Two completely different house types in one town — older timber houses by the Daugava, and new builds with mechanical ventilation.
We travel out to Ikskile and carry out sanitary treatment of premises: mould removal, odour removal, ozone treatment, treatment after flooding or a sewage incident, and after a long spell standing empty. The typical properties here are detached and terraced houses, flats in low-rise developments, and older houses that were once summer houses and are now used all year round.
We have no premises and no permanent staff in Ikskile — we travel on request and agree a date. In practice that means we try to do everything in one visit: inspect, treat, and tell you what needs sorting so the problem does not come back.
Very different houses stand side by side in Ikskile, and the cause of mould in them is the opposite. So the first question we ask is about the age of the house and the type of ventilation, not about the size of the patch.
The difference matters, because the answer is not the same. In the first case treatment only makes sense together with ventilating the lower storey and heating more evenly. In the second, with switching the ventilation on and changing the filters; if the heat-recovery unit sits switched off, the mould will come back however carefully we work.
If the source of the damp stays where it is, treatment is a half-solution with a limited shelf life. We say so before the work, not after.
Proximity to the Daugava and the reservoir does not in itself mean a house will have mould. It means a few things are worth checking on your particular property: how high the groundwater sits at the foundations in spring, whether damp lingers in the basement or an underground garage after rain, and whether the floor level on the lower side of the house is close to the ground.
The second local circumstance is the pine forest and shaded plots. In shade a façade dries more slowly after rain, and a north-facing wall can stay damp for days. Inside, that shows up as a cooler wall — and airborne moisture condenses on the coolest surface. Again: this is a question to check in a specific house, not a claim about the whole town.
Where the slopes are steep, the direction rainwater takes also becomes relevant — whether it runs away from the foundations or towards them. That is easier to see at an inspection after rain than on a dry day.
Related descriptions: causes of mould, private house treatment and summer house treatment.
In Ikskile, with its two kinds of building stock, the season changes not only the symptom but the cause. In the heating season, with the windows shut, moisture from showering, cooking and laundry stays in the room and condenses on the coldest surfaces. In spring a second mechanism joins in, affecting partly heated houses in particular: it is already warm outside, but the structures are still cold.
In summer the typical case is the reverse — a cool lower storey into which warm outdoor air is let in with the idea of "airing it out", and condensation forms on the cold walls and pipes. A basement is worth airing when the outdoor air is cooler and drier than the basement air, not at the warmest part of the day.
House type, age, floor area and whether there is a basement or lower storey.
Moisture readings, a ventilation check and establishing where the patch came from.
We say whether it is condensation, a leak or ground moisture — and what that means.
We treat the affected surfaces and rooms using the chosen method.
We say what to change so the patch does not return after the heating season.
At an inspection we do not go straight to the patch. The order is deliberate and always the same, because it is the order that tells us which of Ikskile's two house types your case is.
| Property type | What we check first |
|---|---|
| Older timber or summer-house type | The lower storey and the ground beneath it, the bottom log courses, the skirting zone, and how evenly the house is heated. |
| Terraced house or new build | The ventilation regime, the state of the heat-recovery unit and its filters, condensation on window frames and in cold corners. |
| Flat in a low-rise development | Draught in the duct, the shared external wall, whether the flat next door is heated. |
| House on the Daugava slope | The direction rainwater takes after rain, the gutters, the basement foundation zone and salt efflorescence low on the wall. |
After that list it is usually already clear whether we are dealing with ground moisture, condensation or a leak. Only then do we measure the area to be treated and talk about price. If you have an older house with a lower storey, expect the inspection to take longer than in a new build — there are simply more places to check.
In a flat in a low-rise development the task is narrower: what matters there is the ventilation duct, the shared external wall and whether the flat next door is heated. In a house, by contrast, we always start from outside — the gutters, the fall of the ground and the area around the foundations — because there the source of the water is more often outside the building than in it.
Honestly about what we do not do. We do not carry out building works: waterproofing, drainage, roof and gutter repair, insulation, or installing ventilation or a heat-recovery unit. If an inspection shows the cause is exactly there, we say so and do not start treatment that has no shelf life.
That is not a refusal but the order in which things work: treatment removes what has grown, but it does not replace the repair that removes the cause.
Ikskile is a town in its own right in the Ogre municipality — not a part of Ogre. In practice that matters in only one respect: write the address precisely when you enquire, because along the A6 corridor and by the Daugava bank, places that sit next to each other can be a considerably different length of journey. Nearby we also work here: Kegums and Balozi.
If there are several properties along one route on the same day, it makes sense to combine them — both for time and for cost.
Flats: one-room from €55, two-room from €65, three-room from €75, four-room from €85. Private houses from €95. Commercial premises: up to 100 m² €1.20/m², 100–300 m² €0.90/m², 300–1000 m² €0.70/m². Mould: inspection from €40, treatment from €1.50/m², minimum from €80. Ozone treatment €1.20/m², minimum €60.
Within Riga travel is included in the price; outside Riga a surcharge applies by distance. All prices →
No. They are two different towns in the Ogre municipality, and the distance from Riga differs. Please give the address precisely — we calculate the outside-Riga surcharge from it.
Best in spring, when the house is open and not yet fully furnished again, or in autumn before it closes up. In an unheated room in winter some methods work less well and the result is harder to assess.
Often the ventilation needs checking first: if the heat-recovery unit is off or the filters have not been changed in a long time, the moisture has nowhere to go. We check that at the inspection and say honestly if treatment alone will not solve the problem.
Describe the situation — we will tell you whether treatment is needed at all, and which one.
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