Terms

These terms cover the use of this website and the introduction service it provides. Read them before you send a request.

What this site is, and what it is not

This site takes requests from property owners, buyers, sellers and occupiers, and introduces them to local contractors for mold assessment and moisture diagnosis, mold removal and remediation, and water damage drying, across Scarsdale and the surrounding southern Westchester towns. That is the whole of what it does.

We do not carry out the work, we do not price or quote it, we do not supervise it, and we do not warrant its outcome. The contractor you are introduced to performs the work, holds the licenses and the insurance the work requires, sets their own price, and contracts with you directly.

What that means for a price

Nothing on this site is a quotation. Any figure mentioned before a contractor has seen the property is a description of what work of that kind tends to involve, not an offer. The binding number is the one the contractor puts in writing to you, and the agreement for the work is between you and them. Where this site quotes a dollar figure from a public document, such as what property owners reported to the Village of Scarsdale Engineering Department that flooding had cost them, it is reported as that document reports it. It is not a price, an estimate, a going rate or a range for anything we or any contractor would charge.

Mold work in New York, and what licensed means here

New York licenses this trade under Article 32 of the Labor Law, and the licensing is split. Section 936 provides that no licensee shall perform both mold assessment and mold remediation on the same property, and separately that no person shall own an interest in both the licensee performing the assessment and the licensee performing the remediation on the same property. Section 931 makes it unlawful to carry out mold assessment or remediation on a project, or to advertise or hold yourself out as doing so, without the license. A project means work over ten square feet undertaken for the purpose of mold remediation or abatement, and the New York State Department of Labor lists the exemptions, the first of which is a residential property owner working on their own property.

Where this site says licensed and insured, it means the New York licenses the job in question requires, together with the insurance behind them, held by the contractor who carries the work out. We are not a licensed mold assessment or mold remediation contractor, we do not assess, we do not remediate, and we do not issue clearance on anything. Ask any contractor for their license and check it with the Department of Labor, which publishes a verification tool for exactly that purpose.

Why the assessment and the removal are separate

Because the statute says so, not because we prefer it. Section 947 requires a post-remediation assessment before a project is cleared, and requires the assessment licensee to determine, among other things, that the underlying cause of the mold has been remediated so that it is reasonably certain the mold will not return. Section 930 defines mold remediation without extending it to the underlying source of the moisture, so the plumbing, drainage, grading or building work that stops the water is a different job from the mold work, with a different contractor and a different budget. Nothing on this site is a promise that any building can be made permanently immune to mold, and any company telling you otherwise is describing a sale rather than a building.

The drainage study, and what it does and does not say

This site cites the drainage study the Village of Scarsdale commissioned from Mott MacDonald for the Chesterfield Road and Fox Meadow Road area. That document is a study recommending alternatives and supporting an application for mitigation funding. It is not a completed project. Nothing on this site says or implies that the Village has solved, funded or built the work it describes, and nothing here should be read as a statement about the condition of the drainage on any particular street today.

Nor do we know whether your address floods. Asked by the county planners whether it keeps a list of properties damaged by flooding, the Village answered that at present it does not, and that the repetitive loss list it holds comes from FEMA under its Community Rating System participation. No public Village list exists for you or for us to search, so any statement on this site about flooding describes a study area, a town or a published dataset, never a specific house, street or school zone.

Selling a property, and the disclosure statement

This site describes what the New York Property Condition Disclosure Statement asks a seller, because it is a document that a water history eventually meets. We do not complete, review, file or advise on that statement, and no work arranged through this site clears, satisfies or removes a disclosure obligation. A history that occurred still occurred. Questions about how to answer the form are for your attorney.

The Village sewer lateral certificate

Local Law 5 of 2023 created Article II of Chapter 244 of the Village of Scarsdale Code, and since October 1, 2023 a Discharge Compliance Certificate has been required on the sale of any property in the Village and before a building permit for residential work valued over $100,000. The inspection must be carried out by a Westchester County licensed plumber or a New York licensed professional engineer or architect, and includes closed circuit television recording of the lateral. This site explains that requirement and nothing more. We do not issue, supply, arrange, expedite, perform or certify a Discharge Compliance Certificate, we hold none of the credentials the Village requires for it, and no mold assessment or mold remediation satisfies it. It is a plumbing and engineering matter and the Village Building Department is the authority on it.

The information on these pages

The drainage, flood, housing, climate and regulatory statements on this site carry a visible source and the date it was checked. They are published as general information to help you work out what to do next. They are not a substitute for an inspection of your own property, for legal advice about your position as an owner, a seller or an occupier, or for medical advice. Statutes are amended, local laws are adopted, county plans are reissued and federal datasets are revised, so where a statement matters to a decision you are about to make, follow the link and read the source yourself.

Limits of our responsibility

We are responsible for making the introduction and for handling your details as the Privacy Policy describes. Responsibility for the standard of the work, for the timetable, for permits and Village approvals, for compliance with the licensing, building, electrical and plumbing rules that apply, and for anything that goes wrong in the course of the job, rests with the contractor who carried it out and with the agreement you signed with them. Where the law allows a limit to be set, our liability in connection with this site and with an introduction made through it is limited to the amount we received in connection with your request.

Acceptable use

Do not send requests for properties you have no connection to, do not send contact details that are not yours or are not real, and do not use the form to send commercial solicitations. We may decline to pass a request on.

Governing law

These terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of the use of this site, are governed by the laws of the State of New York, and the courts of New York have jurisdiction.

Changes

These terms may be updated. The version published on this page is the one that applies.