Assessed First
Mold Removal & Remediation in Fort Collins, CO
Containment, HEPA filtration, and antimicrobial treatment remove mold colonies at the source and stop cross-contamination through the rest of the home. Mold remediation removes affected porous materials and corrects the moisture source that allowed growth. The work is done under containment with HEPA filtration so spores are not carried into unaffected rooms, and the area is cleared only once the underlying moisture problem has been resolved.
Remediation is the step after the assessment, not before it. A local pro establishes how far the growth extends and what is feeding it, because removing what is visible while the moisture source is still running puts the same colony back in the same wall. Texas and several other states also set a square-footage point above which the work has to be done by a licensed remediator — the service note below covers where that line falls in this city.
Every pro in our network is licensed and insured in Colorado.
Frequently asked questions
Sixteen inches a year. Why is May the month basements here actually move?
Because May is melt plus rain on the Poudre's schedule. The annual total is small, but a large share of it arrives as water already in the channel and in the alluvium, plus whatever the hogbacks shed. The gauge in town is a poor account of what the ground is doing.
The 2013 water went down streets that look fine now. Is that still the path?
Yes. The Poudre has not moved. A 1992-median basement on that path is still the low opening, and a smaller May peak will use the same streets even if it never makes the national news again. The map of the last flood is the map of the next one.
We are on the hogback, well above the Poudre. Out of it?
Out of the channel, not out of May. A hogback lot is a steep catchment, and melt plus rain run to the uphill wall in minutes. You trade a river problem for a grading and retaining problem, which is the other half of this town's May.