Old Mandeville is the grid of streets between the lakefront and Monroe Street: raised cottages and Creole-style houses, some from the 1800s, under live oaks that keep the yards shaded and the ground damp all year. Almost everything sits on piers a few blocks from Lake Pontchartrain. Katrina’s surge came over the seawall in 2005 and got under most of these houses and into some of them; a lot were dried from the top and closed up fast.
We remove mold in Old Mandeville. Call and tell us what you smell through the floor or see along the bottom of a wall.
This is the crawl space mold remediation neighborhood. Damp shaded ground, older plumbing, and a surge history under the floor. A dark line along the base of a wall that has been there since 2005, or a room that has never smelled right since, is mold removal. Mold doesn’t check the build date — but here the build date is part of the story.
Say which room, what you see or smell, and roughly when it started. We remove mold; we don’t test.
Call and tell us where the smell is strongest in Old Mandeville.
Raised cottages in Old Mandeville and older houses along the rivers sit over damp ground that never sees sun. Joists and subfloor cleaned in place, wet insulation out, the space set up to stay drier.
One closet or back bedroom that never smells right in a house that looks fine. We find the growth behind the smell and remove it instead of covering it up.
Containment, negative pressure, and the wet drywall, trim, and insulation out of the house — then the framing cleaned and dried before anything gets closed back up.
A dark patch on a ceiling, a wall, or a baseboard after a leak that ran a while. The color doesn’t change the removal; the moisture behind it is what matters.
Growth through several rooms after surge, a roof that leaked all summer, or a house that sat closed up wet. One sequenced plan, room by room, with one report at the end.
Staining on the roof deck above the air handler, a bath fan that ends in the attic, or a leak around a vent boot. Cleaned in place with the attic sealed off from the house below.
The ceiling over the shower, the wall behind the tub, the floor around the toilet. Small rooms that stay wet, and the removal that holds once the water is handled.
Musty air the moment the system starts, or a dark ring around one supply vent. Growth at the coil, in the plenum, or in wet flex duct — cleaned or replaced so it stops spreading.