Hudson Beach is the waterfront end of Hudson, where the Army Corps of Engineers blasted canals out of the limestone in the late 1950s and through the 1960s until there were more than 25 miles of them, one of the largest canal networks in the country. The beach itself was built by the people who lived here in the 1960s and is now Robert J. Strickland Memorial Park. The houses along the canals are 1960s block on slabs, with newer stilt homes mixed in.
On the night of September 26, 2024, Helene's water came up the canals faster than most people expected, rising four feet in an hour at one point, and fire trucks stopped at the water line while residents were still inside. A year earlier Idalia had put water through many of the same houses. Two floods in thirteen months means two rebuilds, and a lot of drywall hung over block that never dried.
Homeowners in Hudson Beach 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 house that flooded twice is whole-home mold remediation when the new walls read wet, and mold odor removal when they read dry but the house still smells on a humid morning. Dark growth on the drywall inside a kitchen cabinet is black mold removal, treated by extent and moisture. The rebuild goes through a county flood-zone review first.
Pasco County's Property Owners and Financial Resources page lists the FEMA flood maps and the grant and loan programs for elevating or flood-proofing a house, which is the conversation many Hudson Beach owners are having before they rebuild a third time.
Call (727) 353-1690 to be connected with a local mold provider serving Hudson Beach.
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.