Mold Remediation in Shreveport, LA

Is it a wipe-down or a mold remediation job?

Some mold is a cleaning job. A few dark marks on tile grout, a window frame that sweats in January, a corner of a closet on an outside wall: if the surface is hard, the area is small, and you know where the damp came from, drying the area out and fixing that cause usually handles it.

It becomes a remediation job when the mold has gone into something soft or porous. Sheetrock, plaster, carpet pad, attic insulation and the underside of old floorboards all hold it, and so does anything inside a duct. In Shreveport the usual signs are a musty smell that rises through the floor when the AC comes on, a stain that keeps coming back on the same ceiling after rain, and dark or soft wood when someone opens the crawl space hatch.

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Mold in the walls: what to do first

If you suspect mold inside a wall, stop the water if you can find it, keep the room shut, and leave the wall alone rather than cutting into it. Opening a wall without containment spreads what is inside through the house. The next step is an independent assessment: moisture mapping finds how far the water went, and sampling answers what is growing if anyone needs to know. Louisiana does not allow one company to both assess and remediate mold on the same property, so the assessor and the remediation crew are always separate. See mold inspection and testing in Shreveport.

How mold remediation is done in a Shreveport house

Closing the area off. Plastic walls go up around the affected rooms with a zip door for the crew. A machine pulls air out of the space through a HEPA filter, keeping the pressure slightly lower than in the rest of the house so loose spores move inward. Supply and return vents inside the area are taped over so the air handler does not pick anything up.

Taking out what cannot be saved. Moldy sheetrock, plaster lath where it has rotted, insulation and carpet pad are cut out, bagged inside the work area and carried out sealed. Framing, joists, sill plates and subfloor are kept wherever they are sound, then brushed or sanded back, vacuumed with filtered equipment and treated.

Getting it dry. Dehumidifiers and fans run until the moisture readings in the wood are back to normal. Under a raised floor that often takes longer than people expect, because the soil below is part of the source.

Final clean and clearance. Every surface inside the plastic is wiped and vacuumed, including the ones that looked fine. On larger jobs the independent assessor takes an air sample inside the work area and one outdoors, and the plastic stays up until the result says the room is clear.

A single room usually takes one to two days, a crawl space two to four days, and a whole air handler and duct job about a week.

Where we find it in Shreveport and Bossier City houses

Under raised floors. Older raised houses sit on piers over clay that holds water. When the vapor barrier on the ground is torn or missing, the joists stay damp through the summer and mold follows. That is crawl space mold removal.

Inside older bathrooms. Original tile over a shower pan that has finally failed, or a supply line that has dripped inside the wall for months. See bathroom mold removal.

After a hard freeze. In February 2021, back-to-back winter storms left most of the city's water customers without service as mains and pipes broke. Pipes in attics and crawl spaces that split in a freeze, and were not dried out quickly, are where mold shows up weeks later. See water damage restoration.

After spring storms. Wind-driven rain gets past old window frames and flashing, and a roof leak can soak attic insulation before anyone sees a stain. See attic mold removal and mold after a flood or leak.

In the air handler. A wet coil or a blocked drain pan grows mold that the system blows into every room. See mold in AC units and ducts.

Mold remediation prices in Shreveport

These are the ranges from jobs priced in the area. A small area under ten square feet runs $500 to $1,500. A single room is $1,500 to $4,500. In a crawl space, cleaning and treating the joists runs $2,500 to $6,500, or $6,000 to $15,000 when the crawl space is fully encapsulated. Attics run $2,500 to $8,000 and a whole-house HVAC job $6,000 to $20,000. The independent clearance test at the end is typically $200 to $450. Putting the sheetrock and paint back afterwards is priced separately. The full breakdown is on the mold removal cost page.

Prices on this page are estimates from previous work. We cannot quote an exact price. The actual cost can be lower or higher depending on the job. The person who knows is the professional who will do the work. You get a written quote after we see the house.

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Booking mold remediation in Shreveport

Call (318) 666-4874 and tell us what you are seeing, roughly how big an area it covers, and whether anything has leaked, frozen or flooded recently. If it is easier to write it down, leave your details in the callback form below or on the contact page and we will call you. For dark growth in particular, see black mold removal; for offices and rentals, commercial mold remediation.