New Orleans is a natural levee with a bowl behind it. The high ground along the river — the Quarter, the Marigny, the Bywater, Uptown — carries shotguns, doubles, and raised cottages on brick piers. The bowl — Lakeview, Gentilly, Broadmoor, Mid-City, the East — is slab ranches and post-war subdivisions that took the levee-breach water in 2005 and were rebuilt fast. All of it shares 88 percent morning humidity.
We remove mold in New Orleans. Call and describe what you see or smell and what got wet.
Under the raised houses the call is usually a musty smell coming up through the floor, which is crawl space mold remediation. In the slab ranches it’s a soft baseboard or a cut line from the 2005 rebuild that never fully dried — mold removal. In the rentals — a large share of the city — it’s often a tenant with a ceiling that was painted over twice. Say which side of the lease you’re on.
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 and remediation only — we don’t test.
Call and describe what you’re seeing in New Orleans.
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.