Tierra Verde is an unincorporated island community at the south end of the county, built on dredge-and-fill land in the 1960s and reached by the Pinellas Bayway on the way to Fort De Soto. The housing is 1960s and 1970s single-story block houses on canals, newer two-story and elevated houses that replaced them, and condo and townhouse clusters near the marinas. Everything sits within sight of the water.
Helene's surge on September 26, 2024, came across the canals and into the older ground-level houses, and the Bayway was closed while the barrier islands were cleared. Houses built on the island's original grade took salt water into every exterior wall at once; the newer elevated houses took it in the garage and the storage below. Milton's wind followed on October 9.
Homeowners in Tierra Verde who call us reach an independent mold provider who works on the island. That provider reads the walls and does the removal.
A 1960s canal house that stood in bay water is whole-home mold remediation, with every exterior wall opened above the water line and the block cleaned of salt. An elevated house where only the ground-level garage and storage got wet is mold removal, cut to the reading and dried. A house rebuilt over the winter that smells again in the humidity is mold odor removal.
Tierra Verde is unincorporated, so building permits and inspections for a rebuild come from Pinellas County Building Services rather than from the City of St. Petersburg, and the provider who rebuilds pulls them. The Bayway ends at Fort De Soto Park, five connected islands with seven miles of waterfront and a Spanish-American War fort, which sit at roughly the same elevation as the Tierra Verde canals and show what the open Gulf does to this end of the county in a storm.
Call (727) 382-7755 now and tell us what you see in your Tierra Verde 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.