Philadelphia Mold Removal exists because mold in this city hides where a crew from a newer suburb would not look: behind the paneling on a rubble-stone cellar wall, inside the party wall where the neighbor's roof drains, above the kitchen ceiling of a 1900 rear addition. When you call, we put you through to one independent local provider who handles mold removal and remediation in Philadelphia and the towns just across the county line. The provider inspects the house, lays out the scope, and performs the work, and whatever you agree to on price or warranty is between the two of you.
A flat rowhouse roof drains to one box, and when leaves block it the roof ponds and the water finds the parapet seam. A party wall is one thickness of brick shared by two houses, so a leak next door stains your side. A stone foundation from the 1890s breathes ground moisture through every joint, and a combined sewer sends storm water back up the floor drain when the street pipe is full. Each keeps a different part of the house wet, and the provider's first job is to name which one it was.
The provider walks the basement and the floors above it with a moisture meter, and often a thermal camera, and marks how far the water traveled inside each wall and along each joist. That mark, not the stain, sets how much plaster, drywall, or paneling comes out. Containment goes up before a single cut. One visit tells you what it needs.
We cover the river wards from Fishtown to Frankford, South Philadelphia and Graduate Hospital, University City and West Philadelphia, the Northwest from Manayunk to Chestnut Hill, Olney and the Northeast from Mayfair to Fox Chase, and Upper Darby, Darby, Yeadon, Cheltenham, Jenkintown, Bala Cynwyd, Conshohocken, and Bensalem just outside the city. The full list is on our areas page.
Pennsylvania does not license mold assessors or remediators. It does require home improvement contractors to register with the Attorney General under the Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act and print a PA registration number on contracts and estimates. You can look a company up in the Attorney General's contractor registration search in a minute. Ask for the certificate of insurance and the written scope before anyone opens a wall. Should a buyer, a landlord, or an insurer want lab numbers, you hire an assessor for that on your own; the providers reached here do removal.
The city has no mold regulation of its own, and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health does not inspect for it; a tenant with a leaking roof or a cracked wall reports the structural problem to Philly 311 instead. If the house is on the city's historic register, exterior repairs such as roofing, cornice, or parapet work that stop the leak may need a review by the Philadelphia Historical Commission before the permit issues; interior removal does not.
Call (215) 600-0376. Have the property address, a number where you can be reached, and a plain description of whether the water came through the roof, the party wall, the foundation, or the floor drain, and where the growth is showing now.