Shady Hills is the rural middle of Pasco, north of State Road 52 and east of the coastal towns, with about 12,000 people on acre lots under live oaks. The houses went up mostly between the 1980s and the early 2000s: block ranches, frame houses, and manufactured homes, most of them on private wells and septic tanks because the county water lines never came this far. A Del Webb community is on the way and will change that.
Nothing here flooded from the Gulf. Mold in Shady Hills comes from the ground and from the house itself: a well pump line that drips under the slab, a septic drainfield that keeps one side of the yard wet against the foundation, a manufactured home with a torn belly wrap, or a well-shaded house that never gets sun on its north wall and stays damp all summer.
Homeowners in Shady Hills 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.
Growth along the bottom of an exterior wall on the drainfield side of the house is mold removal, and the crew will want to know where the drainfield is before they cut. A manufactured home that smells musty with nothing visible inside is mold odor removal, and the crew opens the belly wrap. A dark patch on a ceiling under a shingle roof that is twenty years old is black mold removal, with the roofer close behind.
Crews Lake Wilderness Park, 113 acres on the west shore of Crews Lake off Shady Hills Road, is the local landmark, and the lake itself rises and falls with the aquifer that the neighborhood's wells draw from. Permits go through Pasco County, since Shady Hills is unincorporated.
Call (727) 353-1690 to be connected with a local mold provider serving Shady Hills.
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.