Lakewood Estates is a south St. Petersburg neighborhood built around the St. Petersburg Country Club golf course, between 54th Avenue South and Lake Maggiore. The houses are 1950s to 1970s block ranches on slabs, many with terrazzo floors, carports, and screened lanais facing the fairways, with a few 1920s houses left from the subdivision's first attempt during the boom.
The neighborhood sits inland and a little higher than the bayfront to the east, so Helene's surge on September 26, 2024, did not reach most of it. Milton's wind and rain on October 9 did, lifting shingles and sending water into attics and ceilings. The rest of the year the trouble is equipment: a garage air handler sweating in damp heat, a condensate line clogged with algae by July.
Call us from Lakewood Estates and we put you through to an independent local mold provider who reads the house with a meter before writing a scope.
Streaked roof decking after Milton is attic mold remediation, and the roofer goes first. A musty puff from the vents every afternoon is HVAC mold cleaning, and the clogged drain line gets fixed as part of the scope. A dark patch on a closet ceiling under the attic hatch is black mold removal, handled by moisture and extent rather than color.
Lakewood Estates drains toward Lake Maggiore, the large lake that separates it from Boyd Hill, and the fairways around the houses hold standing water for a day or two after a summer storm, which keeps the air around the slabs damp. 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 Lakewood Estates 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.