Garland is the big Dallas County city southeast of Plano, and its housing is a generation older than Plano's. The core of the city went up in the 1950s and 1960s as a manufacturing town, with small brick ranches on slabs along Garland Road, Broadway, and the streets around the old downtown square, followed by 1970s and 1980s neighborhoods toward Firewheel and the Collin County line. Those 1950s slabs carry cast iron drains that are now seventy years old.
On December 26, 2015, an EF4 tornado with winds near 180 miles per hour crossed from Sunnyvale into Garland and Rowlett, killing ten people and damaging or destroying more than 600 homes and businesses along a thirteen-mile path. Houses that lost roofs that night, and were tarped through a wet winter while adjusters worked, had wet insulation and decking for months, and attic mold calls from that corridor ran well into 2016. The slow calls are the usual ones: a cast iron drain cracked under a 1958 slab, or a hall bath on its third wax ring.
Garland homeowners who call this line reach an independent local mold provider. The provider meters the house, writes the scope, and does the work; we arrange the call.
A hall closet that smells like wet earth in a 1950s ranch is mold removal, with the cast iron drain traced first. A dark ceiling and matted insulation under a roof replaced after the tornado is attic mold remediation. A hall bath whose floor has gone soft at the toilet is bathroom mold removal.
Rebuilds that move plumbing or electrical are permitted through the City of Garland. The Garland Landmark Society, founded in 1972, keeps the photographs and records of the downtown square and the mill-town years that built those 1950s neighborhoods.
Call (972) 787-0657 and tell us what you see. We put you through to a local mold provider serving Garland.
Growth on drywall after a slab leak, a water heater, or a washer box let go: room sealed, wet board cut to the meter line, framing HEPA-cleaned and dried.
A dark patch handled by how far the water traveled, not its color: containment up, porous material out, hard surfaces cleaned, the leak fixed before closing.
A slab leak that ran for months or a line that split in a freeze and soaked several rooms, mapped wall by wall and cleared in zones as one project.
Coil, drain pan, and condensate line cleaned or replaced when the attic air handler sweats through a 100-degree Plano summer and drips into the ceiling below.
Growth behind a vanity, under a shower pan, or on a ceiling with a weak fan, removed after the supply line or the drain leak behind it is repaired.
Growth on roof decking under hail-cracked shingles or around a sweating duct, cleaned and treated once the roof and the insulation are put right.
A musty smell in a house that looks fine, traced to the wet pad under the floor or the drywall behind a cabinet, then removed and treated.
Drywall, texture, baseboard, and cabinet bottoms put back after removal, once the slab reads dry and the plumber has fixed what started it.