The Bywater sits on the high ground of the river’s natural levee below the Marigny, and most of it stayed dry in 2005. The housing is old: shotguns, camelbacks, and Creole cottages from the 1850s through the 1920s on brick piers, many renovated lately with new bathrooms and central air dropped into houses built with neither.
We handle mold removal in Bywater. Call and tell us where the growth or the smell is and what got wet.
A renovated Bywater shotgun usually has one of two problems. A new bathroom with an exhaust fan that vents into the attic or a shower that never dries, which is bathroom mold removal. Or a new attic air handler sweating onto a century-old ceiling, which is attic mold remediation. Under both is the same damp crawl space the house has always had. Many are rented by the side; say which yours is.
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 before the affected area gets larger.
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.