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St. Bernard Parish

Mold Removal in Chalmette, the Most Rebuilt Stock in the Metro

Tell us what you can see and we will say whether it needs an assessment, a removal, drying, or nobody. A third of Chalmette's repeat-loss properties are recorded as mitigated against 8 percent in New Orleans, and 989 of its homes went up between 2010 and 2019, so much of this town is a newer, tighter, fully air conditioned house sitting over open space that was not there before.

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75.2FMean July dew point in the NOAA thirty year normals for the New Orleans airport, at or above the temperature a cooled house holds its walls at
$7,500The job size where Louisiana starts licensing mold work, and below it the written report and separation rules reach nobody
10 square feetThe EPA's line for a patch most people can clean up themselves, roughly three feet by three feet
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Tell us what you can see or smell, roughly where in the house it is, and whether the house is raised or on a slab. Those three things narrow it more than the size of the patch does, because they point at how the water is arriving rather than where it ended up.

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Six quick questions, then your details. It takes under a minute, and the answers are what a local assessor would ask first.

Question 1What are you dealing with?
Question 2Is the house raised, or on a slab?

This is the question that splits the job in this metro, and the two answers have almost nothing in common. A raised house has a vented space underneath that pulls in outside air, so the problem is usually the floor system. A slab house has its plumbing cast into the concrete, so the problem is usually a leak you cannot see reaching the bottom of the wall. Answer with whatever you know.

Question 3Where do you think the water is coming from?

Worth knowing before you answer: in this climate a wall can get wet with no leak at all. The mean dew point at the airport is 75.2F in July, which is at or above the temperature air conditioning holds a wall at, so the room's own cooled surfaces can pull water straight out of the air. If none of the leak answers fit, that is genuinely useful information and not a wasted question.

Question 4Is anything still wet?

EPA guidance gives wet material roughly 24 to 48 hours before growth starts, which is why the date matters more than anything else here. One local caution: opening the windows to dry a room out does not work here in summer, because the outside air is carrying more water than the room is.

Question 5What is your position at the property?

It changes who we talk to and what has to be put in writing. Worth knowing if you rent: a landlord's own maintenance staff are exempt from the mold remediation license under Louisiana law, so work handled in house was not done by anyone the state was holding to it.

Question 6How soon do you want someone out?
Who you are, and which building

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How can we reach you?

We call to confirm the details before anyone is sent out.

Where is the property?

The contractor match is by property, not by person, so the street line matters.

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St. Bernard Parish permits Chalmette work, and carries no rating discount

Chalmette is unincorporated and St. Bernard Parish is the permitting and floodplain authority for the whole town. The parish takes part in the National Flood Insurance Program but holds no Community Rating System class, so unlike Jefferson or St. John there is no rating discount to be had anywhere in it, whatever anyone tells you about an upgrade paying for itself. What marks Chalmette out is how much has already been done to it: 145 of its 429 repeat-loss properties are recorded as mitigated, 34 percent, against 8 percent in New Orleans, and 989 homes were built between 2010 and 2019. A raised house then has a problem a slab house does not. Federal rule 44 CFR 60.3(c)(5) requires enclosed areas below the lowest floor to carry at least one square inch of opening for every square foot enclosed so flood water can equalize, and the building science guidance is equally plain that in a humid summer that outdoor air carries more water vapor than the space it is entering. Those two facts are about the same vents. That is the condensation people find on the joists when they finally go and look. Tell us whether yours is raised and what is stored underneath.

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Is there open space under the floor?

On a raised Chalmette house that air is the first thing to check, and the vents that let it in are there for flood pressure. Tell us what is down there.

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What we arrange for Chalmette addresses

Mold Assessment and Moisture Survey

Find out where the water is arriving, whether the wall is leaking or condensing, and whether there is a mold job here at all, in writing, from a company that is not the one selling you the removal.

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Mold Removal and Remediation

Get the affected material out under containment, take the cause out with it, and have the work priced against a written scope that the removal firm did not write.

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Water Damage Drying and Flood Cleanup

Water out and the structure dried to a measured reading inside the 24 to 48 hour window that decides whether the material stays or comes out.

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We will tell you when the wall needs nobodyUnder about 10 square feet, the EPA says most people can clean it up themselves. If that is what you have, that is what you will be told.
Whoever assesses is not whoever removesLouisiana bars one company from doing both on the same property above $7,500. We keep them apart below it too, where the statute reaches nobody.
Check the license yourselfThe state licensing board runs a public Contractor Search by name, license number, city and parish. Look up whoever you are considering before money moves.
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What a raised and mitigated Chalmette house tells an assessor

Peeling patterned wallpaper revealing dark mottled growth on the reverse and wall face

145 of Chalmette's 429 National Flood Insurance Program multiple loss properties, 34 percent, are recorded as mitigated, and 51 of Arabi's 150, also 34 percent. Across the metro as a whole the rate is far lower: 8 percent in New Orleans, 13 percent in Metairie and 1 percent in Laplace.

Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, OpenFEMA dataset NFIP Multiple Loss Properties, data as of August 2, 2026, accessed 2026-09-22

Chalmette has 9,039 housing units with a median year built of 1978, and 989 of them, 10.9 percent, were built between 2010 and 2019, one of the highest recent build shares in this service area. Only 164 units, 1.8 percent, predate 1940 and 54.8 percent predate 1980.

Source: United States Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 five year estimates, accessed 2026-09-22

Federal regulation 44 CFR 60.3(c)(5) requires that fully enclosed areas below the lowest floor which are subject to flooding be designed to automatically equalize hydrostatic flood forces by allowing the entry and exit of floodwaters, and sets the minimum criteria as a minimum of two openings having a total net area of not less than one square inch for every square foot of enclosed area subject to flooding, with the bottom of all openings no higher than one foot above grade.

Source: Office of the Federal Register, Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, Title 44 Section 60.3, accessed 2026-09-22

The same guidance notes that in flood-prone areas of the United States local codes may require the installation of flood vents that allow water to pass freely into and out of a foundation to equalize pressure on the foundation walls, and advises choosing flood vents designed to reduce standby air leakage.

Source: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy Building America Solution Center, accessed 2026-09-22

Chalmette's Census Bureau interior point stands 5.92 feet above sea level under the USGS national elevation dataset.

Source: United States Geological Survey, The National Map, 3D Elevation Program Point Query Service, 1/3 arc-second elevation, accessed 2026-09-22

Chalmette records 429 National Flood Insurance Program multiple loss properties, of which 231 have four or more paid losses and 145 have been mitigated, the highest mitigation rate of any south shore town here at 34 percent.

Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, OpenFEMA dataset NFIP Multiple Loss Properties, data as of August 2, 2026, accessed 2026-09-22

St. Bernard Parish, community 225204, participates in the National Flood Insurance Program but holds no Community Rating System class, so no Community Rating System flood insurance discount applies anywhere in the parish. Chalmette and Arabi are unincorporated and fall under the parish as their permitting and floodplain authority.

Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, accessed 2026-09-22

St. Bernard Parish has 23,919 National Flood Insurance Program claims on record. The dataset covers claims from the start of the program and is redacted to protect individual policyholders.

Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, OpenFEMA dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims, data as of June 1, 2026, accessed 2026-09-22

Next Step

Tell us what the Chalmette house is standing on

Send what you know, including whether it has been raised, and a person will write back before anyone prices anything.

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