Azalea is a west St. Petersburg neighborhood between Tyrone Boulevard and Boca Ciega Bay, named for Azalea Park at its center and built out in the 1950s and 1960s as single-story block ranches on slabs. The Treasure Island Causeway leaves the city from its south edge, and the blocks nearest the bay and the causeway sit only a few feet above the water.
Those low blocks took surge from Helene on September 26, 2024, while the interior streets stayed dry below and took Milton's wind and rain from above on October 9. Azalea ranches have the standard west St. Pete problems the rest of the year: a garage air handler sweating through the cooling season, a bathroom with a weak fan, and a shingle roof on its third round.
Homeowners in Azalea who call us reach an independent mold provider who works in the neighborhood. That provider reads the walls and does the removal.
A ranch near the causeway that took surge is mold removal cut above the water line and dried, or whole-home mold remediation if every room got wet. An interior ranch with a musty puff from the vents every afternoon is HVAC mold cleaning, and the garage air handler is usually the answer. Streaked roof decking after Milton is attic mold remediation.
Azalea's position at the foot of the Treasure Island Causeway puts its low blocks in the same surge path as the beach towns, and the city's building department applies the substantial damage rules to flooded houses here when the rebuild is permitted. The provider who rebuilds pulls the permit.
Call (727) 382-7755 now and tell us what you see in your Azalea home.
Growth on drywall after surge water, a supply-line leak, or a window that took sideways rain: room sealed, wet board cut at the meter line, framing cleaned and dried.
A dark patch on a bedroom wall or closet ceiling handled by how far the water traveled, not by its color: containment, porous material out, leak fixed before closing.
A house that took Helene surge or sat shut for a season, mapped room by room, with every wet wall, cabinet, and floor handled as one project under one scope.
Coil, drain pan, blower, and condensate line cleaned or replaced when the air handler in a St. Pete closet or garage sweats through a nine-month cooling season.
Growth behind a vanity, under a shower pan, or on a plaster ceiling with no fan in a 1920s bungalow bath, removed with the leak or the venting fixed first.
Growth on roof decking under shingles Milton lifted, or around a sweating duct in a block ranch attic, cleaned once the roof and insulation are dealt with.
A musty smell in a house that looks fine, traced to the wet material under a floor, behind a cabinet, or inside a block wall, then removed and treated.
Drywall, baseboard, cabinet bottoms, and ceilings put back after removal, once the slab and framing read dry and the water source is repaired.