Caprock Mold ProsCaprock Mold Pros handles mold removal in Post, TX. Post is the Garza County seat, about forty miles southeast of Lubbock on US-84, and it sits at the bottom of the Caprock escarpment rather than up on the plains. That geography changes the work, which is why this page reads differently than our Lubbock pages.
Free inspection, no travel charge, and we answer the phone any hour.
Below the Caprock Is a Different Environment
Everywhere else we work is up on the Llano Estacado: flat, high, and draining slowly across heavy clay. Post is off the edge of it, down in broken country where the land falls away into canyons and draws.
That matters in a few concrete ways.
Runoff moves. Up on the plains, rain sits and soaks. Below the Caprock, water runs, and it runs fast when a storm dumps on the escarpment above. Properties positioned in or near a draw take water that originated miles away. Foundations and crawl spaces get wet from surface flow, not just from a leak.
Elevation and temperature swings. The escarpment creates its own conditions, and the day-night swings drive condensation on surfaces inside buildings that are not well insulated.
Older construction on varied ground. Post was founded in the early 1900s by C. W. Post, and the town has a genuine historic core along with ranch property spread across the county. That means buildings that predate any modern thinking about moisture, sitting on ground that is far less uniform than the flat plains north of here.
Historic Homes and Buildings
The older housing in Post is what we work on most.
Pier and beam and crawl spaces
Many of the oldest homes here are on pier and beam. That gives you a crawl space, and crawl spaces in this county frequently have bare soil, no vapor barrier, blocked or missing foundation vents, and grading that has changed over a century. Where runoff can get under a house, it does.
Symptoms show up on the floor above: soft spots, a musty smell strongest at floor level, cupping wood floors, and cold floors in one part of the house.
Original plumbing
Supply and drain lines that have been in service for the better part of a century do not fail cleanly. They seep. A weep under a floor or behind a plaster wall runs a long time before anything shows, and in a house with a crawl space that water lands on the ground and stays there.
Masonry and plaster
Older buildings here have masonry elements and plaster over wood lath rather than drywall. Deteriorated mortar joints let water into wall assemblies. Plaster hides a wet wall longer than drywall does, because it does not stain and sag the same way. When we open it up, the wood lath behind is exactly what mold wants to eat.
Downtown commercial buildings
Historic commercial structures have two recurring issues: roof and parapet drainage that has failed, and moisture wicking up through masonry from grade. Both need the source corrected before any cleaning is worth paying for. Commercial property gets no homeowner exemption under Texas rules, so above 25 contiguous square feet you need licensed remediation and an independent assessor. We handle that. See commercial mold remediation.
Ranch Property
Garza County ranch property means multiple buildings, long plumbing runs, wells, and structures that go weeks between visits. The worst jobs we find anywhere start in a building nobody entered for a month.
Metal barns and shops condense under the steel on clear cold nights and drip on whatever is stored below. Well houses and pressure systems leak slowly. Hard freezes break exposed lines and the water runs until somebody notices.
Hail, Wind and Freeze
Post takes severe weather like the rest of West Texas. Hail bruises shingles that then leak months later during a long soaking rain. Wind lifts shingles and pulls flashing. Both put water into an attic where it goes unseen until there is a ceiling stain, and that is why attic mold removal is a routine job here.
Hard freezes break plumbing, and the repair is not the problem. The problem is that the wall cavity, the crawl space and the framing never get dried afterward. That is a mold job three months later. Call us about water damage cleanup and drying before anything gets closed back up.
What We Offer in Post
- Mold inspection and testing
- Black mold removal
- Crawl space mold removal
- Attic mold removal
- Bathroom and shower mold
- Air quality testing
- Water damage cleanup and drying
- Mold damage repair and reconstruction
- Commercial mold remediation
Careful Work in Old Buildings
Rebuilding in a historic house is not the same as patching new construction. Plaster texture, original trim profiles, old flooring and window details all matter, and a repair that is structurally correct but visibly wrong is not finished. We tell you before we start what can be matched and what cannot.
Call (806) 615-4601 for a free inspection.
Common Questions About Mold Removal
Do you come down to Post?
Yes. About forty miles southeast on US-84 and we cover Garza County with no travel charge. Same-day response for active water.
Does being below the Caprock change our moisture problems?
It does. Up on the plains water sits and soaks into heavy clay. Down here it runs, sometimes carrying storm runoff off the escarpment, so properties in or near a draw can get surface water under a house without a single plumbing failure. We look at drainage and grading as part of the inspection.
Our house is nearly a hundred years old. Can it be remediated without ruining it?
Yes, and we work carefully in historic buildings. The bigger conversation is usually reconstruction, because plaster texture, trim profiles and original flooring are hard to match. We tell you before we start what we can match and what we cannot.
We have several ranch buildings. Which ones should we check?
The ones nobody enters weekly, first. A leak in a seldom-used building runs until somebody happens to open the door, and those are consistently the worst jobs we find.
Is the inspection free out here too?
Yes. Free inspection, no travel charge, no minimum job size.