Cottonwood Heights incorporated on January 14, 2005, and calls itself the city between the canyons: it sits on the ridge that separates Big Cottonwood and Little Cottonwood creeks where they leave the Wasatch, at about 4,820 feet. The 2020 census counted 33,617 people in 13,536 housing units. The housing is bench-era: 1960s and 1970s ramblers and split-levels on the lower ridge, larger 1980s and 1990s homes climbing toward the canyon mouths, and nearly all of it with a full basement, often a walkout.
Being on a bench matters two ways. Snow lies deeper and longer here than on the valley floor, and the slopes send meltwater toward the uphill side of every house; a walkout basement with the hill behind it takes water at the back wall first. Both Cottonwood creeks were on the county's high-risk list during the record melt of 2023.
Homeowners in Cottonwood Heights reach an independent local mold provider through this site's phone line. That provider reads the uphill wall with a meter and explains what has to come out. We only set up the call.
A wet back wall in a walkout basement after the melt is mold removal, with the grade and the drain behind the house fixed first. Black streaks on roof sheathing after a deep-snow winter are attic mold remediation. A seasonal musty smell with nothing visible is mold odor removal.
A rebuild after removal pulls its permit through Cottonwood Heights, and the provider handles the paperwork.
Call (801) 457-5486 and tell us which wall took the water. We put you through to a local mold provider serving Cottonwood Heights.
Growth on a basement wall after a window well filled or a stone foundation wept: room sealed, wet drywall cut to the meter line, framing cleaned and dried.
A dark patch on a basement wall or behind a vanity, handled by how far the water went rather than its color: contain, remove, clean, then fix the leak.
A finished basement that soaked through during the melt, or a supply line that ran for weeks, mapped room by room and cleared in zones as one job.
Swamp cooler pads, duct runs, furnace plenum, and the condensate pan cleaned when the house smells musty every time the blower or cooler starts.
Growth above a shower with no fan, behind a 1920s tile wall, or under a vanity with a slow trap leak, removed once the moisture source is fixed.
Dark sheathing under a flat roof that iced up in January, or around a cooler curb, cleaned and treated once the ice dam or the roof leak is corrected.
A musty basement smell with nothing visible, traced to the wet carpet pad, the back of the paneling, or the bottom plate, then removed at the source.
Drywall, baseboard, carpet pad, and cabinet floors put back after removal, once the basement reads dry and the seepage or pipe is fixed.