Steve Yerger
Principal of BCRS K9 Mold Detection Service
P.O. Box 508
New Windsor, MD 21776
MHIC #31846
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888-289-0162     410-984-6594      410-635-6020

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Serving;
Washington DC, Maryland, Southern PA, Virginia

BCRS K9 Mold Detection Service has been fully approved as a prospective Mold Help Approved Resource.  After a thorough investigation by our Mold Help Panel, we have fully concurred and approved this company as a valued resource to our consumers. 
These are the following comments made by our prestigious Mold Help Evaluation Panel-
 

“Mr. Yerger is one of the best inspectors in the country with the top notch experience.”

 “Mr. Yerger’s trained canines, staff, tools, and resources, can detect mold problems in a quick and less invasive way.”
“Steve’s education, professional experience, training, and tools are the most state of the art that I have ever seen.”

BCRS K-9 Mold Detection is a division of Bobcat Rentals And Services Inc., a mid-range, full service, water consultation and remediation firm established in 1987 serving the mid-Maryland and greater Washington area. 

Owner Steven Yerger has twenty-five years experience in the construction industry, the last fifteen of these in waterproofing for residential buildings, including grading, drainage swales, interior and exterior drains, and sump pumps. Steve Yerger and the entire Mold Team are dedicated to keeping on the cutting edge of the mold detection industry and are continually enhancing their expertise through ongoing training and advanced certification processes. BCRS offers mold inspection and detection services for homeowners, realtors, landlords, insurance companies, and commercial properties - without the need for destructive investigative drilling or intrusive nuisance equipment. 

In addition to our state of the art scent detection canine, BCRS offers several other features which set us apart from much of the competition, including: In addition to our state of the art scent detection canine, BCRS offers several other features which set us apart from much of the competition, including:

• Infrared Thermal Imaging Camera: Helps us to determine suspect areas. 
• Moisture meter: Detects abnormal moisture levels under tile, carpet, and behind walls which can lead to mold growth and contamination. 
• Optic Halogen Boroscope: Allows us to visually confirm the presence of suspect mold within wall cavities at canine alert sites. 
• Laser Particle Counter: Measures airborne particle counts in specific locations to help determine potential problem areas. 
• Calibrated Air Impactor with High Volume Pump: Collects air particulates on Petri dishes for lab analysis. (We use an expensive DC Lite calibration unit to achieve the industry recommended 28.3 LPM air flow for air sampling.) 
• MouldWorks: State of the art laboratory with Dr. George Carroll, a mycologist with 37 years of experience, who oversees and signs every report. And for those who desire fast results, a 48-hour turn-around time for reports is offered. 
• Final Mold Inspection Report: In addition to BCRS's written observations for eliminating a mold infestation, our reports also include the complete laboratory report from MouldWorks, with detailed information about each sampled site in which mold was found, including the exact species of mold, its density of growth, and toxicity. MouldWorks will even report any bacteria and/or yeasts detected at no additional cost. Our reports are also recognized and used by top remediators to develop estimates and remediation protocols, eliminating the need for further testing prior to remediation! 

Dogs have been used extensively in law enforcement and military applications to detect narcotics and explosives for over thirty years. Dogs are regularly used in arson investigations to detect accelerants since they are much more accurate at discriminating between accelerants and by-products of combustion than field VOC detectors. Controlled laboratory studies have documented accurate detection by dogs of specific compounds associated with explosives and narcotics at air concentrations below 1 ppb. Relatively few applications have taken advantage of this canine capability in the environmental arena. 

Dogs could be used to rapidly screen houses for problems such as vapor intrusion of a variety of VOCs, identifying the presence of mildews and toxic molds, or rapidly identifying houses where illicit pesticide use has occurred. 

Dogs can also serve as a rapid screen to indicate the presence of a substance in air in a house and are also capable of moving towards the source of volatile materials. Benzene, toluene, ethylene, and xylene (BTEX) are major constituents of gasoline and frequent culprits in vapor intrusion into buildings from contaminated groundwater. Since indoor air contamination can also occur from household sources responsibility is often contested. Canines have the potential to provide an effective approach to screening for the contaminant source location. 

A dog and handler team could screen a room for chemical contamination in a matter of minutes and an entire residence in well under an hour. For vapor intrusion investigations, a dog could be used both to cost effectively identify the source location of the air contaminant and do follow up 'sampling' after remediation is implemented. 

Dogs' noses are such sensitive chemical detectors they can detect a target compound in the presence of confounding odors at orders of magnitude higher concentration. They are even capable of discriminating between a target compound and closely related ones. They can be trained to detect multiple target compounds (>20) and to move up gradient to the area of highest concentration. The bottom of the purple bars show the equilibrium air concentration over a water sample containing benzene, toluene, ethylbenezene or xylenes (BTEX), all common groundwater pollutants at the allowed drinking water concentration. The top of the bars shows the OSHA eight hour permissible exposure concentrations in the workplace. The lined area in the fifth column is a range of canine detection levels from a laboratory study at Auburn's Canine Detection Research Institute. 

As with all Mold Help Approved Resources, we welcome feedback from former consumers to maintain the quality control that we feel is so important to the public.