Graduate Hospital is the neighborhood between South Street and Washington Avenue west of Broad, named for the hospital at 18th and Lombard that is now part of Penn Medicine. The housing is 1870s through 1900s brick rowhouses, two and three stories, with a wave of new three- and four-story builds and roof decks since the 2000s, and a lot of older houses that were gutted and refinished for sale.
A call from Graduate Hospital 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 mold calls split the same way the housing does. In the old houses it is a rubble foundation that weeps, a flat roof on one drain box, and a party wall that carries the neighbor's leak. In the new and renovated ones it is a roof deck whose scuppers clog, a stucco party wall that was never flashed into the old brick next door, and a basement finished tight to a damp wall. The neighborhood sits on the combined sewer, and the Water Department counts the low blocks toward the Schuylkill among the ones that back up in a hard rain.
Soft plaster or dark drywall on a party wall is mold removal, and the crew asks about the neighbor's roof and bathroom. A top-floor ceiling under a roof deck that stays dark is black mold removal. A basement that took sewer water in a storm and reached the first floor is whole-home mold remediation.
The former Graduate Hospital campus at 18th and Lombard is now Penn Medicine Rittenhouse, and the blocks around it hold some of the oldest standing rowhouses in the neighborhood.
Call (215) 600-0376 and describe the water and the growth. We put you through to an independent local mold provider serving Graduate Hospital.
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.