Rooted in inspection.
Built for health.
Two certified home inspectors. Years in water restoration. One mission: give people the environmental data they've been missing.
The kind of experience that changes how you see a building.
Jim and Michele spent years as certified home inspectors and worked in water restoration and remediation for a large non-profit. That combination is unusual — most professionals work one side or the other. They did both.
That hands-on experience gave them an unusually deep understanding of how moisture moves through buildings, where contamination hides, and why standard visual inspection misses so much. They've seen what happens in walls after a slow leak, what grows in a crawlspace after a wet winter, and how HVAC systems redistribute problems throughout a home.
Illumenair was built on that foundation — adding professional-grade air quality analysis to give homeowners, patients, and providers the environmental data that's been missing from the picture.
We've walked through thousands of homes. The difference between what people can see and what the air data shows — room by room — is almost always surprising. That's the gap we close.— Michele & Jim, Illumenair
They kept seeing the same pattern.
People feeling sick in their homes. Getting standard mold tests that came back "normal." Still suffering.
Standard air sampling — a single cassette sent to a lab — misses the full picture. It captures one moment, one location, one parameter. It doesn't tell you what's happening in the basement versus the bedroom. It doesn't compare your indoor air against outdoor. It doesn't measure VOCs, CO₂, bacteria, viruses, or pollen at all.
Jim and Michele invested in advanced real-time particle analysis technology because they knew from their restoration work that the real story is in the data — room by room, parameter by parameter. The pattern they'd seen for years finally had a tool that could prove it.
What we bring to every assessment.
Our assessments are grounded in real inspection experience — not just equipment ownership. The combination of certified home inspection training and hands-on restoration work shapes how we approach every property.
Certified Home Inspectors
Professional certification in home inspection — training that covers structural systems, moisture intrusion, HVAC, plumbing, and the full building envelope. We know how buildings work and where they fail.
Water Restoration Background
Direct experience in water damage restoration and mold remediation — work that requires understanding not just what's visible, but how contamination spreads through building materials, cavities, and air systems over time.
Portland & SW Washington Based
We live and work in this climate. The Pacific Northwest's wet winters and variable humidity create year-round mold risk conditions that require local expertise — not a generic national protocol.
We don't sell remediation.
We don't sell air purifiers.
We provide the truth about your air.
We provide independent, unbiased environmental data. There is no financial incentive to find a problem — or to miss one. Our only product is an accurate picture of what's in your air. What you do with that information is up to you and your team.
Independent
No remediation upsell. No product sales. Our findings are yours — unfiltered.
Accurate
Professional-grade equipment. Room-by-room methodology. Data you can act on.
Transparent
Clear pricing. No surprises. Reports formatted to be shared with anyone on your team.
Know what's in your air.
Schedule a whole-property air quality assessment. We serve Portland, Vancouver, Ridgefield, and surrounding southwest Washington communities.
Portland · Vancouver · Ridgefield · SW Washington