Mold Removal in Poplar Grove, UT

Poplar Grove runs west from Interstate 15 to the city line, between North Temple and about 900 South, and takes its name from a grove of poplars the Edwin Rushton family planted here in the late 1800s. It predates Glendale to its south and was the first Salt Lake City neighborhood to redraw its own boundaries and elect its own community council, splitting off in the 1990s. The housing is 1900s to 1920s cottages near the river and 1940s and 1950s brick ramblers farther west, nearly all with basements dug into flat river-bottom soil.

That soil is slow to drain. The Jordan River runs through the neighborhood, the water table rises with the melt every spring, and the 1940s basements were finished in the 1960s with paneling over block and carpet on the slab, the two materials a seasonal seep feeds. Rooftop evaporative coolers are still common, and the 2020 Magna earthquake, centered to the west, cracked older foundations on this side of the city.

Homeowners in Poplar Grove reach an independent local mold provider through this site's phone line. That provider reads the block wall and the slab with a meter before deciding what comes out. We only set up the call.

Poplar Grove mold removal on both banks of the river

A damp carpet pad against a basement wall after the melt is mold removal. Dark growth behind 1960s paneling is black mold removal. A seasonal musty smell with nothing showing is mold odor removal.

Why a west-side basement smells in April and not in August

The ground under Poplar Grove saturates when the Wasatch snowpack melts and dries out by midsummer, so a wall that only weeps for two months a year keeps the pad behind it damp for exactly that long, and the smell follows the season.

Call (801) 457-5486 and tell us when the smell started this year. We put you through to a local mold provider serving Poplar Grove.