Federal Heights sits on the bench just north of the University of Utah, between the Avenues and the old Fort Douglas reservation that the Army established in 1862. The houses are 1900s to 1930s period revival homes, many of them large, on sloping lots with mature trees, plus a band of later construction above them from the 1970s on. Basements here were dug deep into the bench gravel, and most have been finished at least once since.
The bench slopes west and south, so meltwater from Fort Douglas and the foothills above runs through these yards every April, and Red Butte Creek, which drains the canyon behind the university, was on the county's high-risk list during the record melt of 2023. A 1920s brick foundation with a 1980s family room against it, and a downspout that ends in a planting bed on the uphill side, is where Federal Heights mold starts.
Homeowners in Federal Heights reach an independent local mold provider through this site's phone line. That provider reads the uphill wall with a meter and then explains the scope. We only set up the call.
Growth on a finished basement wall after the melt is mold removal, with the uphill downspout and grade fixed first. A dark bloom on old brick behind a built-in is black mold removal. A seasonal musty smell with nothing visible is mold odor removal.
Red Butte Garden covers 100 acres on Wakara Way at the mouth of the canyon above Federal Heights, on the creek that carries the bench's snowmelt past these houses.
Call (801) 457-5486 and tell us which wall is weeping. We put you through to a local mold provider serving Federal Heights.
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.