Mold Removal in Meyers, CA

Meyers sits around 6,300 feet at the junction of Highways 50 and 89, directly below Echo Summit. Many of the houses are cabins from somewhere in the fifties through the seventies: low-pitched roofs, wall heaters, single-pane sliders, and crawl spaces dug into decomposed granite. Snow that slides off a steep roof in South Lake Tahoe stays put on a low Meyers roof, and the meltwater finds the seam at the eave every March.

The other Meyers habit is the closed cabin. An owner in the valley locks it in November with the heat low and comes back in February to find frost inside the bedroom window and a gray bloom on the wall behind the bed. Warm air from the wall heater met the cold wall and condensed there for three months. A frozen line that splits and runs for days is the other way a locked cabin gets wet. Call us and we hand the job to an independent provider who works Meyers and the Highway 50 side; the visit and the scope are theirs.

Cabins below Echo Summit with the snow load on the roof

A low roof under four feet of snow wets the sheathing from above and the insulation from below when the heat rises through a thin ceiling, and attic mold remediation handles both surfaces once the roof has been cleared. A dark patch behind a bed on a north wall goes through black mold removal, with the wall opened to check the cavity. When the drywall comes down, mold damage repair rebuilds with the framing dry and the heater relocated if that is what caused it.

Should a Meyers cabin sit closed all winter?

Only with the plumbing drained or the heat set high enough to keep the wall cavities from icing up, and either way someone should open the door once a month. The Lake Valley Fire Protection District is the first call when a space heater goes wrong in one of those cabins, and a house that took a hose line in January needs drying before anyone thinks about paint. A neighbor with a key and a battery water alarm by the heater will save you a wall or two.

Call (209) 764-2249 and say how long the cabin sat closed before you found the spot. Weeks and months are different jobs.