Mold Removal in The Avenues, UT

The Avenues climb the lower slope of the Wasatch north of South Temple on a grid of small 2.5-acre blocks that needed special territorial legislation in 1860 to legalize. The houses went up mostly between 1880 and 1920 as a streetcar suburb: Queen Anne and Victorian cottages, brick bungalows, and a few mansions, 143 of them counted as contributing buildings when the 487-acre Avenues Historic District went on the National Register in 1980. Nearly all sit on stone or soft brick foundations with a cellar or a later-dug basement underneath.

The slope sends every spring's meltwater downhill through those foundations. Stone walls from 1895 were never waterproofed, and a cellar finished into a bedroom in the 1980s put drywall and carpet against them. The north-south streets are steep, so a downspout that ends at the foundation on the uphill side feeds the wall all April. City Creek Canyon on the west edge ran high in 2023 and sat on the county's watch list.

Homeowners in the Avenues reach an independent local mold provider through this site's phone line. That provider reads the stone wall with a meter before deciding what comes out. We only set up the call.

Avenues mold removal behind a stone foundation

Growth low on a plaster or drywall wall in a finished cellar is mold removal, with the downspout and grade on the uphill side fixed first. A single 1910 bathroom with a window that paints shut and a black ceiling corner is bathroom mold removal. Putting the cellar back once the stone reads dry is mold damage repair.

A hospital on the hill since 1905

LDS Hospital occupies the blocks around Eighth Avenue and C Street in the middle of the neighborhood, and its emergency department is the place to go if someone in the house has trouble breathing around the growth; a doctor answers a health question, not a mold crew.

Call (801) 457-5486 and tell us about the cellar wall. We put you through to a local mold provider serving the Avenues.