Westchester County
Mold Removal in the Village of Pelham
On any job over ten square feet in the Village of Pelham the independent assessor has to come in from outside, so booking that first is what keeps the schedule honest. No licensed mold assessment contractor is based in the village at all, only two remediators, and state law forbids one company from doing both halves on the same property.
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Tell us what you can see, where the water came from, and whether the building is yours or somebody else's. That is usually enough for us to say which trade you need, and who is on the hook for paying, before anyone comes out.
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Water damage repair is permitted work in the Village of Pelham
This page is about the Village of Pelham, which runs its own building department separately from Pelham Manor next door, and it is not Pelham Bay in the Bronx, where the city's mold laws apply instead. Opening a wall here is permitted work: the village lists damage repairs, expressly including damage from water, among the projects that need a permit application, along with all interior alterations, and moving a wall or partition also needs architect's drawings and structural sign off. Budget that at the start rather than meeting it halfway through. Pelham has the oldest housing in this coverage area, a median construction year of 1938 with 59.2 percent built in 1939 or earlier, and 57.5 percent single family with only a third rented, so the owner authorizes and pays for everything and no housing agency will chase it for them. Flooding is small, mapped and named: five repetitive loss properties in the whole village, but the 3rd Street area between the Hutchinson River and 4th Avenue has flooded and stayed flooded for days, and the village's engineers have named the North Pelham arterial and Highbrook drainage lines. Water standing for days is what turns a flood into a mold job, so on those lines getting drying equipment in on day one matters more than anything done in week two.
Areas within Pelham: Pelhamwood, Pelham Heights, North Pelham
Need an independent assessor in Pelham?
None are based in the village, so tell us early and we will bring one in.
What we arrange in the Village of Pelham
Mold Inspection and Assessment
Find out what is growing, how far it reaches and what water is feeding it, in writing, before anyone quotes a dollar to remove it.
Mold Assessment in Pelham →Mold Remediation and Removal
Get the mold and the material it is living in out of the building, to a plan somebody independent wrote, with the work checked afterwards by that same independent party.
Mold Remediation in Pelham →Water Damage Drying and Dry Out
Get the building dry inside the window where wet material is still just wet material, before a water problem turns into a licensed mold project.
Water Damage Drying in Pelham →What Pelham's drainage plan and the license register say
2 mold remediation contractors and no mold assessment contractors hold active New York State licenses at Pelham addresses.
Source: New York State Open Data, Mold Contractor Licenses, accessed 2026-09-16
The Village of Pelham Building Department lists damage repairs, expressly including damage from water, among the projects that require a permit application, along with all interior alterations and moving any wall or partition, which also requires architect's drawings and structural sign off.
Source: Village of Pelham Building Department, accessed 2026-09-16
The Village of Pelham has the oldest housing stock in this coverage area: a median year of construction of 1938, 59.2 percent of its 2,458 units built in 1939 or earlier and 89.7 percent before 1980. 57.5 percent of units are single family detached or attached houses and only 32.7 percent of occupied units are rented.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year, accessed 2026-09-16
The Village of Pelham annex to the county hazard mitigation plan describes replacing an inadequate 12 inch pipe on 3rd Street between the Hutchinson River and 4th Avenue with a proposed 72 inch relief stormwater outfall, recording that streets and homes in that area flooded during storm events and remained flooded for days after the storm. The annex also states the Hutchinson River needs maintenance and dredging and that the area under the Lincoln Avenue overpass floods.
Source: Westchester County Hazard Mitigation Plan, Village of Pelham annex, accessed 2026-09-16
The Village of Pelham reports that its engineers spent eighteen months developing a systemwide plan addressing two primary drainage channels: the North Pelham arterial line running from Glenwood Lake past the post office and serving the Hutchinson Elementary area, and the Highbrook line serving Pelhamwood and Pelham Heights between Lincoln Avenue and Colonial Avenue.
Source: Village of Pelham, accessed 2026-09-16
The Westchester County hazard mitigation plan records 66 flood insurance policies in the Village of Pelham, 58 claims, $291,919.32 in total loss payments and 5 repetitive loss properties, on FEMA data current to July 2021. The village told the plan that damages are generally contained to areas within the designated flood zones, that its flood hazard maps do adequately address the risk, and that mitigation to date has consisted of owners of a few homes in flood prone areas filling in their driveways and closing off garage doors at their own expense.
Source: Westchester County Hazard Mitigation Plan, Village of Pelham annex, accessed 2026-09-16
New York Labor Law section 936 states that no licensee shall perform both mold assessment and mold remediation on the same property, and that no person may own an interest in both the assessing licensee and the remediating licensee on that property.
Source: New York State Senate, accessed 2026-09-16
Tell us what is happening in your Pelham house
We will say whether it needs a permit, an assessor, or neither.