Bathroom Mold Removal in New Orleans, LA
The ceiling above the shower has gone gray in the corners again, a month after you wiped it. The baseboard behind the toilet is soft. You opened the vanity to grab a towel and the bottom of the cabinet is spotted black. Call and tell us what you found — we remove bathroom mold in New Orleans and Orleans Parish.
The small room that never dries
A New Orleans bathroom is a wet room inside a wet climate. The exhaust fan in an old shotgun may vent into the attic, or may not exist; a steamy shower in a room with no fan and 88 percent outdoor humidity simply never dries. The tile and hard surfaces you can clean yourself when the patch is small. The trouble is everything that isn’t tile: the painted drywall above the surround, the wall behind the toilet where the supply line seeps, the floor around a tub that has been leaking at the drain, the cabinet under a sink with a slow drip at the trap.
Why the spot on the ceiling keeps coming back
- Small is exactly when you want to find it — a corner of the ceiling now beats a whole ceiling later.
- Repainting recurring growth doesn’t address the source; the moisture is still landing on the same surface every morning.
- Porous moldy material — drywall above a surround, the floor of a vanity cabinet — often has to come out rather than be wiped down.
- A musty smell in a bathroom with nothing visible often means the growth is inside the wall around a pipe, not on it.
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What the job looks like
We seal the bathroom door and run the room under negative pressure. The affected drywall, the cabinet base, and any wet subfloor come out; the framing and the tile backer get cleaned in place and left to dry. If the ceiling stain traces back to the attic, that becomes attic mold remediation. EPA doesn’t recommend bleach as a routine practice and says not to paint or caulk over mold, which is what most bathroom ceilings in this city have had done to them at least once.
The water has to stop
Bathroom mold has the most obvious source in the house and the most ignored one. Whether it’s a fan that vents nowhere, a supply line, a failed tub drain, or a shower that runs twice a day in a room with no air movement, we tell you what has to change for the removal to hold.
