Olney is the North Philadelphia neighborhood around Olney Avenue and Fifth Street, between Logan and Lawncrest, with Tacony Creek Park on its eastern edge. The housing is 1920s and 1930s two-story brick rowhouses, many with front porches and a few with garages under the back, on poured-concrete or early block foundations with flat roofs draining to one box.
A call from Olney goes to an independent local mold provider who reads the house with a meter before saying what comes out. We connect the call; the provider does the rest.
Olney's low side slopes toward Tacony Creek, and the combined sewer there backs up in a hard storm. The rest is the Philadelphia rowhouse set: a basement wall that sweats behind paneling, a party wall carrying the neighbor's roof leak, a second-floor bathroom with no fan over the kitchen, and a shared flat roof whose drain box has not been cleared in years. The rows with a garage under the back have a driveway that slopes to the garage door, and a clogged drain at the bottom sends every hard rain into the basement.
A finished basement wall that reads wet is mold removal. A ceiling film in a bathroom with no fan is bathroom mold removal. A basement that took sewer water through the floor drain and reached the first floor is whole-home mold remediation. Growth on the wall nearest the garage after a storm is the driveway drain's doing, and the crew checks it while they are there.
La Salle University occupies the neighborhood's western edge at 20th Street and Olney Avenue, and the rows around it hold a mix of long-time owners and student rentals whose landlords call about the same bathrooms every few years.
Call (215) 600-0376 and tell us what you see. We put you through to a local mold provider serving Olney.
Growth on plaster or drywall after a party-wall leak, a stone-foundation seep, or a radiator pipe: room sealed, wet material cut to the meter line, framing HEPA-cleaned and dried.
A dark patch on a basement wall or bathroom ceiling handled by how far the water traveled, not its color: containment, porous material out, hard surfaces cleaned, source fixed.
A sewer backup that filled the basement or a flat-roof leak that ran down three floors, mapped floor by floor and cleared in zones as one project.
Coil, drain pan, and condensate line cleaned or replaced when a basement or closet air handler sweats through a humid Philadelphia summer.
Growth behind a vanity, under a tile shower, or on a ceiling with no exhaust fan in a rowhouse second-floor bath, removed with the leak fixed first.
Growth on rafters and sheathing under a flat roof or a twin's slate roof, cleaned and treated once the roofing or the ventilation is corrected.
A musty smell in a rowhouse that looks fine, traced to a wet stone wall, a damp joist end, or the dirt under an old cellar floor, then removed and treated.
Plaster, drywall, baseboard, and subfloor put back after removal, once the basement reads dry and the roof, pipe, or drain that caused it is repaired.