Mold Removal in Historic Uptown, FL

Historic Uptown sits directly north of downtown St. Petersburg, roughly between 5th and 13th Avenues North and 4th and 9th Streets, and is one of the city's oldest neighborhoods. The houses are 1910s and 1920s bungalows and frame vernacular homes, with brick streets, plaster walls, wood floors over crawl spaces, and bathrooms built around a window. Apartment buildings from the same era are mixed in.

Uptown sits inland from the bay, so Helene's surge did not reach it. Milton's rain on October 9, 2024, more than eighteen inches at Albert Whitted just south, found every weak seam in a century-old roof. The rest of the year the trouble is below the floor, where a crawl space stays damp from May to October and feeds a smell up through the boards.

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

Century-old houses and the Uptown calls

A plaster bathroom ceiling that comes back a month after each repaint is bathroom mold removal, and the fan the house never had is part of the fix. A musty smell with no visible growth is mold odor removal, and the search starts in the crawl space. A plaster wall that got wet under a Milton leak is mold removal handled wall by wall, with lath and studs read behind it.

The children's museum on 4th Street and the historic review

Great Explorations Children's Museum sits on 4th Street North at the neighborhood's edge, next to Sunken Gardens, in a building that shares the same 1920s footprint as the houses around it. Uptown is a local historic district, so a rebuild that touches a contributing house's exterior gets a design review on top of the city permit, which the provider who rebuilds pulls.

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