St. Roch is the neighborhood lakeside of the Marigny and the Bywater, between St. Claude and the railroad — shotguns, doubles, and cottages from the 1880s through the 1920s on piers. It sits off the ridge and took three to five feet of water in 2005, and came back unevenly: renovated houses next to ones that were dried, patched, and reoccupied fast.
We remove mold in St. Roch. Phone us and describe the growth or the musty smell, then tell us what got wet.
The St. Roch call is one of those patched houses: a wall closed in 2006 over framing that hadn’t dried, growth returning at the same baseboard, a back room that has never smelled right — mold removal. Under the house it’s a wet crawl space, crawl space mold remediation. If it has come back at the same spot more than once, 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. Our job in St. Roch is remediation; Louisiana law leaves the evaluation side to another company.
When you call, say where in the St. Roch house the musty smell is worst.
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.