Suffer from allergies or asthma in your home or office?

Our clients are ready to improve their indoor environments and need to know what allergens are present and where to begin mitigation. Whether you're allergic to pollens and molds, or dust mites and formaldehyde, the first step in reducing your symptoms is learning what to target.

Challenge

The sniffling, scratching, sneezing and wheezing symptoms of allergies can be irritating at best, and debilitating at worst. It is frustrating not knowing what triggers your allergy symptoms and feeling out of control.

Solution

HBI can test the air and dust in your building and tell you what microscopic allergens are present. Armed with this evidence you can begin making mitigation measures based on the suggestions in our user-friendly reports to take back your indoor environment and limit or prevent allergic symptoms.

Success Story

A father and son in Petaluma, CA, had asthma and they both suffered disproportionately in their rental home. HBI found mold growing in the Master Bedroom, a Laundry Room filled with fragrant detergents, and two dirty, cat-hair-covered air filters crumpled up and stuffed into the central air return duct. Addressing these findings cost nearly nothing, and the son and husband almost immediately had fewer symptoms in the home.

HBI inspectors are trained to look for allergens in every nook and cranny of a building. Whether it’s mold spores from your crawlspace, dust mites in your carpet, or pollens on your windowsills, we can find it. Once allergens are detected and identified, we make practical recommendations unique to your home. We do not wear cologne or use fragrant soaps or deodorants that might affect those with allergies.

My grandfather studied medicine in San Francisco, and was an allergist for many years in Stockton, California. When other people got sick, our family got allergies. Later in my own life I learned detection and sample collection methods to accurately identify allergens in buildings. Most of what I know about allergen sampling came from a 400-hour course through the Institute for Building Biology and Ecology. We use only the best equipment and labs for our inspections. 

These websites offer free educational materials about allergies and asthma: