Mold Remediation & Removal in Dallas, TX

Those are national figures. We publish no prices for Dallas: no sourced data supports them, and a number invented for a city is worse than no number. The full comparison is on mold removal cost and inspection and testing cost; the number for your house comes from the provider after they have seen it.

If you rent in Texas, the first thing to know is that mold is not named in the statute. A landlord’s repair duty covers conditions that materially affect the physical health or safety of an ordinary tenant, and the examples the law spells out are raw sewage, flooding, broken heating or cooling, and lack of potable water. Mold has to be shown to meet that standard rather than simply being pointed at.

The practical route is an inspector. A local building or health official confirming the condition is one of the ways the law recognises, and it turns an argument into a document. Before any of the tenant remedies apply you also have to be current on rent, give the landlord proper notice, and allow a reasonable time for the repair.

Source: Texas State Law Library — Landlord/Tenant Law: Failure to Repair · retrieved 2026-10-15

What the city will and will not do in Dallas

Dallas is the clearest of the four, because the city writes its own limit down. Code Compliance publishes the list of violations the Dallas City Code lets it enforce — water leaks, weather and water tightness, inoperable A/C, inoperable heating, improper sewage discharge — and separately lists what it has no jurisdiction over. Mold is on that second list.

That is workable if you report the right thing. A 3-1-1 request about the leak, the failed weather stripping or the A/C that has not run for a month is inside the code; the same request about mold is outside it. Dallas also publishes multi-tenant inspection scores by year, which is a document worth reading before you sign a lease.

Source: City of Dallas Code Compliance — Multi-Tenant Inspection Program (Sec. 27-11 of the Dallas City Code) · retrieved 2026-10-15

Texas is one of the few states that licenses this work directly. TDLR requires a licence for mold-related activities, with an exemption for projects smaller than 25 contiguous square feet, and it does not allow one company to carry out both the assessment and the remediation on the same project. Asking for a licence number here is not awkward, it is how the system is meant to work.

Source: TDLR — Mold Assessors and Remediators at a Glance · retrieved 2026-10-14

Dallas records 37.57 inches of rain a year across 52 days, with an average temperature of 67.2°F. By the numbers it sits in the middle of our twelve: wetter than Denver by a wide margin, drier than the Gulf Coast, and warm enough that materials hold moisture well after the rain stops.

In a metro this size the useful question is usually the age and type of the building rather than the city average. A fifty-year-old structure and a new build in the same postcode fail in different places and on different timescales.

Where to look first here: wherever the building has been altered. Additions, converted garages and re-roofed sections are where assemblies meet badly, and that is where water gets in regardless of the annual average.

Almost exactly half the housing predates 1980, which is the practical reason two houses in the same postcode fail differently: one has had forty-five years of plumbing and roof history, the other has had five.