Collierville, Shelby County
Mold Removal & Remediation in Collierville, Tennessee
What mold removal & remediation means at a Collierville address: the ground drains toward Nonconnah Creek and the Wolf River.
Call (901) 459-6565 The mold removal & remediation method
- Service
- Mold removal
- Held at
- ZIP code 38017
- County
- Shelby
The desk taking this call is set by county, and it will tell you early whether the work is bought at your address.
The Wolf River Restoration Project reach runs along the northern edge of town, and the bottomland it occupies is the lowest and wettest ground for several miles. Subdivisions built up to that edge sit on pads above a floodplain with a water table close to the surface. A crawl space on a lot like that stays cool and damp through a summer even when nothing is leaking, and the vents meant to dry it out are the mechanism that wets it. Warm outdoor air entering a cool crawl gives up its water on the first joist it touches.
Shelby is one of only nine counties in Tennessee that adopted the Home Improvement licensing law, covering residential work from three thousand dollars up to twenty-four thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine. A crawl space closed and lined, a wall of wallboard replaced and a dehumidifier installed can land squarely inside that band. Above twenty-five thousand the state contractor's license applies as it does everywhere in Tennessee. Both are searchable at verify.tn.gov, and checking is quick enough that there is no good reason not to, particularly after a regional storm brings out-of-area trucks into the county.
Held at ZIP code 38017, meaning everywhere this site has coverage in the town. Anything past the mitigation stage puts the job in front of the Town of Collierville, which runs its own building and codes department.
What decides this job at this address
- Mold removal purchased at
- 38017
- Water and sewer
- the Collierville Public Utilities Division, which runs water and wastewater and no other service
- Humidity ceiling the EPA sets
- 60 percent indoor relative humidity
- Nearest named water
- Nonconnah Creek and the Wolf River
- Road distance
- 25 miles from Memphis
- Permit issued by
- the Town of Collierville
Given that, the scope on these jobs is written to be checkable rather than persuasive. The moisture source is named and a repair attached to it before any growth is touched, whether that is a crawl to be closed and lined, a bath exhaust fan terminating in an attic instead of through the roof, or a leaking angle stop behind a cabinet. Porous material that has been wet and colonized, meaning wallboard, batt insulation, carpet pad and particleboard, comes out to a straight cut past the visible edge. Framing, masonry and sheathing are cleaned in place by physical removal rather than coated over.
What the building stock here does
Houses built between 1985 and 2010 here are large, tightly built and heavily conditioned, which is a good combination until something interrupts the conditioning. Bonus rooms over garages sit above unconditioned space with an air handler beside them and are the most common single location for a call. Basements are not a factor anywhere in this county, so the failures are crawl spaces, slab edges and attics. On the square the older buildings show it at the base of masonry walls, where a modern floor finish was laid over a floor that was never meant to be sealed.
Smoke residue is mapped room by room before cleaning starts, because a building can be heavily affected on one floor and barely touched on another.
Mold removal work by type
Because the technical side of mold removal is identical throughout the region, the pages below are shared, and Collierville supplies only the local context above them.
Also at this address
- Water damage in ColliervilleNonconnah Creek rises in the southeastern corner of the county near here and runs west from this point, so the town sits at the top of that watershed rather than at the bottom of it.
- Fire damage in ColliervilleDowntown here is a listed historic district on the National Register, built around a square of commercial buildings that share party walls and have been altered repeatedly since the town was rechartered on 17 February 1870.
- Everything covered in ColliervilleThe town page: what is held here, the utilities, the permit office and what is on the record.
Before you call
Have a rough idea of square footage; pace the room out if you have to. Equipment counts are calculated from area and air volume, and a guess at the door beats no number at all.
A sample tells you what is in the air on the day it was taken. It rarely tells you anything that changes what has to be done to the building.