Bayway Isles is a gated waterfront neighborhood of about 300 houses on two islands off the Pinellas Bayway at the southwest corner of St. Petersburg, developed from the 1960s onward. The houses run from original single-story block ranches on the canals to large newer two-story and elevated homes, all of them with deep-water docks on Boca Ciega Bay.
Helene's surge on September 26, 2024, came across the canals and into the ground floors of the older ranches, and the Bayway itself was closed while the islands to the south were cleared. The elevated houses took water into garages and ground-level storage. Milton's rain and wind followed on October 9, and the salt air on this corner of the city keeps whatever got wet from drying on its own.
Homeowners in Bayway Isles who call us reach an independent mold provider who works in the neighborhood. That provider reads the walls and does the removal.
An original ranch that stood in bay water is whole-home mold remediation, with the block cleaned of salt before anything goes back. An elevated house where only the garage and storage flooded is mold removal, cut to the reading and dried. A house that smells again every humid morning is mold odor removal, and the search starts in the block.
Bayway Isles shares its corner of the city with Eckerd College, whose 188-acre waterfront campus along Frenchman's Creek sits at about the same elevation and saw the same water in September 2024. A rebuild after removal runs through the city's building department, and the neighborhood's own association has its own approval step; the provider who rebuilds pulls the city permit.
Call (727) 382-7755 now and tell us what you see in your Bayway Isles 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.