A planned satellite town with uniform apartment stock — here the problem often sits not in one flat but in the whole riser.
Premises disinfection, mould removal, odour removal and ozone treatment — in flats, detached houses, offices, warehouses and other commercial units. We travel from Riga along the A6; we have no presence in Salaspils.
Salaspils is a planned town, and in practice that means a large share of the housing stock consists of apartment buildings of one period and one construction type. Stock like that behaves predictably — and that is precisely why the symptoms there are easier to read correctly.
An apartment building has two conditions a private house does not. First, the ventilation riser connects several flats, so smells and damp travel vertically. Second, the basement and the stairwell are common property, and a source of damp or smell there sits outside the boundary of any one flat.
If the source is in the riser or the basement, treatment in your flat will clear what has already soaked into the finishes and furniture but will not stop the transfer. In that case we record in the inspection description what was found and where, so you have something to take to the property manager or the owners' association. More: flat disinfection, odour removal, mould in the basement.
If your neighbour smells the same thing, or you can smell it in the stairwell, it is no longer a flat matter but a building matter.
Alongside the housing stock, Salaspils has scientific institutes and logistics and commercial sites along the A6 and the railway corridor. On a commercial property the planning is governed not by floor area but by three other things: how long the space may be left empty, what stays inside it, and what the access and security rules are.
Area, number of rooms, operating hours and when the site can be left empty.
At institutes and logistics sites, access and security rules have to be arranged in advance.
We assess the materials, the ventilation and what will stay in the space during treatment.
On commercial premises we usually work after hours or at weekends.
For companies — a contract, an invoice and a handover record.
For institutions and companies we prepare a contract, an invoice and a handover record. On property types separately: warehouse, production facility, inspection.
In a commuter town a large share of flats are let, and between tenants there are a few days in which the flat has to be clean and free of smell. That is a classic moment when treatment is in the right place: the space is empty, furniture is reachable from every side, and there is time to air afterwards.
If a flat has stood empty for several months, it is worth running water through every drain and opening every room for a day before treatment. In a fair number of cases the smell then goes and treatment is not needed at all — and we say so too. If the smell has soaked into soft furniture or a mattress, wiping surfaces will not touch it, and then treatment followed by ozone helps.
Uniform building stock brings one practical advantage: if the run of the ventilation riser and the location of the service rooms are known in one building, the same usually holds for its neighbours. That shortens the inspection and makes the diagnosis more precise. So please name the building series in your enquiry, or at least the number of storeys and the construction period, if you know it.
If the neighbour's flat on the same riser shows the same problem, the answer is not in treatment but in the building's ventilation.
Cold corners in a panel block are not a defect you can treat away. They are a property of the structure: at a panel joint the wall is cooler than in the middle, and that is where the room's airborne moisture condenses first. Treatment removes the growth, but the corner stays just as cold. So after the work we always say what to change in how the space is used — usually the distance between furniture and the wall, and regular airing.
In uniform stock the order of inspection is known in advance, and that is its practical benefit. We go to the patch last, not first, because in an apartment building the visible sign and the cause are rarely in the same room.
| Step | What it tells us |
|---|---|
| Draught in both ducts | If the paper at the grille does not move, there is no draught — and that is the cause, not the effect. |
| Right next to the ventilation grille | If the smell strengthens at the grille, the source is in the riser, not in the room. |
| Stairwell and basement door | The same smell outside the flat means the work has to be addressed to the building, not the flat. |
| External wall corners behind furniture | The coldest point in the room; condensation settles there first. |
| Moisture readings at several points | One reading says nothing — what matters is the difference between the middle and the edge of a wall. |
After that sequence it is usually already clear whether the work is in your flat or whether the question belongs to the property manager. Only then do we measure the area to be treated and talk about a sum. In practice four things change the price: the area, whether finishes — skirting, panelling, the bottom edge of plasterboard — have to come off, whether drying is needed before treatment, and how clear the access to the affected walls is. Distance is the fifth factor and the only one that does not depend on the property.
In the detached-house parts around Salaspils — and in the garden-plot and woodland areas on the edge — the first question is usually about the basement and the foundations. Proximity to the Daugava and the reservoir means it is worth establishing, for the specific property, how high the groundwater sits and whether there has ever been water in the basement. That is a question to check, not a claim about the town.
What we do not do: we do not install ventilation or repair risers, fit insulation, lay waterproofing or carry out building works. Those are other trades' jobs, and sometimes they are exactly the right answer — we say that too.
One-room flat from €55, two-room from €65, three-room from €75, four-room from €85, private house 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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Partly. Treatment will clear what has already soaked into the flat's finishes and furniture, but it will not stop the transfer along the shared riser. At the inspection we establish where the source is and record it in the description, so you can take it to the property manager.
You can, but the customer then has to be the property manager or the flat owners' association, because those are communal spaces. An individual flat owner can order work only inside their own flat.
Yes. There we plan the work around the site's operating pattern and access rules, usually outside working hours, and we agree it in advance — not least because we travel from Riga.
Describe the situation — we will tell you whether treatment is needed at all, and which one.
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