, with TDLR notified at least 5 days before a licensed project begins.
Two consequences a homeowner feels. You may remediate your own single-family home without a license, but you may not hire an unlicensed contractor to do it. And a passed clearance produces a Certificate of Mold Remediation, which Texas buyers and insurers ask about at resale.
Source: Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR), Texas Mold Assessment and Remediation Rules. Checked 2026-08-14.
Ask for the licence number and check it against the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) register before work starts. In Texas a licence number you cannot look up on the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) register is not a licence. Ask separately who will issue clearance at the end, because in Texas that should not be the same firm doing the removal.
A licensed job costs more than an unlicensed one, and in Texas 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 Texas.
Drying itself is priced the same in Texas as anywhere else; the published national ranges are on the pricing page.
Texas licenses mold work once growth reaches 25 contiguous square feet, and the consultant who writes the protocol may not be the contractor who does the work.
Ask for the licence number and check it against the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) register before work starts. In Texas a licence number you cannot look up on the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) register is not a licence. Ask separately who will issue clearance at the end, because in Texas that should not be the same firm doing the removal.
Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR), under the Texas Mold Assessment and Remediation Rules. Position checked 2026-08-14. Texas can change its rules, so confirm current requirements with Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) before relying on this for a decision.
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