Draper incorporated in 1978 as a farming town of a few thousand at the south end of the valley and grew to 51,017 people by the 2020 census, most of that after 1990. The housing is new by Salt Lake standards: 1990s and 2000s two-stories on the valley floor at about 4,750 feet, and larger homes climbing the Traverse Mountains and the Corner Canyon benches on the east side. Nearly every house has a basement, and on the hillside most are walkouts.
The hillsides are the Draper story. On April 22, 2023, after the record snowpack saturated the slopes, two homes on Springtime Road in Hidden Canyon Estates slid off their foundations and collapsed, and neighboring homes were evacuated. Most bench houses never move, but the same saturated soil presses meltwater against the uphill wall of every walkout basement from March into June, and a hairline crack in a poured wall weeps for weeks.
Homeowners in Draper reach an independent local mold provider through this site's phone line. That provider reads the uphill wall with a meter before anything is opened. We only set up the call.
A wet back wall in a walkout after the melt is mold removal, with the drainage behind the house corrected before the wall closes. A finished basement that soaked through across several rooms is whole-home mold remediation. Drywall and pad replaced once the wall reads dry is mold damage repair.
Loveland Living Planet Aquarium draws families from across the valley to Draper, and a rebuild permit after removal runs through the City of Draper, which the provider handles.
Call (801) 457-5486 and tell us which wall is weeping. We put you through to a local mold provider serving Draper.
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.