Environmental Testing
Know what to test. Know who to trust. Understand your results. Take the right next step.
Environmental Testing Support
Concerned About Mold, VOCs, Soil Contamination—or Something in Your Environment—but Unsure What to Test?
Are you noticing a musty odor after a leak, but cannot see where mold may be hiding?
Did headaches, irritation, or an unexplained chemical smell begin after moving, remodeling, painting, or installing new flooring or cabinetry?
Are you buying a property near a farm, golf course, gas station, freeway, landfill, or former industrial site and wondering what could be in the soil, water, or air?
Have you already received laboratory results but still do not understand what they mean—or what to do next?
You do not need to figure this out alone. You also do not need to know which test to order before contacting Michelle.
The Environmental Testing Concierge helps you identify the right questions, choose appropriate testing, connect with credible laboratories and qualified local professionals, understand the findings, and create a practical plan for what comes next.
Know what to test. Know who to trust. Understand your results. Take the right next step.
Book a call below and I can help you craft a plan to test one or more environmental concerns.
The Problem Is Not a Lack of Tests. It is Knowing Which Test Is Right.
Environmental testing can quickly become confusing and expensive. A general internet search may lead to conflicting advice. Laboratories offer many different panels. Inspectors and contractors may focus only on their own specialty. A standard property inspection may not address mold sampling, VOCs, pesticides, contaminated soil, water quality, or surrounding environmental exposures.
Clients often come to Michelle after they have:
Spent money on a test that did not answer the real question
Received a technical report with little explanation
Been given conflicting recommendations by inspectors, laboratories, and contractors
Been told that everything looks fine even though odors, moisture, or other concerns remain
Felt pressured to begin costly remediation without a clear testing strategy
Become overwhelmed trying to coordinate multiple specialists on their own
Worried that they may overlook something important before buying a property
I support you by giving you one informed, step-by-step process.
Trusted, Expert Support
Michelle is a building science expert, integrative health practitioner, and wellness designer versed in building biology, biophilic design, healthy lighting, and the relationship between the built environment and human well-being.
She has completed hundreds of on-site building assessments and environmental testing projects. Through years of field experience, Michelle has learned where problems commonly hide, which warning signs deserve closer investigation, and how a property's materials, systems, history, location, and surrounding environment may affect the people living there.
Michelle has also worked extensively with leading environmental laboratories and testing specialists across the country. She understands not only how to test, but what to test for based on the property and the concern. She now brings that experience to clients virtually, collaborating with independent laboratories and qualified local professionals when on-site sampling, measurement, inspection, or remediation is required.
When symptoms or health concerns arise, Michelle can help clients consider whether conditions within the property warrant environmental investigation. Her work complements—but does not replace—medical evaluation or diagnosis by a qualified healthcare provider.
Available Environmental Testing
Michelle works with accredited, independent third-party laboratories and qualified environmental professionals across the country to help clients identify appropriate testing, understand their results, and determine practical next steps.
Indoor and outdoor air quality: VOCs and fine particulates originating from building materials, freeways, airports, ports, factories, rail corridors, construction activity, and wildfire smoke. Smoke tests and air monitoring available.
Mold and moisture: Mold spores, microbial VOCs (mVOCs), mycotoxins, hidden moisture, humidity, and water intrusion.
Soil and land contamination: Heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, petroleum products, industrial chemicals, contaminated fill, and residues from previous land uses.
Water quality: Municipal or well water, including contaminants associated with the water source, treatment system, household plumbing, pipes, and fixtures.
Radon: air testing, water and soil available. It’s the 2nd leading cause of lung cancer.
Legacy building and site hazards: Lead, asbestos, radon, soil gases, vapor intrusion, and other concerns associated with older buildings or previous property uses.
Electric, magnetic and radio frequency exposure: Cell towers, radio and broadcast towers, antennas, smart meters, dirty electricity, wireless systems, power lines, electrical substations, transformers, and high-voltage transmission towers.
Drug residues and hazardous gases: Potential contamination associated with smoking, vaping, methamphetamine or other drug activity, combustion gases, sewer gas, fuel vapors, and other property-specific concerns.
Lighting and environmental wellness: Daylight, glare, flicker, nighttime light exposure, noise, nature connection, and other sensory conditions that may affect comfort and well-being.
Additional property-specific concerns: Testing recommendations are customized to the building, its location and history, surrounding land uses, and the client’s concerns.
Not every potential source means a property is unsafe. The purpose is to determine which concerns are relevant, identify which may warrant testing, and replace uncertainty with useful information.
How the Process Works
1. Start With the Concern
Tell Michelle what you are noticing, what has changed, or
what you want to understand. You do not need to arrive knowing
the technical name of a test.
2. Review the Property
Michelle considers the building, photographs, relevant reports, property
history, location, surrounding land uses, and potential exposure sources.
3. Create the Testing Path
You receive guidance on what may warrant testing, which method may be appropriate, and what type of laboratory or qualified local professional to use.
4. Understand the Results
Michelle reviews the findings with you in clear language, helps identify the priorities and limitations, and creates practical next steps for further investigation, exposure reduction, or remediation.