Mold Removal in East Falls, PA
East Falls sits where the Schuylkill bends below the Wissahickon, between Kelly Drive and the Jefferson campus on the hill, with Ridge Avenue and Midvale Avenue as its main streets. The housing is 1890s through 1920s stone and brick rowhouses and twins on the slope, a few blocks of 1920s stone singles toward Germantown, and newer townhouses on the old industrial ground along the river.
A call from East Falls 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.
Kelly Drive went under on September 1, 2021, when the remnants of Hurricane Ida put the Schuylkill over its banks from Boathouse Row to the Falls Bridge, and the ground floors nearest the river took water. Above the drive, the slope is the issue: groundwater moving downhill through a stone foundation into a basement that is deep on the uphill side, plus the flat-roof drain boxes and party walls every Philadelphia rowhouse has.
East Falls mold removal between the river and the ridge
A riverside ground floor that was pumped out after Ida and never opened up is whole-home mold remediation. A stone cellar wall on the uphill side that stays wet is mold removal. A second-floor bathroom ceiling that films over every winter in a house with no fan is bathroom mold removal.
The park that lines the river here
Kelly Drive and the riverbank below the neighborhood are part of Fairmount Park, and the Fairmount Park Conservancy leads the nonprofit side of restoring the trails and landings that Ida tore up.
Call (215) 600-0376 and tell us what you see. We put you through to a local mold provider serving East Falls.
Services Available in East Falls
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.