Assessed First
Mold Removal & Remediation in Lawrenceville, GA
Containment, HEPA filtration, and antimicrobial treatment remove mold colonies at the source and stop cross-contamination through the rest of the home. Mold remediation removes affected porous materials and corrects the moisture source that allowed growth. The work is done under containment with HEPA filtration so spores are not carried into unaffected rooms, and the area is cleared only once the underlying moisture problem has been resolved.
Remediation is the step after the assessment, not before it. A local pro establishes how far the growth extends and what is feeding it, because removing what is visible while the moisture source is still running puts the same colony back in the same wall. Texas and several other states also set a square-footage point above which the work has to be done by a licensed remediator — the service note below covers where that line falls in this city.
Every pro in our network is licensed and insured in Georgia.
Frequently asked questions
Marietta sits on Kennesaw granite. Is this the same Piedmont crawl?
Marietta's water is Noonday Creek off a mountain knoll. This water is Yellow River headwaters on Gwinnett clay. August fails here as pad-to-pad sheetflow toward a fork that is still a ditch, not as a mountain dump. The physiographic province is shared; the stream is not.
The house is on a ridge above the Yellow. Still a river job?
As flood, no. As the only grade, yes. Residual clay will not take August rain, so the ridge sheds into the next swale, and the first crawl in the way is the one that wets. Being above the named river is not the same as being off the clay.
A 1988 crawl smelled musty after August but the yard drained. Where is the water?
Against the uphill wall and in the clay. The yard can look dry while the cut still weeps. August's 5.05 inches is enough to load that face for days. Closing the vents then traps what the clay is still adding.