Snell Isle is the 1920s island neighborhood that developer C. Perry Snell built out into Tampa Bay north of Coffee Pot Bayou, with Mediterranean Revival houses along the water, a golf course in the middle, and 1950s and 1960s ranches and newer houses filling the interior streets. Almost all of it sits only a few feet above the bay.
Helene's surge on September 26, 2024, came across the island and into living rooms, and news crews listed Snell Isle with Shore Acres and Coquina Key among the neighborhoods under bay water by midday. The 1920s houses took it into plaster and lath; the mid-century ranches took it into block and slab. Milton's rain followed on October 9.
Homeowners on Snell Isle who call us reach an independent mold provider who works in the neighborhood. That provider reads the walls and does the removal.
A 1920s house that took surge into plaster walls is mold removal handled wall by wall, with the lath and studs read behind the plaster. A ranch that flooded throughout is whole-home mold remediation, with the block cleaned of salt before it closes. A house rebuilt over the winter that smells again in the heat is mold odor removal.
A rebuild after removal runs through the city's building department, and the provider who rebuilds pulls the permit. Many of the island's 1920s houses are the kind that Preserve the 'Burg has worked to protect since 1977, and that group is a good place to ask how a flood repair can keep the original plaster and tile where they are sound.
Call (727) 382-7755 now and tell us what you see in your Snell Isle 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.