West Valley City incorporated in 1980 by joining Granger, Hunter, Chesterfield, and Redwood, and with 140,230 people at the 2020 census it is the second-largest city in Utah. The eastern and central neighborhoods are brick ranch houses from the 1960s and 1970s, built fast on former farmland west of the Jordan River; the west side toward the Oquirrh foothills filled in during the 1990s and 2000s. Basements are the rule in the older half and common in the newer.
The 2020 Magna earthquake hit this part of the valley hardest. West Lake Junior High in West Valley City was declared a total loss, dozens of mobile homes were damaged, and across the west side foundations and plumbing joints cracked in ways that still let water in every spring. Add the rooftop swamp coolers that most 1970s ranches here still carry and the low ground along the Jordan River and the Surplus Canal, and a West Valley basement has three ways to get wet.
Homeowners in West Valley City reach an independent local mold provider through this site's phone line. That provider reads the basement with a meter and tells you what has to come out. We only set up the call.
A basement wall that weeps through a crack that opened in March 2020 is mold removal, with the crack sealed by a foundation contractor before the wall closes. A whole finished basement that soaked through is whole-home mold remediation. A cooler drip down the duct chase is HVAC mold cleaning.
The Maverik Center hosted Olympic hockey in 2002 and still fills on event nights, and a rebuild permit after removal goes through West Valley City, pulled by the provider.
Call (801) 457-5486 and tell us where the water came in. We put you through to a local mold provider serving West Valley City.
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.