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Your basement is the most moisture-prone space in your home. A professional inspection finds what's growing down there before it affects the rest of the house.
A collection of our customer reviews and experiences from our Google Business Profile.
If you walked downstairs this morning and caught that musty smell again, you already know something is off. Basements are the one room in a Mapleton house where moisture hangs around no matter what the weather is doing outside, and mold tends to settle in long before anyone thinks to look for it. Book an inspection and we can usually have someone at your door within a day or two with real answers, not guesses.
The smell is usually what tips people off. If it hits you every time you open the basement door, you have mold, humidity, or both. Other things worth paying attention to: white chalky patches on the concrete, which is moisture wicking through the foundation itself, condensation on pipes and ceiling joists during the summer, dark staining low on the walls, and any memory of water coming in during spring runoff or after one of those late summer thunderstorms that dumps an inch in twenty minutes.
Finished basements are the worst offenders because the mold has drywall, framing, and carpet to hide behind for months before anyone notices. Mapleton has its own set of problems here. We sit at the base of the mountains, so snowmelt coming down off the bench saturates the ground every spring, and a lot of the older parts of town have a shallow water table that people do not find out about until their sump pump gives up. Utah soil is heavy clay in plenty of spots too, which holds water right against the foundation instead of letting it drain away. The dry air outside does not help you much when the water is coming in from below. If your basement has felt damp for as long as you have owned the house, that is worth looking into now rather than after you replace the carpet.
An inspection with us runs about two to three hours on site, and our inspectors are NORMI trained. We start at the foundation walls and work our way around the whole space, paying close attention to the places mold actually likes: floor to wall joints, around the water heater and furnace, behind anything in storage, and inside finished wall cavities wherever we can get access. We take readings with moisture meters and protimeters on the concrete, framing, and drywall, because a surface can look bone dry and still hold enough water inside to feed mold. A hygrometer tells us what the overall humidity is doing. If we find or suspect mold behind a wall, we pull air or surface samples and send them to an independent lab. Your report comes back with photos, moisture readings, the lab results, and a plain English list of next steps.
Pricing depends mostly on the size of the basement and whether it is finished or unfinished. A finished basement takes longer because we have to spend more time working around walls and subfloor with moisture detection equipment. An unfinished basement is quicker to walk but often has more complicated moisture patterns we need to map out. You get a flat quote before we schedule anything, and that number is the number. No trip fees, no surprise add ons once we arrive, and no upselling you on lab work we have not already talked about.
We have inspected hundreds of basements across Utah County, and that local experience matters more than people expect. Homes along the Mapleton bench deal with runoff and hydrostatic pressure that a inspector from a drier part of the valley will not think to look for, and the swing from a bone dry August to a wet March creates moisture problems on a schedule most people never connect to their basement. We usually get out to you same day or next day, our inspection findings are backed by a satisfaction guarantee, and if we do find mold our VaPURE treatment can handle the whole basement without tearing out your finished walls.
Stop guessing about what is behind that smell. Call Pure Air Restored at 385-685-3825 and we will get an inspector out to you, usually within 24 hours. You will walk away knowing exactly what is going on down there and what to do about it.
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