Guideline & Updates

Your crawlspace is wet again. You can smell it through the vents, and you know that moisture is feeding mold, attracting rodents, and slowly ruining your insulation. Salem's winter rain and clay-heavy soil make this a yearly problem for thousands of homeowners.

You keep the windows open, run a dehumidifier, and still the smell returns every time you walk downstairs. Musty odor in a Portland basement is not a ventilation problem. It's a mold problem, and ignoring it gives spores more time to spread through your HVAC system and into living spaces.

A pipe just burst in your McMinnville home and water is spreading across the floor. The next 60 minutes determine whether you're looking at a quick cleanup or major structural damage. Here's what to do right now.

Tigard gets cold enough to freeze pipes, especially during January and February when overnight lows drop into the teens. A frozen pipe is an emergency waiting to happen. When ice expands inside copper or PEX, it cracks the line, and once it thaws you have a flood.

The insulation hanging from your crawlspace ceiling is wet, sagging, and doing nothing to keep your floors warm. Fiberglass insulation loses all effectiveness once it absorbs moisture, and leaving it in place creates a mold farm directly beneath your living space.

Sewage just backed up into your Beaverton home through a floor drain or toilet. This is not regular water damage. Sewage contains bacteria, viruses, and parasites that make surfaces unsafe to touch and air unsafe to breathe. You need professional remediation now.