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Plain Answers on Mold, Water and Who Pays in Jersey City

These are the things people search before they are ready to call a company: why a basement is wet on a hill that never floods, what New Jersey actually licenses, what a tenant can make a landlord do, what a clearance report has to contain, and where the money in this trade goes. Every one is sourced and every one says plainly when you do not need a contractor.

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Guides

What to read before you talk to anybody

Why Your Jersey City Basement Is Wet and Your Friend's Is Dry

Why is my Jersey City basement wet when nobody two neighborhoods over has ever had a drop?

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No New Jersey Mold License Exists. What You Can Check Instead

Does anyone check a mold company in New Jersey before it works in my home?

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Mold in a Jersey City Rental: What a Tenant Can Actually Do

My Jersey City apartment has mold and my landlord will not act. What can I actually do?

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Is There a Mold Clearance Certificate in New Jersey?

What should a mold report contain, and is there such a thing as a clearance certificate?

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What Decides the Price of a Mold Job in Jersey City

What does mold removal cost, and what actually decides the number?

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In Practice

What the work looks like

Portable dehumidifier beside damp concrete basement wall with efflorescence
Leaking gutter joint wetting red brick facade below a window
Under-sink cabinet with black mold, rotting shelf and moisture meter in front
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A patch you can already see usually needs no testState health guidance says that where a visual inspection finds mold, more testing is not necessary and the money is better spent on the water.
Licensed and insured on the trades that have licensesThe rebuild half is licensed under New Jersey's home improvement contractor board and insured. For the mold half, no state license exists for anyone to hold.
Phones answered 24/7, no obligation either wayDescribe it at whatever hour you noticed it. Nothing is booked from a phone call and nothing is priced until there is a written finding to price.
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Tell us the street or the neighborhood, what you can see or smell, and whether the water came up through the floor or in through a wall. In this city those two answers point at different trades, different costs and often a different person who should be paying.

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Question 2Which part of the city is the property in?

This is the question that decides the job here. Jersey City runs from about 13 feet above sea level at the waterfront to about 148 feet on the Heights, roughly two miles apart, and the two ends fail in completely different ways. Down at the waterfront the water usually arrives up through a drain from a combined sewer, which is treated as contaminated, so soaked drywall and insulation come out rather than being dried. Up on the ridge it usually arrives sideways through a foundation wall, which is a drainage problem and not a contamination one. If you are not sure, pick the nearest.

Question 3Is anything still wet?

Wet material can start growing inside roughly a day to two days, so this one answer sets the pace of everything after it.

Question 4What is your position at the property?

About 72 percent of homes in this city are rented, and in a condo or a tower the wet wall is often the association's rather than yours. Who holds the duty to fix dampness changes who we talk to, what has to be put in writing, and who ends up paying for it.

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