Centerville kitchen mold repair in 3 days

The goal

First, stop the mold from spreading and remove everything it had reached. At the same time, keep the parts of the kitchen that were still sound, such as the uppers, countertops and backsplash, so the family had a working kitchen again within the week.

What we built in this Centerville kitchen mold repair

• Containment: sealed off the sink cabinet and ran an air scrubber so mold spores stayed out of the rest of the house
• Tear-out: pulled the dishwasher, removed the moldy sink base and cut out the damaged flooring and subfloor
• Cleaning and drying: treated and dried the wall and floor framing behind the cabinet
• Rebuild: set the sink base back in place and reconnected the sink, disposal and dishwasher
• Flooring: replaced the dark laminate with new light oak-look plank flooring through the kitchen and into the dining nook
• Final clean the same week

Details that mattered

Mold under a sink usually comes from a small, slow leak that nobody sees for months. For that reason, we contained the cabinet before opening it up, so spores stayed out of the living room. As a result, the job stayed small: the uppers, countertops and backsplash stayed in place, and the family was back in their kitchen in three days.