We remove mold from houses, doubles, and condos across Orleans Parish, Uptown to the Lower Ninth. Removal and remediation is the whole business, finished with a written report. Louisiana law puts the evaluation side on a separate company, and we stay off it entirely.
Morning humidity here runs about 88 percent, so a wall that got wet on Friday is not dry by Monday. Shotguns and doubles on brick piers in Uptown, the Marigny, and the Seventh Ward carry a century of patched roofs over crawl spaces that never see the sun. The slab ranches in Lakeview, Gentilly, and New Orleans East took the levee-breach water in 2005 and were re-sheeted fast, sometimes over framing that hadn’t dried. The rebuilds are tight enough that a small leak has no way out, and the AC sweats inside attic ducts eleven months a year. After Katrina, CDC investigators found visible mold in 45 percent of the New Orleans homes they surveyed. Most of our calls now are about one ordinary leak in a house that still carries that history.
We don’t price a job from a phone description. We come out, take moisture readings on the drywall, plaster, and framing around the stain, and work out how far past the visible edge the wet area runs — that boundary sets the scope, and it is usually wider than it looks. You get a written scope before anything is sealed off. The water source has to be stopped for the removal to hold; that is done by contractors we work with, and we cover it on the call.
Plaster over lath in an 1890s double cleans differently from drywall in a 2007 rebuild, and a crawl space job under a raised cottage happens below the floor. What stays the same: the area is sealed under negative pressure, what can’t be saved comes out bagged, the framing is HEPA-vacuumed and wiped, and nothing is closed until it reads dry.
We serve New Orleans, Uptown, Lakeview, Gentilly, Mid-City, Algiers, New Orleans East, the Bywater and Marigny, Broadmoor, Carrollton, the Lower Garden District and Garden District, Treme, the Seventh Ward, the Irish Channel, Bayou St. John, the Lower Ninth Ward and Holy Cross, Audubon, Fontainebleau, and St. Roch.
Louisiana requires a state mold remediation license for any job over $7,500, issued by the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors; a general contractor without it is capped at twenty square feet. Before anyone starts work in Orleans Parish, pull their license record at lacontractor.org, or phone the board at 1-800-256-1392. Ask for the license number, a certificate of insurance, and a written scope before the work starts — from us or anyone else.
We answer at any hour. Tell us where the growth or the smell is, what got wet, and whether you’ve cleaned or painted it before. 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.