West Philadelphia west of 50th Street, from Cedar Park and Spruce Hill out through Cobbs Creek, Carroll Park, and Haddington, was built between the 1880s and the 1920s as the streetcar lines pushed out from Center City. The houses are three-story Victorian twins and porch-front rowhouses on the older streets near Baltimore Avenue, two-story brick rows farther west, nearly all on rubble-stone foundations, with flat or shallow-pitched roofs draining to a box or a gutter line shared with the neighbor.
Owners in West Philadelphia 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.
Cobbs Creek marks the western edge of the neighborhood and the city, and the parkland along it floods in a major storm. The housing itself grows mold the Philadelphia way: a stone cellar wall weeping behind 1970s paneling, a party wall carrying the neighbor's roof leak, a cast-iron drain stack rusted through behind a bathroom wall, and a combined sewer that sends storm water up the floor drain.
A finished cellar wall over stone that reads wet is mold removal. A ceiling that grows a film every winter in a second-floor bath with no fan is bathroom mold removal. A basement that took sewer water and reached the first floor is whole-home mold remediation.
The University of Pennsylvania sits at the eastern edge of the neighborhood, and many of the twins and rowhouses between 40th and 50th were built for the faculty and clerks who walked to it.
Call (215) 600-0376 and describe the water and the growth. We put you through to an independent local mold provider serving West Philadelphia.
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.