Northern Liberties sits between Fishtown and Old City, from the Delaware waterfront to about Sixth Street, and it mixes 1800s brick rowhouses and converted factories with some of the densest new construction in the city, including the townhouse and apartment blocks around the Piazza and Liberties Walk. The Cohocksink Creek once ran through the neighborhood and is now a sewer under the streets.
This line puts Northern Liberties homeowners through to an independent local mold provider. That provider meters the walls, writes the scope, and does the work. We only make the connection.
That buried creek still shapes the basements. The Philadelphia Water Department lists Northern Liberties among the low-lying areas where combined sewers back up most during heavy rain, and the floor drain in a rowhouse cellar near the old creek line is the first place storm water appears. Above grade, the older houses have flat roofs on one drain box, and the new ones have roof decks and parapets whose flashing is the weak point.
A cellar that took sewer water through the floor drain is whole-home mold remediation when it has reached the first floor and mold removal when it has not. A bathroom ceiling under a roof deck that stays wet is black mold removal. A musty smell with nothing visible in a converted factory loft is mold odor removal.
The Northern Liberties Neighbors Association follows development and infrastructure in the neighborhood, including the stormwater projects meant to keep the Cohocksink sewer from backing into basements.
Call (215) 600-0376 and describe the water and the growth. We put you through to an independent local mold provider serving Northern Liberties.
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.