Assessed First
Mold Removal & Remediation in Pontiac, MI
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 Michigan.
Frequently asked questions
Troy shares this gauge. Why would a Pontiac basement fail differently?
Troy sits on upland till with no outlet. This city sits in the Clinton bowl that till drains into. Same May total, opposite geometry: Troy perches, Pontiac collects. Writing both as flat Oakland clay erases the millponds, the combined sewers, and the valley floor that actually wet these cellars.
The river dropped. Why is the cellar still wet?
The millponds and the combined sewers do not drop as fast as the gauge. Water from the surrounding till is still arriving, and a cellar drain on the valley floor is the overflow. A falling Clinton is not a dry basement if the streets are still emptying into the same pipes.
Is a 1961 house on the valley floor built to drain?
Rarely. That era poured basement walls and trusted a floor drain to the combined sewer. When May rain surcharges those pipes, the drain reverses. The fix is a backflow path and drainage toward the river, not a coating on the inside of a wall that is already below the street.