Lake Hollingsworth is the big lake south of downtown with the walking loop around it, Florida Southern College on its north shore, and a ring of houses that run from 1920s Mediterranean Revival estates on the water to 1950s and 1960s ranches on the streets behind them. It is some of the most-walked and most-watched real estate in Lakeland.
Lakefront lots sit low and open to the weather off the water, and the older houses have stucco over frame, flat or low-slope roof sections, and porches that have been enclosed and conditioned. Each of those is a path for wind-driven rain. The ranches behind them are block on slab with closet air handlers.
A Lake Hollingsworth call on this line reaches an independent local mold provider who works the lake neighborhoods. That provider meters the house and writes the scope.
Many of the lakefront houses here have also been added onto repeatedly, with pool enclosures, second floors, and conditioned porches tied into the original roof. The valleys and wall joints those additions created are where a storm like Milton found its way in, and where a moisture meter finds the wet sheathing a year later.
A stain under a lake-facing window after a storm is mold removal. Streaks on the decking over an enclosed porch roof is attic mold remediation. A whole house that sat wet after Milton is whole-home mold remediation.
Florida Southern College holds the largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings anywhere, built from 1938 onward on the slope above the lake, and the campus was named a National Historic Landmark in 2012.
Call (863) 375-7712 and describe the wall or the ceiling. We put you through to an independent mold provider serving Lake Hollingsworth.
Growth on drywall behind a leaking supply line, a window that took wind-driven rain, or a wet slab edge: room sealed, wet board cut to the meter line, framing cleaned and dried.
A dark patch on a wall or ceiling handled by how far the water went, not its color: containment, porous material out, block and framing cleaned, leak fixed before closing.
A house that sat wet after Milton, Ian, or a burst line while you were away, mapped room by room and cleared in zones as one project.
Coil, drain pan, and condensate line cleaned or replaced when the air handler in a Lakeland closet or garage sweats through a nine-month cooling season.
Growth behind a vanity, under a shower pan, or on a bungalow bathroom ceiling with no fan, removed with the leak or the venting fixed first.
Growth on roof decking under lifted shingles or around a sweating duct, cleaned and treated once the roof and the insulation are dealt with.
A musty smell in a house that looks fine, traced to the wet material under the floor or behind the cabinet, then removed and treated.
Drywall, baseboard, cabinet bottoms, and ceiling put back after removal, once the slab and framing read dry and the water source is repaired.