1-Room Mold Test Kit (Air & Surface)

My wife and I recently purchased a home and wanted to make sure there wasn’t any mold in the home, especially because she is pregnant. We researched several DIY mold test kits and decided that My Mold Detective was the best product for our needs. We liked the My Mold Detective mold test kit because it is the same method that professionals use when they test your home but it is a fraction of the cost. You get to keep the product and you can test your home seasonally. Of course, you have to pay the fee for the lab analysis but it is totally worth the peace of mind that comes with knowing whether or not your home has mold. The report that you receive explaining your results is easy to understand and the customer support is great should you have any questions or want to know what your next steps are. We found the process to be simple and would definitely recommend this product!

Have no idea if the product is any good as it is impossible to register for sending to the lab for testing. Wasted my money on this. The website is finally working, but the organization of the website is so poor, you can’t see a full page of information, if you miss something and try to go back to add it, it kicks you out. I tried to go back in and it now tells my that the log in name is taken. It keeps prompting to enter the Home Depot Code. I DID NOT purchase at Home Depot, so would not be eligible for it, but after the third prompt I ENTERED THE CODE ON THE PICTURE, AND AM TOLD IT IS INVALID. Do you have insane people programming your website? Was this website designed to driver customers to another provider. If you don’t have enough funding to have a functioning website, how can you compete? I REALLY, TRULY WANTED INDPENDENT LAB TESTING OF THE AIR QUALITY AND THE SETTLED DUST IN MY SON’S HOUSE. He is immune compromised and this is very important to me. To keep hitting these hard stops is just infuriating. I can’t imagine if the user was brain fogged from mold toxicity having any chance of making it through the convoluted, poorly thought out and just flat “programmed wrong” website. BTW, I use computers every single day for my work and have a programmer who is constantly improving my online data collection and our personally designed software application, so I am not ignorant of how this works. This has been done by some India sweatshop, or worse yet, your bother in law. It is a hot mess and I AM SO DONE WITH THIS COMPANY.

This costs $74 for kit plus $127 in lab fees, so $201 total as of Mar 2026. Kit was easy to use, I’m waiting on lab report.

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Before we got this there were many complaints about not knowing about the fees. If you look on their site, it does list the fees on there. At the time of writing this review, I did not look at their listing on Amazon and not sure if it lists it on Amazon. I want to say it gave it a range. For us, to buy this and get the samples done and then to rush it it was roughly $250. The thing that we thought was odd, was it came up with a mold that is only found outside and we thought it was a bogus reading. The company who tests it is not in Utah and I have no idea if they would be familiar with this. Our previous house, that had this done in the crawl space, with cement floor and walls and was 4 feet tall, not to mention air vents to go outside where cut grass piles were at, would not know this. The test results also didn't give much info and nothing about the info of the type of mold. We ended up having to pay another $250 to have someone in Utah come and do the mold test. When he came out, he did say he didn't see anything that would be bad. When he got the test results to us, he did find the same mold, but it was in small amounts that is within normal range for a crawlspace in Utah. He was able to get us a letter to give to the buyers with this information. The company who does this kit, they couldn't do any such thing because their information just shows the amount of mold and recommends to get it remedied. With them not being in this state and not being able to do a letter or even knowing the numbers that came out were within normal range for Utah, it was a waste. We tried to get our money back and I even offered to send them the letter from the Mold guy that came out to do the test after getting the results with this kit. I would recommend to just hire someone who is familiar with the area and know what the levels should be like.

Registering online and paying the extra $88 for lab testing for one room to compare with outside was tricky and took nearly 30". Then there was much confusion because the instructions pamphlet said to remove plastic flaps over the mold gathering area of the cassettes and put them back on once the collection was made. There were no plastic flaps. Nor were there any updated instructions online. It was only after I went through the whole box three times again that I found a small slip of paper saying "We apologize for the confusion. The manufacturer of the cassettes changed from paper flaps to plastic caps. Based upon overwhelming complaints about the difficulty of removing the plastic caps from the cassettes, our fulfillment team started removing the plastic caps and sealing the cassettes in the plastic sleeves. We've preemptively run a few checks by leaving un-capped cassettes open to determine if the efficacy of the cassettes would be affected and there was not a concern. The particulates in the air need to pass through the cassettes at a particular flowrate to become impacted in a gel agar on the inside of the cassettes. This does not take place unless the cassettes are utilized in conjunction with an air pump. This means you will skip the steps in the instructions regarding paper flaps and proceed with the rest of the instructions." Despite the explanation, I felt the solution was a lowering of test collection standards, as by then they'd been out of their plastic sleeves for over an hour with 2 different sets of hands on the cassettes in 4 different rooms trying to figure out how they worked. Then I tried to go ahead with the testing and the pump failed...pushing the "on" button got only a buzz and it wouldn't stay on. Since it was a Sunday, the business was closed and I couldn't reach anyone even though it was critical for me to take the test that day while mold counts were still high in my area and before the next day's anticipated rain. If I get a pump replacement quickly and get good lab results, I will update this review and possibly boost my rating, but for now, I'm very, very, very disappointed.

I bought this to test a vehicle that had a leak which resulted in internal standing water for a couple weeks. Strong mildew smell. I was looking for a kit that could tell mold levels, so I would know if my cleaning efforts were being successfully. Unfortunately, I was expecting at least some kind of immediate results from the test unit. Reading the Amazon product page indicated a detailed report, which I wasn't interested in, when sending samples to the lab. It wasn't clear that you get no results at all unless you send it to the lab. Maybe I read into the product a bit more than I should have because other mold test kits provide some immediate results, I was expecting the same here. Shame on me, but the listing could be a bit more clear on what to expect.

This mold testing kit really works. I helped me to test multiple rooms inside my home including my sons room Brian who was suffering from allergies and musty smells coming from his room. My Mold Detective tests the air quality for how much mold is in the air you breath. There is an additional fee for when you register the samples online and prior to mailing them to the Laboratory, but that seems to be the case for any mold test kit. This is the only one that test the air for elevated mold like a professional would. I would definitely recommend this product, and the lab report is super easy to read and provided me with next steps.

I honestly can't say how good this product is on some fronts. The air pump seems powerful and that set was complete, so no real problems with the vendor, however instructions require you to ship the samples to the US for analysis, which you also shoulder the burden on. I've waited two weeks now since they confirm the samples received with no results as of yet. At this point it really feels like money wasted. I am hoping I'm wrong, but it seems unlikely at this point.