— 2026 Pricing Guide —
Most Carrollton remediation jobs land between $1,200 and $7,500, and the number is set by how much material has to come out, not by how bad it looks. The leak repair and the rebuild are billed separately, so budget for the removal, the repair and the rebuild before you start comparing quotes.
Typical Local Pricing
That band covers the single-room and multi-room work most Carrollton homeowners are quoted, where pricing runs roughly $10 to $25 per square foot of the affected area. It excludes the leak repair that caused the mold and the rebuild afterward, and the whole-home tier below runs well past it — just as a small contained patch of a few square feet can come in under it.
Typical ranges by scope of the affected area
About These Numbers
These are typical local market ranges charged by independent licensed companies in Carrollton and the surrounding DFW market, drawn from 2025-2026 pricing published by contractors and cost aggregators serving the area. They are not a quote and not our pricing. Mold Removal Carrollton is a free referral service and does not perform inspection or remediation work. Your actual price depends on the affected area, the moisture source, and what a licensed contractor finds once the wall is open — and any plumbing, roofing or rebuild figures quoted on this page are advertised prices from those separate trades, not part of a remediation bill.
No one can warrant another company's work, so verify it yourself before money changes hands. Ask for the remediation contractor's TDLR license number and check it against the state's public license search. Texas law bars a license holder — and any commonly owned firm — from both assessing and remediating the same project, whatever its size; on a project at or above 25 contiguous square feet that means the written protocol has to come from an independent Mold Assessment Consultant. Ask to see the TDLR notification confirmation, which must be filed at least five calendar days before the start date, or by the next business day where delaying work after a water loss would make the contamination worse. Ask for the written work plan you are owed at least one calendar day before prep begins. Require a line-itemized scope that states plainly what is excluded: the leak repair, the rebuild, contents cleaning and clearance testing usually are. Then confirm in writing that you will receive the Certificate of Mold Damage Remediation within 10 days of the stop-date — that document is what preserves the Texas Insurance Code 544.303 protection against an insurer making an adverse underwriting decision over prior mold, and it is what you hand a buyer when you sell.
— What Moves the Price —
Two Carrollton houses on the same street can get quotes thousands apart, and it is almost never because one company is greedy. It is because the four things below are scoped differently. Know them and you can read a quote instead of guessing at it.
Local pricing of roughly $10 to $25 per square foot is measured on the affected area, not the floor area of your home. A 2,400 square foot Carrollton house with 120 square feet of contaminated drywall is a 120 square foot job. Small jobs still price above that rate, because containment, negative air and mobilization cost the same whether the patch is 8 square feet or 20.
Carrollton's slab-on-grade housing stock puts the air handler and the whole supply trunk in a vented attic, so a contaminated system redistributes spores to every room and turns a contained job into a whole-home one. Duct and air-handler remediation is quoted around the Dallas market at roughly $1,900 to $10,000 on its own. Combined with a full attic remediation, DFW contractors put it at $12,000 to $20,000 and above, at the top of the whole-home tier — which is the single biggest reason two quotes for the same house differ by five figures.
Below it, the removal work is exempt from Texas licensing; the assessment side is not, because that exemption covers remediation only. At or above it, the job needs a licensed remediation contractor, a written protocol from an independent assessment consultant, a TDLR notification filed at least five calendar days ahead in the ordinary case with a $25 filing fee on an owner-occupied home, containment and negative-air controls set by that protocol, and a post-remediation assessment. That is why a 20 square foot job and a 30 square foot job are not priced proportionally — crossing the line adds an assessor, a filing, a waiting period and a verification step.
Remediation quotes exclude both. In Carrollton the water source is frequently an under-slab plumbing leak, and local plumbers advertise roughly $185 to $450 to locate it, $850 to $2,500 for a direct-access spot repair, $2,500 to $5,000 to tunnel, and $3,000 to $8,000 to reroute the line overhead. Then budget roughly 30 to 50 percent on top of the remediation figure to put the drywall, insulation and flooring back.
The cheapest quote is usually the one that has not read the rules. Whoever you hire, Texas exempts remediation from licensing only where mold affects less than 25 contiguous square feet of total surface area for the whole project — it aggregates across the job, it is not measured per room. A homeowner working on their own house is separately exempt at any size, but that route produces no certificate either. When an unlicensed crew opens a wall and finds the contamination runs past that line, 16 TAC 78.30(d) requires them to stop work immediately and tell the homeowner the exemption has been lost. That is the legal reason a bargain job ends with the cavity open, containment half-built, and a licensed contractor pricing the same work from a worse starting point. The quieter cost lands later: with no licensed contractor and no independent assessment consultant, there is no Certificate of Mold Damage Remediation. That certificate is the cleanest way to secure the Texas Insurance Code 544.303 protection against an insurer making an adverse underwriting decision over prior mold — without it you are relying on an independent assessor inspecting later and finding nothing, which is a harder position to be in when you are selling. It is also what gives a seller the Occupations Code 1958.303 shelter from civil liability for mold damage accruing before the certificate date. Without one, a buyer simply gets your word that the work was done.
Pricing Questions
Most Carrollton jobs land between $1,200 and $7,500, charged by independent licensed companies. A single contained room sits near the bottom of that band; multiple rooms, an attic, or a contaminated HVAC system pushes toward the top. Dallas-market survey figures centre tighter than that, at roughly $1,400 to $3,500 with an average near $2,300 — the wider band above absorbs the multi-room and attic work those averages smooth out. Whole-house or structural work runs past the band and into five figures.
Almost always because they cover different scopes, not because one company is overcharging. One may be remediation only while the other bundles the reconstruction. One may include the attic air handler and duct system while the other leaves HVAC out entirely. Ask each company to write down what is excluded, not just what is included — a single lump sum with no itemization and no stated exclusions is not comparable to anything.
No. The $10 to $25 per square foot figure quoted around the DFW market applies to the affected area, not the size of the house. A large Carrollton home with one wet wall is a small job in pricing terms. Expect small jobs to price above the per-foot rate anyway, because setup and containment carry a minimum cost regardless of how little material comes out.
Almost never. A remediation price normally covers containment, negative air and HEPA filtration, removal of contaminated porous material, cleaning, antimicrobial treatment, drying and sealed disposal — but confirm each of those line items is actually in writing, because it is not universal. The plumbing or roof repair is a different trade and a separate bill. In Carrollton that second bill is often an under-slab leak, with local plumbers advertising $185 to $450 to locate it, $850 to $2,500 for a spot repair, $2,500 to $5,000 to tunnel, and $3,000 to $8,000 to reroute the line. Sequence matters, because remediating before the water is stopped is how people pay twice.
No. Removing drywall, insulation and flooring is remediation. Replacing them is reconstruction, and it is normally a separate contract with a separate number. Plan on roughly 30 to 50 percent on top of the remediation figure for the rebuild, and more where cabinetry, tile or a full bathroom is involved. Published rebuild dollar figures vary by nearly three times between sources, so the percentage is the safer planning number.
No, and on larger projects Texas law prevents it. A basic Carrollton-area inspection with a few lab samples typically runs $300 to $650. A full TMARR assessment is a different product — a licensed Mold Assessment Consultant writing the remediation protocol and clearance criteria for a project at or above 25 contiguous square feet commonly runs several hundred dollars to well over a thousand. Ask whether a quote accounts for clearance and who you will be paying for it, because on a licensed project the verification has to come from a separate assessment consultant and lands on your bill, not the remediation contractor's.
It depends on the cause and on your specific policy, and no one can promise an outcome in advance. Texas policies more often respond when mold follows a sudden, accidental event that was itself covered, such as a burst supply line, and more often exclude mold traced to a slow leak or deferred maintenance. Mold remediation coverage is usually an optional endorsement rather than part of the base policy, and carriers set its limit differently — some as a percentage of dwelling coverage, some as a flat sub-limit — so read your declarations page and endorsement schedule rather than assuming. Dated written assessments, lab results and photographs make any claim considerably easier to support.
Keep Reading
What a visual inspection, air samples, lab work and a licensed TMARR assessment actually cost here — and why the assessment has to come from a different company than the one doing the removal.
See inspection pricingHow a compliant remediation runs start to finish: containment, protocol, the five-day TDLR notification, and the certificate you should end up holding.
See how the work runsThese are typical ranges, not a quote. Describe your situation and licensed local specialists come back with written prices — free, and with no obligation.