Mould Removal & Remediation in Brunswick

Old Meets New, and Cold Spots Form

Brunswick is one of Melbourne’s most enthusiastically renovated suburbs. Behind the Sydney Road shopfronts sit rows of single-fronted Victorian terraces, solid Edwardian and California bungalows, and former factories, and a huge share of them have been extended, reworked and modernised — rear open-plan additions, second-storey pop-tops, reconfigured bathrooms and laundries. On top of that, apartment developments have risen right across the suburb. It is this collision of old and new that creates a lot of the local mould.

When a well-insulated modern extension is joined to an old, uninsulated brick or weatherboard wall, the junction between them becomes a cold spot — and cold spots are where warm, moist indoor air condenses first. Brunswick homes throw up mould in exactly these places: the corner where a new addition meets the original house, an old bungalow sleepout or lean-to that was never properly sealed, and a renovated bathroom whose fancy fitout skipped a properly ducted fan. The new apartments have their own version, with tight, internal, single-aspect wet areas that cannot ventilate.

FreshDuct removes the mould and treats the surfaces, then works out why that particular spot is cold and damp: an insulation or sealing gap at a junction, a renovation that left extraction into the roof or nowhere, an old sleepout with no airflow. We fix the ventilation, advise on the cold-junction issue, and document every job with before and after photos.

Serving Brunswick & Nearby

FreshDuct services Brunswick and the inner north 7 days a week. We regularly work the neighbouring homes and units of Northcote, Fitzroy, Collingwood and Essendon, so Brunswick is right in our normal territory.

From the renovated bungalows off Sydney Road to the new apartments near the stations, we can usually offer a prompt inspection and prioritise mould at a cold renovation junction or in a windowless reworked bathroom.