How Long Will My PCI Distance Training Take Me To Complete?
 

Improve your career and earnings by entering into the lucrative environmental mold inspection, environmental mold remediation, and/or environmental hygiene professions, but how can you fit schooling and training into your busy life? The answer is distance training from the Professional Certification Institute. Working around your current schedule and commitments, you can start and finish one to three PCI certification courses simultaneously in approximately 60 to 100 hours of intensive home study at your own schedule and pace. Read the very thorough mold training course content and the environmental hygiene course content.  After you have completed your training and certification via home study, the written essay exam test questions will be emailed to you after you inform PCI that you are ready to take the certification test(s) for Certified Mold Inspector, Certified Mold Remediator, and Certified Environmental Hygienist.

“It is my pleasure to take this opportunity to thank you for the wonderful job you did during the seminars on mold inspection and remediation. The way you conduct your lecture and presentation is a real art and each word (e.g., contract, inspect, look, test, contain, kill, remove, protect, prevent) and printed handout is a lecture by itself. I have no doubt that you have opened a new era for me in the mold testing field.”--- Saifeldin El-Nagerabi, Ph.D in mycology (science of mold) and a professor of mycology at a Canadian University. Dr. El-Nagerabi, now a Certified Mold Inspector, attended Mr. Fry’s 2 day mold seminar in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, June 16-17, 2007. Read more Student Testimonials.

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Attention Home Inspectors: To maximize your earnings as mold inspector and home inspector, be sure to include mold inspection and testing techniques in your home inspection training, home inspector training, home inspector education, and home inspector schooling.

How Do I Enroll and Pay My Tuition and Dues?
 

Your first step is to complete (neat printing in black ink) and sign both the Training Application and the Code of Ethics, and then send both items to PCI by email attachment to: envirodangers@yahoo.com.

How do I pay the tuition and annual PCI dues?  You can pay with your Visa, Master Card, American Express Card, Discover Card, US bank account, or PayPal balance by using the PayPal payment links at the top of this page. Alternatively, you can pay by personal or business check or cashier's check or money order in US dollars mailed to the Professional Certification Institute, P.O. Box 341, Dumaguete 6200, Negros Oriental, Philippines. Please allow at least two weeks for delivery by international airmail. You can also pay by international bank wire. If you want bank wire instructions, please email Mold Instructor. You can subtract the bank wire fee (up to US$35) from your bank wire payment amount.

How Can I Make Money with My Certifications?
 

The mold training and environmental hygienist courses include many practical and proven suggestions on how to attract mold inspection, testing, and remediation and environmental hygiene clients to your professional mold and environmental hygiene practice. In addition, you would do well financially by utilizing the low-cost and very effective mold inspector and mold remediator advertising services available to you on the mold inspector and environmental hygienist directory website Certified Mold Inspectors. Visit Website Advertising for full details. For more info, please email Mold Instructor.

Where Can I Use My Professional Designation Certifications?
 

Read about the Big Shortage of Canadian Environmental Workers. The Certified Mold Inspector and Certified Mold Remediator professional designation certifications can be used anywhere in the world except the State of Texas, wherein you would need to attend a Texas-licensed mold training school that is physically located in Texas. Because PCI teaches only online and is not located physically in Texas, PCI cannot provide you with mold professional certifications for use in Texas.

The Certified Environmental Hygienist professional designation certification can be used anywhere in the world, including Texas, but you would need to have a Texas Department of Health license to do mold inspection, mold testing, and mold remediation in Texas.

Please note that you will need to obtain a city or state/provincial business license in most cities in the USA, Canada, and elsewhere in the world to do any kind of business activity including mold inspection, mold testing, mold remediation, and environmental hygiene. If your business will be home-based (and if local zoning does not permit home-based businesses), you may need to rent a private, local business mail box street address from a company like Mail Boxes Etc. to obtain your local business license, or operate your business in an owned or rented business property.

If your business activities will include any structural work or repairs (such as plumbing repairs after you locate a water leak), you will probably need to obtain the appropriate contractor license or work in conjunction with licensed professionals such as a plumber or construction contractor. For contractor licensing requirements, check with your local or state building department, contractor licensing agency, or building inspector.

The Wall Street Journal [Aug., 2002] article reported the mold inspector and mold remediator profession as one of the hot job opportunities in today's tight job market. The Journal reported: "An instructor at the Certified Mold Inspectors and Contractors Institute [now known as Professional Certification Institute], says that opportunities for 'certified mold inspectors' and 'certified mold remediators' are 'steadily growing' across the country. Inspectors can earn as much as $100,000 annually while remediators who rip out mold- infested areas can take home much more." Read about the Big Shortage of Canadian Environmental Workers