Hudson was a fishing and shrimping town from the 1930s into the 1950s, and the houses west of US-19 still sit where the boats did. The canals were blasted out of the limestone in the late 1950s and through the 1960s, and the block ranch homes along them went up in the same years. Most are on slabs, a few feet above the water on a good day. The 2020 census put the median age here at nearly 60, and almost four in ten residents are over 65, so a lot of those houses have had one owner for decades and one storm too many.
Idalia pushed up to five feet of Gulf water into coastal homes on August 30, 2023. Helene did worse on September 26, 2024, with four to five feet inside houses along the canals. Many were dried by their owners with fans, painted, and lived in. The growth showing up now on new paint is often that water, still in the block.
Homeowners in Hudson reach an independent local mold provider through this site's phone line. The provider reads the house and explains what it needs. The site sets up the call.
A band of growth along a new baseboard in a house that flooded is the most common Hudson call, and it starts with mold removal: the crew meters the block, seals the room, and cuts to the reading. A house that took surge on every exterior wall becomes whole-home mold remediation, planned in zones. When the house looks fine but smells like the canal on a humid morning, mold odor removal goes looking for the wet material the fast rebuild covered.
Pasco County runs the water and sewer west of US-19 and issues the permits, and its Hudson Regional Library on Library Road doubles as the library system's headquarters and a place to read the county's flood study. East of the highway, SunWest Park sits in a former limestone mine with a 70-acre spring-fed lake, a reminder that the ground here is porous rock and water moves through it in both directions.
Call (727) 353-1690 to be connected with a local mold provider serving Hudson.
Containment, negative air, and removal of wet drywall, baseboard, and insulation, then HEPA cleaning and drying down to the block.
Dark growth handled by extent and moisture, not color: sealed room, porous material out, hard surfaces cleaned, source fixed.
A house that took surge water or sat closed all summer, mapped room by room, contained in zones, and cleared as one project.
Growth on roof decking and trusses above a leak or a sweating duct, cleaned and treated with the roof or venting problem addressed.
Coil, drain pan, condensate line, cabinet, and ducts cleaned or replaced when the musty smell rides in on the air handler.
Tracking a musty smell that outlasted the cleanup to the wet material behind it, removing that, then treating the air and surfaces.
Growth behind a vanity, under a tub, or in a ceiling that never dries, removed with the leak or the exhaust problem fixed first.
Drywall, trim, cabinet bottoms, and flooring put back after removal, only once the slab and block read dry and the source is fixed.