Bathroom Mold Removal in Baton Rouge, LA
Bathrooms are the most common mold call we get in Baton Rouge, for a simple reason: they’re the wettest room in a house that already sits in 88 percent morning humidity, and a lot of them have a fan that doesn’t vent anywhere useful. Call and tell us where you see it.
When you can handle it yourself
If it’s on tile, grout, caulk, or a painted hard surface and covers less than about ten square feet — a three-by-three patch — EPA says you can clean it yourself with detergent and water. Run the fan. Replace the caulk if it’s black underneath.
When it’s a job
- On the ceiling drywall, in the wall behind the toilet or tub, under the vanity, or on the subfloor around the toilet flange.
- Those are porous materials; the growth is inside them, and scrubbing the surface changes the look for a month. Bleach isn’t a remediation plan.
- The material comes out, the cavity gets cleaned and dried, and we tell you where the water is getting in — a shower pan, a wax ring, a supply line, a tub overflow — so it doesn’t come back.
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Baton Rouge notes
Slab ranches from the 1960s and 70s in Broadmoor, Sherwood Forest, and Villa del Rey often carry the original bathroom plumbing, and a slow leak under the slab or inside a wall shows up as a soft baseboard long before it shows up as a puddle. Raised houses in Mid City and the Garden District leak down into the crawl space instead, and the smell comes up through the floor.
