Crawl Space Mold Remediation in New Orleans, LA
The back bedroom of the shotgun smells like wet dirt, and it’s worse after a hard rain. The floorboards near the bathroom have gone soft. You shined a light through the lattice and saw insulation hanging from the joists, gray and dripping. Call and tell us what you smell coming up through the floor — we remediate crawl space mold under raised houses across New Orleans and Orleans Parish.
Under a New Orleans house
Most of the old housing in this city — shotguns, camelbacks, doubles, raised cottages in Uptown, the Bywater, the Irish Channel, Treme, and the Seventh Ward — sits on brick piers over a crawl space that never sees the sun. The ground under it holds water after every storm because the water table is right there. Add a bathroom drain that has been seeping for years, an AC condensate line that dumps under the house, or a downspout pointed at the skirting, and the joists and subfloor stay damp most of the year. Twenty years after Katrina, water still matters under these houses.
What we do under the floor
- Wet, sagging insulation between the joists comes out bagged — it can’t be dried in place.
- Joists, sills, and the underside of the subfloor stay and get cleaned, HEPA-vacuumed, and left to dry.
- We tell you what is keeping the space wet — the drain, the condensate line, the grading — so the removal lasts.
- Drying the house out doesn’t end the conversation, because drying stops new growth without removing what already grew.
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What a crawl space job means for the rooms above
Nothing gets torn out inside the house unless the subfloor itself has gone soft. Most of the work happens below, with the openings in the skirting sealed and the space under negative pressure so the dust from the joists doesn’t rise through the floorboards. If the smell turns out to be a wet wall around a bathroom pipe rather than the crawl space, that becomes bathroom mold removal, and we tell you which it is.
