Caught early it’s a cleanup. Left alone it’s a rebuild.
Mold follows water, and it moves inside the wall long before it stains the drywall. Contain the room, take out the affected material, dry the cavity — that is a day’s work for a certified crew. Wait a season and the same job turns into framing, insulation and a contractor.
You can smell it but you cannot find it. A technician reads moisture through the wall, opens only what needs opening, and shows you what is actually behind it. The visual assessment is free.
Containment up, negative air running through a HEPA filter, affected material out. We work to the IICRC S520 standard and dry the cavity to a meter reading before anything is closed back up.
Dark growth on a wet wall is handled the same careful way whatever the species turns out to be. It can trigger allergies and asthma, so the room comes down under containment — not with bleach and a box fan.
The meter went off two feet from where I was sure the problem was — behind the laundry wall, not the bathroom. Two other companies had already been out. One wanted to open the whole bathroom on a guess and the other never sent the quote. This crew opened one section instead of the room, and the plastic was up before anything got cut. Four days later the readings came back dry and they showed me the log before they closed it. What I did not expect was getting the cause in writing, so the plumber had something to work from.
Rachel C.Tampa, Florida
I called at eleven at night expecting a machine. A person picked up, asked what I was looking at and how long it had been wet, and had a crew at the house before ten the next morning. Nobody tried to sell me a test kit or quote a number down the phone before anyone had seen it. The technician walked the basement with me and showed me the readings — the wall that looked bad and was fine, and the wall that looked fine and was not. Then he said what he would do and what it would cost. The number he wrote down that morning is the number on the invoice.
Marcus D.Atlanta, Georgia
They talked me out of the bigger job. The technician said the drywall would come back if we dried it properly instead of tearing it out, and it did. He set fans and a dehumidifier in the hallway, came back on the third day to check the meter, and would not close anything up until the numbers stopped moving. He also found where the water was getting in and wrote it down, so I got the gutter fixed before the next storm. The final bill came in under the estimate, which has never once happened to me with a contractor.
Sheryl A.Houston, Texas
Six steps from your call to a dry, clean room
Step01 Call
You get a person, not a queue. We ask what you are seeing, where the water came from and how long it has been there, then dispatch a certified crew that works your area.
Step02 Inspect
The technician reads moisture through the wall before opening anything, traces it back to the source, and walks you through what they found. The visual assessment costs nothing.
Step03 Contain
Sheeting goes up around the work area and negative air pulls everything through a HEPA filter, so what comes off the wall leaves the building instead of travelling down the hallway.
Step04 Remove
Affected material comes out, what stays is HEPA-vacuumed and wiped down, and the remaining structure is treated. The sequence follows IICRC S520, the industry standard for mold remediation.
Step05 Dry & verify
Air movers and dehumidifiers run until the cavity reads dry on a meter, not until it looks dry. You get the readings written down and dated before anything is closed up.
Step06 Prevent
You get the source in writing — the leak, the grade, the bath fan venting into the attic — because a wall that gets wet again grows mold again, however well it was cleaned.
