French Settlement runs along Highway 16 on the east bank of the Amite south of Port Vincent, an old Creole and French community where the houses were raised long before anyone required it. The Amite and the Diversion Canal come up with every wet season, and Lake Maurepas pushes backwater up the river when a hurricane comes through. Older raised houses and river camps sit next to newer slab homes on the higher lots, and both kinds took water in August 2016.
We remove mold in French Settlement. Call and tell us what you see or smell and what got wet.
A raised house with a musty smell coming through the floor and wet insulation hanging under it is crawl space mold remediation. A camp or house that took water and has a stain returning along the lower wall is mold removal, or across several rooms, whole-home mold remediation.
Tell us whether the house is raised, how high the water got, and what you see now. Removal and remediation only — we don’t test.
Found growth in French Settlement? Call and tell us where.
Growth in more than one room — a house that took water in 2016 and was closed up fast, a roof that leaked all summer, a place that sat empty with the AC off. One plan, sealed and worked room by room.
Dark streaks on the roof deck, a stained ceiling under it, a bathroom fan blowing into the attic, an air handler sweating on its platform. Cleaned in place with the attic sealed off from the rooms below.
The ceiling above the tub, the wall behind the toilet, the floor of the vanity cabinet. Wet every day, and the removal that holds once the water is under control.
A musty smell that shows up when the air conditioner starts. Growth at the coil, in the plenum, or in wet flex duct — cleaned or replaced so the system stops moving it around the house.
Raised houses and camps along the Amite, Tickfaw, and Lake Maurepas hold damp air under the floor for months. Joists and subfloor cleaned, wet insulation out, and the space set up to dry.
The smell is coming from somewhere. We find the growth behind it and remove it, rather than masking it with a plug-in or a fresh coat of paint.
Work area sealed, air kept under negative pressure, wet drywall and insulation out, framing cleaned and dried before the wall closes. Written report at the end.
A dark patch on drywall or a ceiling gets removed the same careful way as any other color of mold. What changes the job is the water behind it, not the shade.