Arvada was platted on December 1, 1870, where Ralston Creek meets Clear Creek, twenty years after Lewis Ralston panned the first gold in the Colorado Territory from that same creek. It grew as a farm town, shipped celery to the White House in the 1920s, and then filled in as a Denver suburb from the 1950s on, so the housing runs in rings: brick ranches and split-levels near Olde Town, 1970s and 1980s neighborhoods out to Wadsworth and Kipling, and 1990s to 2010s two-stories west toward Highway 93.
What every ring shares is a basement dug into expansive clay at about 5,500 feet. The clay swells with the spring melt, shrinks by August, and cracks the walls that sit in it. Window wells settle, sump discharge lines freeze in February, and hail opens roofs most summers. That is where Arvada mold starts.
Homeowners in Arvada reach an independent local mold provider through this site's phone line. The provider reads the walls with a meter and tells you what the house needs; our part is the phone call.
A gray band along the bottom of a finished basement wall after the melt is mold removal. A sump pump that quit while you were away and soaked the whole lower level is whole-home mold remediation. Dark streaks on the sheathing under a roof that took hail is attic mold remediation.
The city draws about three quarters of its drinking water from Denver Water's north system through Ralston Reservoir and the rest from its own rights on Clear Creek and Ralston Creek, stored in Arvada Reservoir, as the city's source water protection page lays out. The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities on Wadsworth opened in 1976 and marked its fiftieth season with three galleries, a main stage, and a black box, all a few blocks from the brick ranches where most of this town's mold calls begin.
Call (720) 823-6943 and tell us what you see. We put you through to a local mold provider serving Arvada.
Growth on a finished basement wall, behind a laundry room, or under a window well leak: room sealed, wet board cut to the meter line, framing HEPA-cleaned and dried.
A dark patch on basement drywall or a bathroom ceiling handled by how far the water traveled, not its color: containment, porous material out, source fixed first.
A sump pump that quit during the melt or a supply line that ran for weeks, mapped floor by floor and cleared in zones as one project.
Furnace cabinet, coil, humidifier pad, and return ducts cleaned when a basement air handler or a swamp cooler has been pushing damp air through the house.
Growth behind a vanity, under a shower pan, or on a ceiling with no fan, removed once the drain, supply line, or venting problem is fixed.
Dark streaks on roof sheathing after hail, an ice dam, or a bath fan venting into the attic, cleaned and treated once the roof and the venting are corrected.
A musty basement in a house that looks fine, traced to wet carpet pad, a damp wall cavity, or a crawl space, then removed and treated at the source.
Drywall, insulation, baseboard, and carpet pad put back after removal, once the wall reads dry and the crack or leak that started it is repaired.