Lakeland, Shelby County
Mold Removal & Remediation in Lakeland, Tennessee
The older fabric clusters around Garner Lake, so mold removal & remediation here is planned from the ground and the plumbing outward. Lakeland, Shelby County.
Call (901) 459-6565 The mold removal & remediation method
- Service
- Mold removal
- Held at
- ZIP code 38002
- County
- Shelby
A written scope comes before any demolition, and it names what comes out, what is cleaned and what the building has to do differently.
Drainage across these twenty-three square miles falls toward Garner Lake and, beyond it, the Loosahatchie, and the crawl spaces that read highest are on the low side of a graded lot rather than the ones nearest the water. A lot cut into a rise and filled on the downhill side leaves the foundation vents on that side sitting nearly at grade, sometimes below the level of the bed in front of them. Air does not move through a vent that is half buried. The space behind it holds whatever comes up out of the ground underneath.
Sewer here is the city's and water is MLGW's, the reverse of the arrangement across most of the county, and that produces a specific confusion on these jobs. A slow sewer problem, whether a leaking cleanout, a lift line or a saturated drain field on an older parcel, reads in a crawl space exactly like a groundwater problem. The office that can check it is not the office that reads the water meter. Establishing which system is involved decides whether what is under the floor is clean, and that in turn sets how much material leaves the building.
Held at ZIP code 38002, meaning everywhere this site has coverage in the town. The authority for building work here is the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Construction Code Enforcement, whatever a contractor tells you about it over the phone.
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, with the city handling sewer
- Humidity ceiling the EPA sets
- 60 percent indoor relative humidity
- Nearest named water
- Garner Lake and the Loosahatchie River
- Routes through the town
- Interstate 40 and State Route 385
- Road distance
- 20 miles from Memphis
- Permit issued by
- the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Construction Code Enforcement
Work therefore begins with a category question rather than a moisture question. A sample of what is standing or wicking, plus the geometry of where it is worst relative to the sewer line and the vents, usually answers it inside an hour. Where the answer is humidity, the correction is mechanical: close the vents, line the ground and seal the seams, and hold the space with a dehumidifier on a drain. Where the answer is a sewer, nothing is dried until that line is repaired, and the porous material that sat in it leaves the building bagged.
What the building stock here does
One generation of houses means one generation of crawl space details, and the detail that repeats here is a loose ground cover never sealed at the seams or lapped up the wall. That was ordinary practice through the build-out and it works only as long as nothing else goes wrong. Add a shaded vent, a downspout at the wall and a summer, and the same space on the same street reads high in the same month. The correction is repeatable for exactly the reason the failure is.
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
Detail on each type of mold removal job sits at region level, and Lakeland inherits it instead of being handed a copy.
Also at this address
- Water damage in LakelandThe town is built around Garner Lake, and the lots nearest the water sit on ground with a table close enough to the surface to matter.
- Fire damage in LakelandThe street pattern here was shaped by a lake and by an amusement park that ran a three-foot narrow-gauge railway across ground the subdivisions now occupy.
- Everything covered in LakelandThe town page: what is held here, the utilities, the permit office and what is on the record.
Before you call
Take pictures with the timestamp on, then take a second set after the equipment is placed. Insurers argue about the middle of a job far more often than about its beginning.
Containment goes up before demolition, not after, and if it does not, spores that were in one room are now in the whole house.