Mold in Alachua County is usually a story about an empty building in July. Student rentals shut for the summer, a thermostat set to 82 to save money, an air conditioner that never runs long enough to dehumidify, and a condensate line that blocked in June — that combination will grow something in almost any building. The older wood-frame houses near downtown have their own version, where the moisture is coming up out of a crawl space rather than down from the ceiling.
- Source first — air handler, condensate line, crawl space or roof, before any removal
- Containment and negative air, which matters even more in a shared building
- Removal of contaminated porous material and HEPA cleaning of everything that stays
- Clearance testing by an independent assessor where the situation calls for it, never graded by us
Alachua County sits on covered karst — a limestone shelf under a thin skin of sand and clay, the same geology that opened the Devil’s Millhopper and that drains a large part of the county down through Paynes Prairie rather than out to a river. What that means for a wet building is that stormwater does not run off, it goes down, and a heavy afternoon cell can leave water sitting against a slab in Jonesville or Haile Plantation long after the rain has stopped. Nothing here has a basement either, so a failed supply line spreads flat and fast. Add a rental market where thousands of duplexes and 1970s apartments turn over every August, and a good share of what we dry began as a slow leak nobody was home to notice.
Crews dispatch 24/7 from our Gainesville base at 1126 NW 2nd St, Ste C and cover all of Gainesville — one local team, no subcontracted call centers. See all services in Gainesville or read more about mold remediation.
Ring (352) 415-8987 before the turnover date rather than after it. A contained remediation in an empty unit is a straightforward job; the same work around a tenant who has already moved in is not.
