Arlington, Shelby County
Mold Removal & Remediation in Arlington, Tennessee
The older fabric clusters around the Rachel H.K. Burrows Museum. Arlington, Shelby County, and what that does to a mold removal & remediation job.
Call (901) 459-6565 The regional mold removal & remediation pages
- Service
- Mold removal
- Held at
- ZIP code 38002
- County
- Shelby
Mold coverage is the thinnest of the three across this region, so the table below is worth reading before any of the prose.
Big Creek runs through the low ground here on its way to the Loosahatchie, and the newer subdivisions sit on graded pads above bottomland that was in cultivation twenty years ago. Made ground holds water at the slab underside, and where crawl spaces were built they were built sealed rather than vented, which is the better detail in this climate but only when the space is also conditioned or dehumidified. A sealed crawl with no air movement and no dehumidifier is a closed box over damp ground. It reads high on a meter within a year.
The Loosahatchie is sixty-four miles long and has been channelized along almost all of it. A straightened channel moves a rainfall event downstream fast, which is why the river itself is rarely the story on a call from here. What a channelized river does instead is drop quickly and leave the bottomland beside it saturated, with a water table that stays high under the adjacent ground for weeks after the gauge has fallen. Houses built up over that ground carry the consequence in their crawl spaces rather than in their yards.
The purchase reaches ZIP code 38002, the full set the site holds for this place. For the rebuild, the office to call is the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Construction Code Enforcement. For the drying, in most cases nobody.
What decides this job at this address
- Mold removal purchased at
- 38002
- Water and sewer
- Memphis Light, Gas and Water, according to the available records
- Humidity ceiling the EPA sets
- 60 percent indoor relative humidity
- Nearest named water
- the Loosahatchie River and Big Creek
- Road distance
- 25 miles from Memphis
- Permit issued by
- the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Construction Code Enforcement
The measurement on a call from here is of the space rather than of a stain. A hygrometer and a data logger left in a sealed crawl overnight answer more than a visual inspection does, and the reading that matters is the one at four in the morning rather than at noon. If the crawl is sealed and unconditioned, the correction is usually a dehumidifier on a condensate drain and a sealed ground cover instead of demolition. Where wallboard, batt insulation or particleboard has already been wet and colonized, it comes out past the visible edge and leaves the building bagged.
What the building stock here does
New houses in this town are tight, and tightness moves the moisture problem rather than removing it. Attic air handlers on a hot roof deck sweat at the plenum and drip onto the ceiling below, producing a stain that reads like a roof leak. Bath exhaust fans terminating in the attic instead of through the roof put a shower's worth of water into blown insulation twice a day. Neither is a plumbing failure and neither shows on a water bill, which is why they run for years before anybody calls.
The source of the water is identified and stopped, or confirmed already stopped, before a single air mover is switched on.
Mold removal work by type
None of the pages below is about Arlington and none of them pretends to be. They are the technical half of the answer.
Also at this address
- Water damage in ArlingtonTwenty-three square miles here drain to the Loosahatchie River and to Big Creek, on the northeastern edge of the county where farmland still sits between the subdivisions.
- Fire damage in ArlingtonThe old Haysville core, incorporated in 1878 and re-incorporated under the present name in December 1900, is a few blocks of nineteenth and early twentieth century fabric around the S.Y.
- Everything covered in ArlingtonThe town page: what is held here, the utilities, the permit office and what is on the record.
Before you call
Two area codes cover this region and roughly a hundred and forty road miles separate its ends. Ringing the desk that already covers your ground saves being handed along twice.
Crawl spaces in this region run humid every July, and a damp-looking crawl space in high summer is not on its own evidence that something has gone wrong.