Coquina Key is a southeast St. Petersburg island neighborhood reached by a single causeway off 4th Street South, built out on fill in the 1960s and 1970s. The housing is single-story block ranches on canals, a large waterfront condo community on the south end, and a few newer elevated houses. Nearly all of it sits within a few feet of Tampa Bay.
Helene's surge on September 26, 2024, came across the island by midday and into living rooms, and Coquina Key was named with Shore Acres and Snell Isle among the first neighborhoods under bay water. The ranches took salt water into every exterior wall at once; the condo buildings took it through the ground floors and the shared mechanical rooms. Milton's rain followed on October 9.
Call us from Coquina Key and we put you through to an independent local mold provider who reads the walls with a meter before writing a scope.
A canal ranch 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. A ground-floor condo with growth along the shared wall is mold removal, documented so the association can see where the water came from. A house rebuilt over the winter that smells again this summer is mold odor removal.
Everything on Coquina Key comes and goes over one causeway, which is why the island was cut off during the surge and why contractors schedule the island in blocks. A rebuild after removal runs through the city's building department, which applies the substantial damage rules to flooded houses here, and the provider who rebuilds pulls the permit.
Call (727) 382-7755 now and tell us what you see in your Coquina Key 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.