Fontainebleau is the lakeside neighborhood between Broadmoor and the university district, on the low side of the ridge. It flooded in 2005 — three to six feet on most blocks — and most of its raised bungalows, doubles, and 1930s two-stories were gutted and rebuilt. The crawl spaces fill after every hard rain, because the neighborhood drains toward the same pumps as Broadmoor.
We take mold calls from Fontainebleau at any hour. Tell us what you’re seeing and what got it wet.
The Fontainebleau call is usually a rebuild that has never fully dried — growth returning along the bottom of a wall, a closet that smells — which is mold removal. Under the raised houses, standing water leads to crawl space mold remediation. Many of the doubles here are rented by the side. If a room has smelled musty since the rebuild, say so.
If we can pick up, you’re connected right then; if we’re mid-job you get a callback time and the number it will come from. Removal only — we don’t test.
Call and describe what you’re seeing in Fontainebleau.
Dark staining on the roof deck above a bathroom fan, a sweating air handler, or the leak that opened up in the last storm. Cleaned in place with the attic sealed off from the rooms below.
The ceiling over the tub, the wall behind the toilet, the floor of the vanity cabinet. Small rooms that never dry out in New Orleans, and removal that holds once the water is under control.
A musty blast every time the air conditioning starts. Growth at the coil, in the plenum, or in sweating insulated duct — cleaned or replaced so the system stops moving it through the house.
Shotguns, doubles, and raised cottages on piers hold damp air and standing water under the floor. Joists and subfloor cleaned, wet insulation out, and the space set up to stay drier.
A room that smells like a wet box and looks fine. Finding the growth that makes the smell and taking it out, instead of covering it with a spray.
Work area sealed and under negative pressure, the wet drywall, trim, and insulation out, the framing cleaned and dried before anything gets closed back up.
Dark, slimy, or greenish-black growth on drywall, ceilings, or baseboards. The color doesn’t change what we do; what got it wet does.
Growth through several rooms after floodwater, a roof that leaked all summer, or a house that sat shut with the power off. Room-by-room containment and removal on one plan.