Mold Removal in Vancouver

The hatch in a Kitsilano character house gets poly before we pull a single batt. Negative air draws into the crawl so the hall and the fir floor stay quiet. Colonized fill and the dirt-floor debris go into bags in the bay, then the bags come up sealed. Joists with a hard surface get a HEPA vacuum.

Mount Pleasant crawls with the same unvented setup follow that bag-out. Soft, punky wood is a separate bag. Sound fir stays, cleaned, and the floor above it stays covered until the last bag is outside. We are taking material out, not blowing the bay into the kitchen.

Dunbar plaster that is colonized on the lath side comes down under containment. We score a cut line, support the sheet, and drop it into a bag so it does not shatter across the fir. The lath that is still sound gets a HEPA vacuum. Lath that is soft comes out with the plaster.

The room stays under negative air until the debris is gone. Loose crumbs are vacuumed, not swept into the hall. What leaves the house is the colonized sheet, the fuzzy lath, and the dust in the canister. Paint over a sheet that is still up is not a removal.

Hastings-Sunrise front rooms often hide the colony on the lath of an outside wall. We build the poly room first, then cut. Negative air keeps the rest of the character house from wearing that dust. Sheets go into bags at the cut, and the bags leave by a taped path to the door.

Studs and lath that can stay are HEPA vacuumed before the plastic comes down. The cut line is where the plaster is still bright and stuck. We do not chase a stain into sound wall just to make a bigger opening. The bag-out is the colonized area, carried out whole.

East Vancouver basement bottoms lose the lower board, the swollen trim, and the insulation that wicked up from the slab. We snap a level cut, bag each strip, and HEPA the studs above the line. Negative air runs at the stair so the main floor does not take the load.

Marpole slab edges get the same idea at a shorter height. Baseboard comes off, the fuzzy paper behind it leaves, and the underlayment that is colonized goes out in bags. The concrete gets a HEPA pass once the soft material is gone. That is the takeout.