Kenneth City is a small town of about 5,000 people inside the west side of St. Petersburg, incorporated in 1957 and built almost entirely in the late 1950s and 1960s: single-story block ranches on slabs, carports, terrazzo floors, and shingle roofs that have been replaced two or three times. The town sits inland, well away from either bay, so its water comes from the roof and the equipment, not the surge.
Milton on October 9, 2024, is the storm Kenneth City remembers. Gusts of 80 to 100 mph crossed this part of the county and lifted shingles on ranches that had never leaked. The rain that followed went into attics and down the inside of block walls, and some of it did not show on a ceiling for weeks. The rest of the year, the trouble is a garage air handler sweating in damp heat.
Homeowners in Kenneth City who call us reach an independent mold provider who works in the area and starts with a moisture meter.
Dark staining on the roof decking after Milton is attic mold remediation, and the roof repair comes first. A closet ceiling with a dark patch under the attic hatch is black mold removal, handled by moisture and extent. A garage wall behind the air handler that reads wet is mold removal, and the drain line gets fixed as part of the scope.
Kenneth City has its own town government but not its own building department; building permits and inspections for the town run through Pinellas County Building Services, the same office that serves unincorporated Pinellas, Safety Harbor, and Oldsmar. A rebuild after removal that replaces drywall, wiring, or plumbing goes there, and the provider who rebuilds pulls it.
Call (727) 382-7755 now and tell us what you see in your Kenneth City 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.