Mold Removal in Crescent Lake, FL

Crescent Lake is the neighborhood that wraps around the lake of the same name north of downtown St. Petersburg, between 4th Street and 9th Street. The houses are 1920s bungalows and Mediterranean Revival homes near the lake and along the brick streets, with 1940s and 1950s block houses filling in toward the edges. Plaster walls, crawl spaces, and original bathrooms are the rule on the older blocks.

Crescent Lake sits inland from the bay, so Helene's surge stopped short of it. Milton's rain on October 9, 2024, more than eighteen inches at Albert Whitted a mile south, did not; it overwhelmed the lake's drainage and found the low spots in old roofs. In an ordinary year the problem is the crawl space under a bungalow and a bathroom that was built around a window instead of a fan.

Homeowners near Crescent Lake who call us reach an independent mold provider who works in the neighborhood. That provider reads the walls and does the removal.

Bungalow problems around the lake

A 1920s bathroom ceiling that speckles again after each repaint is bathroom mold removal, and the fix usually includes adding the fan. A musty smell with nothing visible is mold odor removal, and the crew starts in the crawl space. Staining on old roof decking after Milton is attic mold remediation, and the roofer goes first.

The gardens on 4th Street and the permit desk downtown

Sunken Gardens, the century-old botanical garden on 4th Street North, sits at the neighborhood's east edge in a former sinkhole that was drained in the early 1900s, which says something about how water moves through the ground here. A rebuild after removal runs through the city's building department, and the provider who rebuilds pulls the permit.

Call (727) 382-7755 now and tell us what you see in your Crescent Lake home.