Mold in an old East Bay house
SOS Restoration of East Bay clears mold from houses across Oakland and its cities, most of them decades old. We trace the water first, take the growth out, then seal the wall. English or Spanish; the visit is free. Call (341) 220-0032.
Somebody answers and a van leaves. Looking is on us. CSLB #1131134 · IICRC #70194273
and the van is loaded before the call ends
the whole arc, from the first hour to the last coat
across Alameda and Contra Costa counties
IICRC #70194273
No leak, and still mold?
Bay air alone keeps an old wall damp enough to grow it.
By the shore the marine layer presses damp onto a north wall for months. In a pre-war house with no vapor barrier, that is enough. We meter the material rather than blame the weather.
The paint is old. Does that slow you?
It adds a step: a sample before anything is scraped.
Residential lead paint was banned in 1978, and much of the East Bay predates it, Oakland’s median is 1952. So an old ceiling or wall gets a sample before a scraper touches it, not after.
Do I need a lab clearance?
Sometimes, and an outside hygienist signs it, not us.
A landlord or an insurer may want a third-party clearance after the removal. We do the work; an independent tester signs the result. That keeps the check honest and the file clean.
How is mold work priced?
No charge to look; mold work starts at $90 an hour.
Every figure sits on the rate card, one page. Cutting the water source is step one, and if a wall opens the rebuild is one written total. The record feeds the insurance claim.
Which cities do you clear?
Can I take a patch out myself?
Ten square feet or less, masked and gloved, a window open.
Past that, or growth behind a wall you cannot see, wants a meter and containment. Not sure? The dispatcher sends someone to read it.
Is old Bay housing worse for this?
Older stock hides it longer. Berkeley’s median home dates to 1941.
Plaster walls and unvented crawl spaces hold moisture where a meter must go looking for it. The survey comes before any quote for that reason.
Who grades the finished work?
An independent hygienist, never the company that did the removal.
Where a lender or an association wants paper, an outside hygienist takes it. A firm that finds mold and then quotes the cure has marked its own homework.
Which growth is not a job?
Mildew on a grout line wipes away and is not worth a crew.
It returns because the room stays wet, so a fan and a habit beat any invoice. We come when it sits behind something nobody can wipe.
Water damage
Fire & smoke
Storm damage
Sewage cleanup
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
The cities we drive to for this work
The bay side stays damp under the fog most of the year; the Tri-Valley and the Delta bake dry and hide it inside the walls. Same spore, two very different houses. Each city page says which one you are standing in.
Rather write it than talk? Leave it here and we call you back.
The number is the part that matters. The rest just tells us which crew to send and how far up the road they are going.
Mold in an old Bay wall returns until the damp does not, so start at the water. Call (341) 220-0032 and we do.
Sewage, storm damage, mold, fire and smoke, water, and the reconstruction that follows them, for Oakland and the twenty-four East Bay cities around it. Any hour, any day. Se habla español.