Caprock Mold ProsCaprock Mold Pros handles mold removal in Ropesville, TX. Ropesville is about twenty miles southwest of Lubbock on US-62/82, on the way toward Brownfield. It is a small town in the middle of cotton country, and the properties we work on out here are a mix of in-town houses, farmsteads and outbuildings.
Free inspection, no travel charge, and we answer the phone at any hour.
Small Town, Long Response Times From Everyone Else
Here is the practical problem with living in a town the size of Ropesville. When something breaks, the trades that would fix it are all in Lubbock, and a lot of them treat anything outside the Loop as a favor. Which means the pipe gets fixed a day later than it should have, and nobody comes out at all to dry the wall.
That gap is where mold jobs are born. Water sitting in a wall cavity for two extra days is the difference between a drying job and a remediation.
We do not treat Ropesville as an outlying call. It is twenty minutes and we come the same day.
What Grows Mold Out Here
The farmstead pattern
A working place usually has more than one building with plumbing in it. The house, a shop, sometimes a bunkhouse or a second dwelling, a well house, and outbuildings. That is a lot of pipe, much of it exposed, some of it in buildings nobody enters on a daily basis.
The single most common thing we find on farm property is a leak that ran a long time before discovery, in a building that is only used seasonally or occasionally. By the time somebody opens the door, the water has been working for weeks.
Wells and irrigation
Pressure tanks, well house plumbing, buried supply lines and irrigation fittings. When any of those fail slowly, the water goes into the soil, and on this expansive clay that means both a moisture problem and a soil movement problem that puts stress on foundations and slabs.
Metal buildings that sweat
Shops, equipment sheds and storage buildings with a steel roof and little insulation condense heavily on a clear cold night. That water drips onto anything below and grows mold on whatever is organic. It looks like a roof leak and it is not. The fix is insulation or ventilation, and we will tell you which.
Roofs after hail
This stretch of the South Plains gets hail like everywhere else out here. Asphalt shingles get bruised and metal roofs lose fastener gaskets. Both leak later, not immediately, and both put water into an attic where it goes unnoticed. Attic mold is a routine finding in Ropesville homes.
Freeze breaks
Longer exposed runs, unheated outbuildings, and well houses. A hard freeze does more damage on a rural property than it does in town, and it takes longer to find. The repair is easy. The drying is what gets skipped.
Older Homes in Town
The housing stock in Ropesville proper leans older. Some of it is pier and beam, which means a crawl space with bare dirt under it that nobody has been in for decades. Some of it has aging galvanized plumbing that seeps rather than bursts. Bathrooms without exhaust fans are common in houses of that era, and steam with nowhere to go ends up in the walls and the attic.
None of this is exotic. It is just the sort of thing that goes unaddressed in a small town because there is no one nearby who does the work.
What We Bring
Everything we offer in Lubbock, at Lubbock prices:
- Mold inspection and testing
- Black mold removal
- Attic mold removal
- Crawl space mold removal
- Bathroom and shower mold
- Air quality testing
- Water damage cleanup and drying
- Mold damage repair
- Commercial and agricultural buildings
No Minimum Job
We do not have a minimum job size and we do not charge for the trip. If you want somebody to look under the house or up in the attic and tell you whether you have a problem, call and we will come do that. If the answer is that you are fine, we will say so and leave.
Call (806) 615-4601.
Older Farmsteads Around Ropesville
A lot of the residential property around here traces back to the farmstead development of the 1930s and the decades after, and those houses have been added onto and re-plumbed repeatedly since. Every remodel is a junction, and junctions are where water gets in.
The other thing about houses of that vintage: those built before 1980 frequently contain asbestos in ceiling texture, floor tile and pipe wrap, and those built before 1978 may have lead paint. Mold remediation means demolition, and demolition in those materials without testing creates a worse problem than the one you started with. We check the age of the finishes before scoping any tear-out.
Call (806) 615-4601 and we will look at all of it.
Common Questions About Mold Removal
Do you actually come out to Ropesville?
Yes, same day for emergencies. It is about twenty minutes on US-62/82 and there is no travel charge.
Is there a minimum job size?
No. If you just want an attic or crawl space checked, call and we will come look. It costs you nothing.
We have several buildings on the place. Can you check all of them?
Yes, and we recommend it on farm property. Buildings that are only used occasionally are where leaks run longest before anybody notices.
Our shop roof drips in the winter but there is no leak. What is that?
Condensation on the underside of the steel. It happens on clear cold nights when the deck drops below the dew point of the air inside. Cleaning up the mold without addressing insulation or ventilation means doing it again next winter.
How much does it cost to find out what we have?
Nothing. The inspection, moisture readings and a written summary of what we found are free.