Assessed First
Mold Removal & Remediation in Dickinson, ND
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 North Dakota.
Frequently asked questions
Nineteen inches a year. Why would a basement here move at all?
Because the soil and the freeze do the work the rain total does not. Pierre shale changes volume with small wettings, and a long freeze heaves the same wall for months. June then wets the shale just as the frost leaves, so one modest month undoes a winter of movement and starts a new one.
The addition is from the oil boom and the original house is not. Why is the old basement wetter?
Fill. Boom additions often sit on imported material that drains toward the older footing, so the original basement becomes the low point of a lot that used to shed away from it. The new rooms can be dry while the 1970s wall takes water the addition redirected.
Hail and rain in the same cell. Which one opens the roof?
Usually the hail, with the rain as the test. Hail strips granules and bruises the mat without making a hole you can see from the ground, and the rain immediately behind it uses whatever that opened. The leak may wait a season, which is why the connection to the storm is easy to miss.