Commercial vs. Residential Mold: Why the Approach Isn't the Same

A mold job in a single-family home and a mold job in a 40,000-square-foot office building share a name and almost nothing else. Commercial remediation means coordinating around tenants who still need to work, managing business interruption claims, satisfying property managers, and producing the kind of documentation that holds up if a future buyer's environmental consultant comes asking. The containment is bigger, the air-handling considerations are more complex, and the after-hours scheduling is its own puzzle. We break down how we scope commercial projects differently from residential ones — and why hiring a residential-only contractor for a commercial building usually ends in a re-do.