Uptown runs along the river’s natural levee from the Garden District to Carrollton, and most of it stayed dry in 2005 for exactly that reason. What it has instead is age: shotguns, camelbacks, and double galleries from the 1880s through the 1920s on brick piers, with plaster walls, original bath vents that go nowhere, and roofs that have been patched through every hurricane season since.
We handle mold removal in Uptown. Call and tell us where the growth or the smell is and what got wet.
Under the floor is where Uptown mold usually starts — a musty back bedroom after rain, soft boards near the bathroom — and that is crawl space mold remediation. The second most common call is a bathroom ceiling in a house with no exhaust fan, which is bathroom mold removal. Many Uptown houses are doubles with a tenant on one side; if that’s you, say so when you call.
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 or assess.
Call and tell us where the smell is strongest.
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.