Chris McLaughlin, sales manager for JES Foundation Repair, a company that works on foundations, crawl spaces and basements in the Washington ... by a professional mold remediation company.

The West Seattle apartment was in a midcentury brick ... Withholding rent isn’t a route to mold remediation, either. According to the Tenants Union of Washington, even when units are in desperate need ...

Mona Weingarten, of Washington ... mold from growing back, the EPA says. Cleaning large areas — more than 10 square feet, the EPA says — might require a contractor trained in mold removal.

“They’re too green,” said Nelson Barnes Jr., a mold remediation expert in the Washington area. “Houses need to breathe.” Still, experts say that finding mold need not be panic-inducin ...