You can’t see anything. That’s the problem. The guest room smells like a wet towel, the smell gets stronger after rain and worse when the AC starts, and you’ve pulled the furniture out and washed the walls and it’s still there. You smelled it before you saw it, and you may never see it without opening something. Call and tell us where you smell it. We handle mold odor in Gulfport and along the western Mississippi coast by finding the material behind the smell and removing it.
CDC says a musty smell is reason enough to act — you don’t need visible growth to have a moisture problem that’s feeding it. The smell is coming off something wet and porous that you can’t see: the back of the drywall, the insulation in a wall cavity, the underside of a subfloor, the liner of a duct, the pad under a carpet, the particleboard floor of a cabinet. We track it by what you can observe — where it’s strongest, when it changes, what got wet in that part of the house — and then by moisture readings on the wall and floor. Then we open the spot and find the material.
Once the material is found, the job is the same as any other removal. The area gets sealed and put under negative pressure. The wet drywall, insulation, pad, or cabinet floor comes out and is bagged inside the containment. The framing gets cleaned in place, HEPA-vacuumed, and dried. We don’t spray anything to cover a smell and we don’t run anything that masks it; the smell leaves when the material does. Then we tell you what has to change for the spot to stay dry.
The smell calls on this coast follow the weather and the calendar. A beach house or a parent’s place in Bayou View that sat closed through the summer and hits you at the door. A slab house in Orange Grove where one back bedroom smells wrong every time it rains. A raised house in Pass Christian where the smell comes up through the floor after a high tide. A house that sat closed through a Gulf Coast summer can smell musty with no leak at all; a house that smells only in one room usually has one. Either way, call and tell us where you smell it.
Standing byDescribe what you see or smell, where it is in the house, and what got wet. If we’re available you’ll be connected right away with the person who does the work. If we’re on a job, you’ll get a scheduled callback, and we’ll tell you which number to watch for so you know it’s us.
The work area sealed and put under negative pressure, wet drywall, trim, and insulation bagged and out of the house, framing cleaned and dried before anything gets closed back up. The job, start to finish.
A dark, slick patch on drywall or a ceiling after a leak that ran for weeks. CDC says the kind of mold doesn’t change what happens next: the wet material comes out, and the water behind it has to stop.
A house that took surge, a roof that leaked through a whole season, or a place that sat shut and damp for a year. Room-by-room containment and removal on one plan, with one written report at the end.