The Lake Morton neighborhood wraps the lake at the south edge of downtown Lakeland, where swans descended from a pair sent by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957 still nest along the shore. The houses on the streets around it, platted from 1906 on, are frame bungalows, Mediterranean Revival stucco, and Tudor Revival brick, with the public library and the Lake Mirror promenade a block or two away.
Stucco over frame is the construction to watch here. A 1920s stucco house with a hairline crack at a window takes a little water in every sideways rain, and the wood sheathing behind the stucco holds it. Frame bungalows next door have the crawl-space and no-fan-bathroom habits of every old house in the city.
A Lake Morton call on this line reaches an independent local mold provider working downtown's old neighborhoods. That provider reads the walls and tells you the scope.
A stain spreading from a window on a stucco wall is mold removal. Spots on a bathroom ceiling in a room with no fan is bathroom mold removal. A dark patch on a hall ceiling under an air handler in a converted closet is black mold removal.
A block east, Lake Mirror Park and its 1928 promenade and loggia were laid out by Charles Wellford Leavitt, and the American Planning Association named it one of its Great Places in America in 2014.
Call (863) 375-7712 and tell us what you see. An independent mold provider serving Lake Morton takes it from there.
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.