Whole-Home Mold Remediation in Metairie, LA
Some houses don’t have a mold spot. They have mold. Water came in through the whole ground floor, or a leak ran unnoticed under a slab for a year, or the house sat closed with the power off through a hot September and every soft surface in it grew. That is a different job from a bathroom wall, and it needs a plan instead of a patch. Call and tell us how far it goes.
How a whole-home job differs
Order of work. Rooms get contained and worked one after another so the finished ones stay clean while the rest are opened. Everything wet and porous comes out — drywall to a set height, insulation, carpet and pad, cabinets that soaked up water, the bottom of the doors. The framing is cleaned and left open to dry, and nothing closes until the wood is under 20 percent moisture. The HVAC gets its own look, because EPA says a contaminated system can spread mold through the whole house, and a whole-home job with the ducts left alone is not finished.
What to document after a sudden water event
- Photos of where the water came from, how high it got, and every room it reached, before anything is thrown out.
- The date it happened and the date it was stopped — knowing when makes the insurance conversation and the removal plan both easier.
- A list of what was discarded: carpet, furniture, cabinets, appliances.
- Louisiana humidity means a house that got wet in a storm and sat for a week is a house where growth has already started.
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Katrina, Ida, and the houses in between
The 17th Street Canal breach put water into the east side of Metairie in 2005 — Bucktown, the low blocks of Old Metairie, the streets along the canal — and CDC found visible mold in 45 percent of the New Orleans-area homes it looked at afterward. Most of those houses were gutted to the studs and rebuilt. Some were dried and closed. Ida in 2021 didn’t flood the parish the same way, but it put roofs and water into a lot of attics on both banks and left houses without power in the heat for two weeks. If a house has never smelled right since either one, that is a reason to call.
Insurance, without promises
We don’t know what your policy will pay, and we won’t guess. Homeowners policies generally cover mold that follows a sudden covered event and exclude mold from long-term leaks or neglect, and flood damage is excluded from them entirely. The National Flood Insurance Program excludes mold that could have been avoided by the owner, so speed matters. What we do is photograph, log, and itemize every room so your adjuster has a full record, and give you the written report Louisiana requires. If you are in a claim now, tell us when you call.
