A compact, almost entirely residential district where windows are often kept shut — and a shut window is one of the commonest backstories to condensation.
Zolitude is compact and almost entirely residential, so the enquiries are fairly uniform: mould in a flat, a smell from the neighbours or after tenants, treatment after flooding from above, ozone treatment before moving in. Alongside that there are retail and public premises, which we treat by area.
We have no office and no depot in the district — we travel out on request and agree a day. In Riga travel is included in the price, and we do not promise an arrival time to the minute.
Most mould cases in a flat are a question of air exchange, not of hygiene.
In Zolitude the railway and the roads towards the airport are close by, and some residents therefore keep the windows shut even when it is not cold outside. That in itself is not a problem — the problem starts when the building has already been sealed up with new windows and there is no other air supply.
The ventilation of a series-built block is designed as a one-way system: air comes in through window gaps and living rooms and leaves through the kitchen and bathroom stack. Take away the supply and the extract stops. The grille looks normal but pulls nothing at all.
If these checks show that the draught does not work in any setting, that is a question for the building manager — the stack is part of the common property. We record it in the inspection notes. More: mould in window frames, causes of mould.
In a flat in a series-built block mould does not start in a random place. It starts on the coldest surface, and those are usually few and predictable.
If the patch is in only one of these places and it is small, the initial job can be small. If it is in several, the question is no longer about one wall. See mould on walls and mould in the bathroom.
In autumn and winter the external walls cool down, the windows stay shut, and every day the flat produces moisture from showering, cooking and drying laundry. That is the season when patches appear most often — not because the building has changed, but because the temperature difference has.
In spring the opposite happens: it is already warm outside but the structures are still cold, and on the first warm days moisture from the outside air can appear on the walls. So it is worth planning an inspection while the symptom is visible, rather than after everything has dried out.
We work the same way next door: Imanta. If the property is empty before a move-in, treatment after tenants is useful.
There is one price list, but the final figure for the same type of flat can differ. There are a few reasons, and none of them is a secret.
Ozone treatment is priced separately — €1.20/m² with a minimum of €60 — and it makes sense when the smell has soaked into textiles and finishes but the source has been dealt with. If the source is still active, the result disappears within days.
In Zolitude flats the work usually falls into four stages, and only one of them is the treatment itself. The rest is preparation, drying and airing — and those are what determine how long the flat cannot be used.
In a compact one-room flat the whole cycle is shorter than in a four-room one, but airing there can be slower if there is no trickle vent and the window has to stay shut because of noise. So we give the time for the particular space, not by the number of rooms.
Flats: 1-room from €55, 2-room from €65, 3-room from €75, 4-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.
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Not directly. Indirectly it does: if the windows are kept shut almost all the time, air exchange is lower and moisture builds up in the flat. The answer then is not to air more often with the window wide open, but to provide a small, constant supply of air.
We treat the area that needs treating, which is usually larger than the visible patch — the growth spreads into places where the surface still looks clean. If it is under wallpaper, panelling or skirting, that has to come off and the area grows accordingly. The calculation is from €1.50/m², minimum from €80.
Yes, provided someone is there to unlock and let us in, and we have agreed the scope beforehand. After the work we say how long the space has to stay empty and when it can be used normally.
Describe the situation — we will tell you whether treatment is needed at all, and which one.
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