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Mold and Water Guides for Scarsdale and the Sound Shore

The five questions that decide what a job here costs you, taken one at a time. Why a basement here takes water in ordinary rain rather than only in a storm anybody remembers. What a water history means when the house changes hands. Who New York allows to inspect and who to remediate, and why it cannot be the same firm. What actually comes out of a finished basement and what stays. And why water that came back up a drain is a different job from rain that came down a wall.

Guides

The questions that come before the work, answered at length

Why a Scarsdale Basement Takes Water in Ordinary Rain

Why does my basement take water most years when the last flood was supposed to be a freak storm?

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Selling a Scarsdale Home That Has Taken Water

I am going to sell this house and the basement has flooded before. What do I have to say, and what gets inspected?

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Can One Company Both Inspect and Remove Your Mold in New York?

Can the same company that finds the mold also be the one that removes it?

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What Comes Out of a Finished Basement, and What Stays

If mold is found in my finished basement, how much of the room actually has to be torn out?

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Mold After a Sewer Backup Is a Different Job

The water came up the drain rather than down the wall. Is that a different job?

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Two independent licensed firms, because the state requires itOne company establishes what is there, a different one removes it, and New York extends that ban to shared ownership between them.
A written finding you can hand to somebody elseQuantities room by room, a reading against each and a photograph with a date on it, in language a contractor, a buyer or an insurer can act on.
Licensed and insured local tradesThe contractor who carries out the work holds the New York licenses and the insurance the job needs, and contracts with you directly.
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Tell us what you can see or smell, where in the house it is, and whether water has been in that space before. That last answer is the one that changes our advice most, because a space that has taken water more than once is asking a different question from a space that took it once.

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Question 1What are you dealing with?
Question 2Where in the house is it?

These are three different faults that happen to look alike. Water in a basement has almost always come from outside the building. An attic is usually holding moisture the house made itself and could not vent. A bathroom or a closet is usually neither. Around here it is overwhelmingly the basement, and it is usually finished space, which changes what the work involves.

Question 3How did the water get in, as far as you can tell?

This is the question that decides what kind of job it is. Water that comes down a wall, water that rises through the floor, and water that comes back up a drain are three different problems with three different scopes, and the third one is not the same work as the other two whatever it looks like afterwards. Not knowing is a normal answer and is one of the things an assessment settles.

Question 4Has water got into this space before?

This is the most useful answer on the form. The drainage report the Village of Scarsdale commissioned found the storm system in the area it studied could not carry a one year storm, so water that arrives in ordinary rain is common here and is not a sign anyone did anything wrong. If it has happened before, drying it again is not the job. Finding out what is bringing it back is.

Question 5What is in the space that got wet?

What comes out of a basement is decided by what is in it, not by how bad it looks. Porous things that held water, carpet and pad, drywall, insulation and built in cabinetry, are the part that has to be cut out and replaced. Bare masonry and framing are usually cleaned and dried in place. Knowing which you have tells us the shape of the job before anyone visits.

Question 6What made you look into it today?

It changes the order things happen in, not the price. A sale or a closing has a date attached and the assessment is the step with the lead time, so we start it first.

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