Mold Removal in Mayfair, PA
Mayfair is the heart of the Near Northeast along Frankford Avenue and Cottman Avenue, built almost entirely between 1940 and 1955 as blocks of two-story brick rowhouses with front lawns, awnings, and a garage under the house at the back. The rows are "airlite" houses, with a skylight over the stair and a bathroom in the middle of the second floor that has no window, only a fan.
Owners in Mayfair reach an independent local mold provider through the phone number on this site. That provider walks the house with a meter and says what it needs. Our part is the call.
That windowless bathroom is Mayfair's mold pattern. The fan ducts up through the roof, and after seventy years the duct has often separated or the fan has stopped moving air, so every shower condenses on the ceiling. The basement is a shallow poured-concrete box with a garage door at the rear and a driveway sloping toward it, so a clogged drain at the bottom of the driveway sends rain under the door. Pennypack Park bounds the neighborhood to the north, and the lowest streets near the creek see water in a major storm.
Mayfair mold removal in a 1950s airlite row
A ceiling film in the middle bathroom is bathroom mold removal, and the fan duct gets fixed with it. Growth on the basement wall nearest the garage after a storm is mold removal, and the crew looks at the driveway drain. A musty smell when the central air starts is HVAC mold cleaning at the coil over the furnace.
What to check before the crew comes
Run the bathroom fan and hold a tissue to it; if it does not pull, say so when you call. Look at the drain at the bottom of the driveway and clear the leaves. Photograph the ceiling and the basement wall.
Call (215) 600-0376 and describe the water and the growth. We put you through to an independent local mold provider serving Mayfair.
Services Available in Mayfair
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.