Whole-Home Mold Remediation in New Orleans, LA
Some houses don’t have a mold spot; they have mold. A line at the same height along every wall after water came in. Growth in three rooms from a roof that leaked through a whole summer of storms. A rental in Gentilly that sat closed with the power off through August. A house in the East that was rebuilt in 2007 and has never smelled right. We do whole-home mold remediation across New Orleans and Orleans Parish. Call and tell us what happened.
What a whole-home job changes
Sequence, mostly. We work the house in sections, so that one area is sealed and under negative pressure while another is being cleared and no debris crosses a room that is already clean. We track down where the water came from — all of it, not only the obvious source — before anything is rebuilt anywhere. And the written report at the end covers every room, because that is what a buyer, an adjuster, or a tenant’s lawyer will read.
What comes out after water has been through a house
- Wet drywall, insulation, carpet and pad, cabinets that stood in water, ceiling tile, and trim — bagged inside the containment before it leaves.
- The drywall cut runs well above the water line, because water wicks up inside a wall.
- Framing, brick, and slab stay and get cleaned and dried; nothing closes until the wood reads dry.
- CDC researchers found visible mold in 45 percent of New Orleans homes after Katrina, and in 17 percent it covered more than half a wall — that is what a whole-home job looked like then, and still does.
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Twenty years after Katrina
Roughly 80 percent of the city flooded in 2005. Tens of thousands of houses were gutted, dried “well enough,” and closed back up because families needed a place to live. Some of them have carried a musty back bedroom ever since. Ida in 2021 opened roofs across the parish and put a second round of water into a lot of the same walls. If your house has a room that has never been right since one storm or the other, this is the page, and it is worth a call before the next season.
Insurance, without promises
Standard homeowners policies exclude flood, and many cap mold at a fixed amount even for a covered sudden event; flood insurance excludes mold the property owner could have avoided, which is why speed matters after water comes in. What your policy pays is between you and your insurer. What we do is photograph, log, and itemize every room so the adjuster has something to work with.
