Kearns began on May 1, 1942, as Kearns Army Air Base, a World War II training camp on farmland west of the Jordan River. After the base closed in 1946, houses went up fast on its streets and water lines, which made Kearns the first true suburb in Salt Lake County; building pushed west through the 1980s. The 2020 census counted 36,723 people, and the community became a city in May 2024. The housing is small 1950s and 1960s brick ramblers with full basements, finished long ago with paneling and carpet on the slab.
That era of basement is the one that grows mold here. Paneling furred straight over block with no vapor barrier, pad on bare concrete, a bathroom added in the 1970s with a fan that dumps into the joists, and a swamp cooler on the roof above a duct chase. Kearns sits a few miles south of the 2020 earthquake's epicenter, and cracked foundations in these older houses weep every spring.
Homeowners in Kearns reach an independent local mold provider through this site's phone line. That provider meters the block wall and the slab and lays out the scope. We only set up the call.
Dark growth on the back of paneling after the melt is black mold removal. A basement bathroom with a black ceiling corner and no working fan is bathroom mold removal. A seasonal musty smell with nothing visible is mold odor removal.
The Utah Olympic Oval, built for the 2002 Winter Games, is Kearns's landmark and the valley's only 400-meter speed skating track.
Call (801) 457-5486 and tell us what is behind the paneling. We put you through to a local mold provider serving Kearns.
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.