Golden sits where Clear Creek comes out of the foothills, at about 5,675 feet, pinned between North and South Table Mountain and the hogback. It was the territorial capital in the 1860s, and its housing shows every era since: Victorian cottages and brick fourplexes downtown, 1950s and 1960s ranches up the hill toward the school, and 1990s to 2010s subdivisions on the mesas. Clear Creek runs through the middle of town, and the May 8, 2017 hailstorm hit Golden with the same baseball-size stones that struck Arvada and Lakewood.
Golden's older basements are often rubble or block in sloping ground, with water running downhill at them from the mesas after every melt. The hillside lots also put window wells on the uphill side, where they catch runoff.
Homeowners in Golden 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 wet rubble-wall basement under an 1890s cottage is mold removal, and the crew works around stone rather than drywall. A furnace room that smells after the spring runoff is HVAC mold cleaning. A dark patch behind a basement laundry wall is black mold removal.
The Colorado School of Mines has taught engineering and applied science on the hill above downtown since 1874, and its geologists have mapped the same expansive claystone that cracks foundations across the metro. Down on the creek, the Golden History Museum and Park keeps the town's cabins and one-room schoolhouse, a few blocks from the brewery that has defined the town since 1873.
Call (720) 823-6943 and tell us what you see. We put you through to a local mold provider serving Golden.
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.