Rose Park was built in the 1940s and 1950s by developer Alan E. Brockbank as brick starter homes for GIs coming back from World War II, and he laid part of the streets out in the shape of roses, with American Beauty Drive as the stem and streets named for rose varieties branching off it. The houses are small brick ramblers of 1,600 to 1,800 square feet, a few early ones stick-framed, nearly all with a full basement that was finished by the 1960s.
The neighborhood sits on the west side of the city against the Jordan River, on the lowest, flattest ground in Salt Lake City. The water table under Rose Park rises with the melt every spring, and a 1948 basement with carpet on the slab and paneling over the block takes it first. On September 8, 2020, hurricane-force winds tore through here and took down hundreds of trees, and roofs patched after that storm have been a second leak path since.
Homeowners in Rose Park reach an independent local mold provider through this site's phone line. That provider meters the slab and the block wall before deciding what has to go. We only set up the call.
A damp carpet pad against the basement wall after the melt is mold removal. Dark growth on the back of 1960s paneling is black mold removal. A musty blast when the rooftop cooler starts is HVAC mold cleaning.
The Jordan River Parkway Trail runs more than sixty miles from Utah Lake to the Great Salt Lake, and the stretch along Rose Park's western edge is the neighborhood's front yard and its flood plain.
Call (801) 457-5486 and tell us what the basement carpet feels like. We put you through to a local mold provider serving Rose Park.
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.