Mold Removal in Port Richmond, PA
Port Richmond runs along the Delaware north of Fishtown, from Lehigh Avenue up to the Betsy Ross Bridge approaches, with Allegheny and Richmond as its main streets. The housing is two-story brick rowhouses from the 1880s through the 1920s built for the workers at the Reading Railroad's coal piers and the riverfront factories, on rubble foundations with flat roofs draining to one box, and a rear kitchen addition on most of them.
A call from Port Richmond 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.
The Water Department names Port Richmond among the low-lying neighborhoods where combined sewers back up most in heavy rain, and the floor drain in a rowhouse cellar near the river is where storm water shows up first. The rest is the rowhouse standard: a stone cellar wall weeping behind paneling, a party wall carrying the neighbor's roof leak, and a bathroom over the kitchen with no fan.
Port Richmond mold removal after the storm and between them
A cellar that took sewer water through the floor drain is whole-home mold remediation if it reached the first floor and mold removal if it stayed below. A ceiling film in a second-floor bath with no fan is bathroom mold removal. Putting the basement back so the next storm does less damage is mold damage repair.
Before the crew arrives
Stop using the floor drain for anything, keep the furnace off until someone has looked at it if the water reached the burner, and photograph the high-water line. Ask the Water Department about a backwater valve through its Basement Protection Program; the crew will ask whether one is in.
Call (215) 600-0376 and describe the water and the growth. We put you through to an independent local mold provider serving Port Richmond.
Services Available in Port Richmond
Mold Removal
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.
Black Mold Removal
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.
Whole-Home Mold Remediation
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.
HVAC Mold Cleaning
Coil, drain pan, and condensate line cleaned or replaced when a basement or closet air handler sweats through a humid Philadelphia summer.
Bathroom Mold Removal
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.
Attic Mold Remediation
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.
Mold Odor Removal
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.
Mold Damage Repair
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.