Mold Removal in Shingle Springs, CA

Shingle Springs lies around 1,400 feet on Highway 50, in the oak belt between Cameron Park and Placerville, and much of it is ranchettes: a few acres, a barn or a shop, and a house from somewhere in the seventies through the nineties. Those houses tend to sit on crawl spaces with vents low to the ground, and on a sloped lot the uphill vents take runoff every wet winter. Warm floors over a damp crawl space show up first as a smell in the hall closet and a cupped board near the back door.

Water here comes from El Dorado Irrigation District lines, and the district meter is the tool for a leak you cannot see. If the numbers move with every tap off, water is going somewhere under the house or inside a wall. When you call us, we send the job to one independent provider who works Shingle Springs and the towns on either side; we make the introduction and step back.

The ranchette crawl space in Shingle Springs

A crawl space that has stayed wet for a season leaves growth on the joists, the subfloor, and the insulation hung between them, and the smell finds its way up through every floor register. Mold odor removal begins under the house, with the vents and the grading, and only then moves to what has to come out. When a water heater in the garage lets go over a holiday weekend and the water reaches three rooms, whole-home mold remediation is the right page. Ducts that run through that same crawl space carry the smell into the bedrooms, and HVAC mold cleaning deals with the ductwork and the air handler together.

Is the water bill hinting at a leak?

The El Dorado Irrigation District bills by the meter, so a jump in use with nothing new running is a leak until proven otherwise. On a ranchette the line from the meter to the house can be a few hundred feet of old pipe, and a break out in the pasture only floods the yard. A break under the slab or inside the wall is the one that feeds mold. Shut the valve at the house and watch whether the meter stops.

Pick up the phone and dial (209) 764-2249; tell us what the meter did with everything off. That number decides whether the crew brings a plumber along.