
About us
When it’s Your Health that Matters Most. Rick Bayless is founder and owner of A Healthier Home LLC. Board-certified as an indoor environmental consultant by the Indoor Air Quality Association and as a Healthy Homes Specialist by the National Environmental Health Association, Rick offers expert, unbiased evaluations and services regarding a home’s environmental and wellness status including Sick House Syndrome. ahealthierhomenc.com With 35 years experience, Rick Bayless is founder and owner of A Healthier Home LLC, Western North Carolina’s leading environmental home health service provider. He is board-certified as an indoor environmental consultant by the Indoor Air Quality Association and as a Healthy Homes Specialist through the National Environmental Health Association and author of “Mold in the Southern Appalachians: Identifying, Preventing and Managing Mold-Related Illness.”
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"Mrs. Goode, Thank you so much for your review! We are honored that you chose us to guide you through restoring the house back to healthier conditions. We are so glad you were pleased with our visual inspection, photo set, and report. That was the first part of our service. It provides us with the basis upon which we guide you through your projects. Please call us to begin the next phase of our service: The conversation/guidance part. Let's discuss our findings, answer your questions, and your work plan for the house, as we guide you through your projects. You can fix the issues we've identified. It's the coaching that comes next. Rick, Bridget, and Scott at A Healthier Home."
"Phil. Keep us posted as you implement those measures to restore house healthiness. Next steps will be to be on the watch for the earliest signs that Mother Nature is trying to turn your house back into a jungle. Keep up with the maintenance measures that you learned from us. Call us with questions as they come up. Thanks. Rick, Scott, and Bridget."
"Thanks, Jaime. Your house needs you to keep it healthy. It can't do it on its own. That's why your house needs me to give you your personal tutorial about how your house works so you know what to look for and what to do to get it back to health and to keep it healthy going forward. Thanks again. Rick Bayless. A Healthier Home."
"Thanks, Paul. It wasn't intuition at all. As you participated in our examination at your own place, you saw just how unhelpful it is to just do a mold air test, or even to apply just a mold perspective to house / health issues. The key is to bring in the broad perspective of the environment, house, systems, behavior, and health by someone who has done the work for decades of learning, exploring, crawling, climbing, discovering, and thinking to develop the understanding of the where, why, what, and how of houses going sick. Sorry...it wasn't intuition at all. But thank you for making it sound like I did something mysterious and magical. Rick Bayless. A Healthier Home."
"Thank you Maria. Keep me posted of progress, setbacks, and new questions. Rick Bayless. 828-243-5192"
"Claudia, Thank you for your kind words. Call me if questions come up as you work through the measures we outlined together. Rick Bayless. A Healthier Home."
"Derick, I know it is a chore to clean out the air handler components and ductwork, but that project means a lot to restoring the unit to a better state of healthiness. Let's discuss progress, setbacks, and next questions. Rick Bayless. A Healthier Home 828-243-5192"
"Debra. Our service begins with the examination of house needs and the immediate outline of corrective measures. But that's only the beginning. Remember that through the coming weeks and months, we look for you to call us with questions so we can guide you on the right path through that house to-do list. Home Healthiness is usually a new territory for homeowners, and since there are many items to address, the coaching phase (included in the service) is the important next part of the service that we remain here to help you through. Call us to discuss progress, setbacks, and next questions. Rick Bayless. 828-243-5192"
"Sherri, Thanks for your kind words. Keep me posted on progress. I'm here to guide you and the building owner on through the projects that you will be applying to the house to correct unhealthy conditions. Rick Bayless"
"Ken, Thank you for your kind words. Rick B"
"David. Painstaking. Isn't that the truth? Don't know how many times I have bumped, scratched, punctured, and cut my head on sharp things sticking down from the bottom of a floor system while contorting my way into the depths of a tight crawl space. Like that first jump into a swimming pool while you're still dry, the more you stand there and think about it the harder it is to do. You just have to go. Rick Bayless."
"Linda, we are happy to help homeowners solve these mold, air quality, odor, home, and health mysteries. We work to put them in the position of knowing what is and what is not to be in control of the situation rather than remain at the mercy of house issues... Or at the mercy of sales perspectives that may be off-target. Rick Bayless"
"Kippy. Thank you for relaying your thoughts to us. Once we interpret our findings that we've gathered during our examination of the home then we invite you to reach out to us as often as you may need to discuss the smallest as well as the most complicated questions that come along next. At a client visit we did yesterday, the issues we discovered were straight forward enough. Before we left the client's house, we addressed the hour-long set of questions that several family members in attendance had about what was at issue, where the issues were at, why they were happening, how to correct them, and which issue to address first. They completed their first measure before we left the house. They know which one to do next. Every house situation is unique. Every house corrective process will proceed differently. We remain available to review any item, discuss any questions, and guide you through your next step. Call us any time with any questions. Thanks again. Rick Bayless and Scott Parker."
"Deborah, Thank you for your kind words about us. Now that we've examined your house and defined your to-do list to make your house healthier, the next step is to make progress on your projects. We remain available for weeks, months, seasons, and years after our visit to guide you through next questions that will come up. Keep us posted of progress, setbacks, and new questions. Thanks again. Rick Bayless."
"Norm. I appreciate your comments about price. The industry is dominated by either overly test-focused firms that leave too many home health elements unexplored, and moreso by sales- oriented firms that look primarily for only the part of the house that may contain a multi-thousand dollar project available to them. We saw nobody out there providing a thorough examination of the house from an experienced, objective, health-centered perspective. The result is that we see most issues either go unaddressed or that folks spent way too many thousands on "unnecessary surgery" house projects. A Healthier Home focuses on what was in the homeowner's best interests in addressing house, health, and of course mold issues. We're here to help you make the most of your house, your health, your time, and your dollars. Call us for guidance through the issues we identified that need attention at your place. That's also part of our assistance to you... Seeing that you next efforts result in healthier conditions and with lesser dollars expended. Call me anytime. Rick Bayless. 828-243-5192."
"Thanks for your kind words Lorie. We focus on your health. Mold, odors, allergens, irritants, dampness, chemical off-gassing, and more... those are only some of the potential culprits. Our responsibility to you as Healthier Home Investigators/Diagnosticians is to understand all that and to sort out what is and what is not at issue. That's the point of all this... that the house better supports your health. Keep us posted of progress, setbacks, and questions as you complete the house wellness steps we've outlined for you. Be well. Rick Bayless."
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