Mold Removal in Hollywood, FL

Hollywood Lakes, east of US 1, is the city's oldest neighborhood, with houses that date to the 1920s through the 1940s. Then Hollywood Boulevard was extended west in 1954, and by the start of the 1960s the city counted more than 12,000 single-family homes. Many of those postwar houses still have their original window frames, cast iron drains, and plaster over block.

Old plumbing is the quiet culprit in these homes. A pinhole in a supply line inside a wall can wet the plaster for a year before the paint blisters. Close to the Intracoastal, low lots also hold water after a heavy rain, and slab floors stay damp longer than the tile on top suggests.

Homeowners in Hollywood who call us reach an independent local mold provider. The provider comes out, looks at the house, and says what should happen next.

Requests that come in from Hollywood

Older walls hide old leaks, so most Hollywood jobs begin with the crew reading the wall with a moisture meter before any mold removal starts. A dark patch on a bathroom ceiling or behind a vanity in a 1950s bath becomes a black mold removal request, though color alone says nothing about the species. When growth has spread through plaster or drywall, mold removal with containment keeps dust out of the rest of the house while the material comes down.

Permits and the water utility in Hollywood

The Building Division works from Room 319 at City Hall, 2600 Hollywood Boulevard. Through ePermitsOneStop, a homeowner or contractor can file a Hollywood permit and any related Broward County permit in one submission, which matters when a rebuild touches plumbing and structure at once.

Hollywood's Department of Public Utilities serves more than 140,000 residents from wells in the Biscayne and Floridan aquifers. A sudden jump on the water bill is often the first hint of a hidden leak in one of these older houses.

Call (954) 519-7189 now. Tell us what you see or smell, and we put you through to a mold provider who works Hollywood.