Downtown Plano is the oldest ground in the city, the blocks around 15th Street and K Avenue where the Houston and Texas Central Railway arrived in 1872 and the town incorporated the next year. A fire took most of the business district in 1881 and it was rebuilt in brick; the Texas Electric Railway interurban stopped here from 1908, and the DART light rail station opened on the same corridor in 2002. Around Haggard Park, the Victorian and early-1900s houses of the heritage district sit on pier-and-beam foundations with crawl spaces underneath.
Pier-and-beam changes everything about a mold call. There is no slab to crack, but there is a crawl space that stays damp after a wet spring, galvanized supply lines inside plaster walls that pinhole after a century, and bathroom additions tucked into old back porches with no fan and no proper drain slope. The newer downtown stock, the lofts and townhomes built since the station opened, is standard slab-and-attic-unit construction, and the condensate line and the second-floor laundry are its usual sources.
Downtown homeowners who call this line reach an independent local mold provider who meters the house, old or new, and writes the scope. We connect the call and the rest is between you and the provider.
A musty smell rising through the floorboards after a rainy stretch is mold odor removal, and the crew starts in the crawl space. Growth behind plaster where a galvanized line let go is mold removal, worked around lath rather than drywall. A bathroom in a converted back porch that blackens every month is bathroom mold removal.
The Plano Conservancy for Historic Preservation runs the Interurban Railway Museum in the 1908 station on the edge of Haggard Park and keeps the records of the houses around it, which is where to look if you want to know what year the walls of your downtown house were plastered.
Call (972) 787-0657 and tell us what you see. We put you through to a local mold provider serving Downtown Plano.
Growth on drywall after a slab leak, a water heater, or a washer box let go: room sealed, wet board cut to the meter line, framing HEPA-cleaned and dried.
A dark patch handled by how far the water traveled, not its color: containment up, porous material out, hard surfaces cleaned, the leak fixed before closing.
A slab leak that ran for months or a line that split in a freeze and soaked several rooms, mapped wall by wall and cleared in zones as one project.
Coil, drain pan, and condensate line cleaned or replaced when the attic air handler sweats through a 100-degree Plano summer and drips into the ceiling below.
Growth behind a vanity, under a shower pan, or on a ceiling with a weak fan, removed after the supply line or the drain leak behind it is repaired.
Growth on roof decking under hail-cracked shingles or around a sweating duct, cleaned and treated once the roof and the insulation are put right.
A musty smell in a house that looks fine, traced to the wet pad under the floor or the drywall behind a cabinet, then removed and treated.
Drywall, texture, baseboard, and cabinet bottoms put back after removal, once the slab reads dry and the plumber has fixed what started it.