Basement Mold Removal

A wet basement can be a major cause for mold in your home. Basement mold removal can be a simple fix or a very involved fix. Left unattended basement mold can lead to black mold spores being dispersed throughout your whole house.

Basement mold removal can be caused by a faulty dryer vent in the basement or it can be caused by leaks seeping through your foundation. Fixing a faulty dryer vent is one of the easy fixes. Often dryer vents will become plugged with lint and not allow the moisture from the clothes dryer to vent the moisture out of your house. If you notice more moisture in your basement during the summer months, than more than likely the culprit is a dryer vent. Mildew build up and sets the conditions for mold to form.

However if you are seeing seepage coming down your basement walls than you may have bigger issues with your foundation. The biggest culprit in creating mold in basements and water seepage is usually your roof gutters. If your roof gutters are not operating correctly than the water runs into your foundation down into the cracks and leaks into the basement walls. Mold removal begins with getting the basement dry.

Clean out your gutters and check to see that the downspouts are caring the water away from your house foundation. Sometimes you may need to add a downspout extension to ensure that the water from your roof is being carried far enough away from the foundation as to run off away from your foundation.

If the water from your downspouts continue to run into your foundation you may then have to change the grade of the soil around your foundation to slope away from the foundation.

Once you have solved the problem of a wet basement and future conditions of promoting mold growth, then it is time to get rid of the mold that is already present in your basement.