Animals, Not Insects
Mold in Atlanta Homes
Not every water problem is a water problem by the time a crew gets there. In Atlanta's humid summers, a wet wall or crawl space under Ansley Park or Grant Park can start growing mold in a day or two if it sits, and at that point drying alone stops being the whole job.
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Some jobs turn out to need wildlife exclusion instead of drying equipment, especially in older crawl spaces off Virginia-Highland or Grant Park where an animal found its way in before the water did. When that's the situation, the technician tells you plainly and points you toward the right kind of help rather than treating an animal problem as a moisture problem.
Questions & Answers
Frequently Asked Questions
Is mold removal the same job as water damage restoration?
No, and the difference is the reason it costs more. An insect treatment is a product applied to the right place. A mold job is an animal removed, a hole in the building closed with materials it cannot chew through, and usually a mess cleaned up in an attic or crawl space afterwards. It is closer to a small repair job with an animal in the middle of it.
Do you have to kill the animal?
Usually not major demolition, and it is rarely the best answer anyway. Most jobs here are extraction and drying: the water is removed and the structure is dried in place, then any damaged material is addressed. The exception is active mold growth, where drying without remediation just seals the problem inside the wall, so timing matters more than speed.
Why does sealing the hole matter more than catching the animal?
Because the hole is what the next animal finds. A route into a soffit or under a shed has been used before and smells of use, so removing the current occupant without closing the entry just books you a repeat visit. There is nothing in a building code that requires a house to be squirrel-proof, which is exactly why so many houses are not.
Are there times of year when this work cannot be done?
Yes, for some species. Bats in GA cannot be excluded during the summer maternity season because it seals flightless young inside, and other animals raising young in a structure need the same consideration for the same practical reason. That means a bat job is sometimes booked for August rather than done this week, and anyone who offers to seal a live roost in June is telling you something about how they work.
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A house that's taken on water, whether from a burst pipe near Inman Park or storm runoff pooling against a foundation in Grant Park, sometimes ends up dealing with more than just drying out afterward. Damaged, damp materials don't always stay untouched once they've been sitting for a while. If that's part of what you're facing, call and describe it, and the licensed pros we connect you with can address the water damage itself first.
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