Fairpark lies north of North Temple between 500 West and the Jordan River, and the Utah State Fairpark takes up a large share of it. The houses on the surrounding blocks are 1900s to 1920s brick cottages and bungalows near the fairgrounds and 1940s ramblers toward the river, on flat valley floor with basements and cellars dug into ground that drains toward the Jordan.
The river is the neighborhood's western boundary and its water table. When the snow melts between March and June the ground along it stays wet for weeks, and a 1915 cellar on a brick foundation, or a 1948 basement with paneling over block, takes that water low on the wall. Rooftop swamp coolers and a single bathroom with a window for a fan add the summer and winter leaks, and the 2020 earthquake cracked foundations on this side of town.
Homeowners in Fairpark reach an independent local mold provider through this site's phone line. That provider meters the wall and the slab before explaining the scope. We only set up the call.
Growth low on a finished cellar wall after the melt is mold removal. A black ceiling corner over the tub in a bathroom with no fan is bathroom mold removal. Carpet, pad, and drywall put back once the wall reads dry is mold damage repair.
The Utah State Fairpark hosts the state fair each September and events through the year on the grounds that fill the neighborhood's center.
Call (801) 457-5486 and tell us what got the cellar wet. We put you through to a local mold provider serving Fairpark.
Growth on a basement wall after a window well filled or a stone foundation wept: room sealed, wet drywall cut to the meter line, framing cleaned and dried.
A dark patch on a basement wall or behind a vanity, handled by how far the water went rather than its color: contain, remove, clean, then fix the leak.
A finished basement that soaked through during the melt, or a supply line that ran for weeks, mapped room by room and cleared in zones as one job.
Swamp cooler pads, duct runs, furnace plenum, and the condensate pan cleaned when the house smells musty every time the blower or cooler starts.
Growth above a shower with no fan, behind a 1920s tile wall, or under a vanity with a slow trap leak, removed once the moisture source is fixed.
Dark sheathing under a flat roof that iced up in January, or around a cooler curb, cleaned and treated once the ice dam or the roof leak is corrected.
A musty basement smell with nothing visible, traced to the wet carpet pad, the back of the paneling, or the bottom plate, then removed at the source.
Drywall, baseboard, carpet pad, and cabinet floors put back after removal, once the basement reads dry and the seepage or pipe is fixed.