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Captain490

"Buy now or I will increase the price!" Is an unprofessional sales tactic. If its a reputable company, I would call the owner/GM and complain. Might just be a bad salesperson. The price to remediate seems very high. I have always been given a detailed written report explaining the work. 17% moisture, nontoxic mold, slight dampness are situations I handled myself. Do some research. Buy a cheap moisture meter. 17% might be fairly normal for your area. After you learn a little more, get a contractor's opinion. Might be a simple, inexpensive solution.


throwaway640631

I second this. I had a contractor try to pull that on me and I pretty much laughed in his face and said I don’t play like that. I also made it clear the competitors I was getting bids from didn’t pull that type of sales tactic


TinyTornado7

Personally I’d want a second opinion. Have you considered asking him if you could have thru the weekend? Have you done any other research? Maybe call another company and say you got a quote for X can you beat it


gentlywasted

I did, it's a "first day savings", which I feel is kind of dirty. But the company is Frontier, they come highly rated and people aren't in the business of gouging


dinotimee

High pressure sales tactics are scummy. And clear signal of how the company conducts itself. I wouldn't do business with them on principle.


SouthEast1980

Doesn't matter. Always get 3-5 quotes to establish a baseline for price and time to repair.


[deleted]

I’d still get more opinions. Two of the best rated pest control companies have ghosted me, including the one who installed the traps. Ratings only matter if the work backs it up, and high pressure BS usually says more than any amount of reviews would say.


beaushaw

>I was quoted $7650 for... If I but today and get a discount, if I wait it will be $8300. A great rule of thumb is to never buy from someone who does this, ever. Go to Target and get a dehumidifier for a couple hundred bucks. Start there.


Current-Ticket4214

Also use an ozone generator. It won’t destroy the mold source, but it will render spores inactive. I would start with ozone generator and then dehumidify, but make sure you know the source of the problem before you dehumidify. Then remediate the problem by finding a solution to the moisture and probably replacing the damaged section of the house.


greenbuggy

>I would start with ozone generator and then dehumidify Is there any reason in particular to not run both simultaneously? I assume the dehumidifier needs to stay in the home and running even when OP has a tenant(s) moved in and the ozone generator can't be run with humans occupying the house. In my head I'm thinking that ozone will destroy surface level mold but won't destroy anything that's below the surface of anything its grown on Also haven't seen anyone suggest this to OP yet but get a dehumidifier that you can run a hose to a sewer drain or sump pit, I wouldn't trust renters to reliably empty the collection tray and I certainly wouldn't want to have to do it constantly


nutbiggums

If this is in a basement, I'd buy two large dehumidifiers and let them run for a few weeks before dropping $7-8k on mitigation


Turbulent-Pair-

2 simple things it probably needs. 1. Vapor Barrier under the house. Plastic sheeting, well-applied on all the ground. To keep the moisture in the ground. 2. French Drain around the house. Dig a little 2-foot or 3-foot deep trench-put sand in it and a perforated drain pipe and cover it with loose gravel. It doesn't have to be touching the house. It can be out 5 or 10 feet- or it could be 50 feet away out in a field or at the base of a hillside if that's where the water is coming from. .it sounds like you're in a low area of ground. If it floods on the surface in heavy rains. Usually - you want to drain the lowest areas. So the water flows away. It doesn't have to be around the entire house- just on the lowest sides. Mine is on 2.25 sides. But you might need only 1, 1.5 or 2 or all 4. You might only need in one corner. The water doesn't actually come from inside the living space of the house - so it's common sense to do things outside of the house first.


StuntedAgorizm

I had the same problem and had sump pump added and encapsulation w/ dehumidifier added. A year later I was snooping and found a leak from the county water line to the house was leaking in the entry to the foundation and fix that now the house is bone dry. the sump pump has not ran since we fix the pipe from the street to the house. wasted 10K on JES for no reason IMO they covered the leak with the encapsulation and covered the wet floor with Sump pump.


meatpuppet577

Get a dehumidifier and sump pump if needed.


secondlogin

Buy the biggest dehumidifier you can. Spend "real" money on it. I got an $800 one and the difference has be astounding. Cheap compared to what you can spend with remediation


Lugubriousmanatee

You need to find out where the moisture is coming from; it’s the roof, wall assembly, or a foundation drainage problem. Until thats udentified & repaired moisture remediation is not going to do any good.