Mold Removal in Lighthouse Point, FL

Lighthouse Point is a city of canals. Most of its homes back up to finger canals that run out to the Intracoastal, and many of the older ones were built low to the water with block walls and low-slope roofs. Salt air works on window frames and roof flashing, and a seawall home gets wind-driven rain from the water side that inland homes never see.

Hurricane Wilma in October 2005 is the storm people here still measure by. The city served as a distribution point for ice, food, and water after it, because so much of the area was without power. Homes that lost roof tile in Wilma and dried out slowly in the weeks after are the same homes where an attic check turns up old growth today.

Homeowners in Lighthouse Point who call us reach an independent mold provider who works the north Broward coast. The provider looks at the house and does whatever it needs.

Lighthouse Point calls, in rough order

Finding the source comes first for waterfront homes, because the moisture can be coming from the roof, the window side, or the slab, and the mold removal scope depends on which. Dark growth on a ceiling or inside a closet on the canal side brings requests for black mold removal, sized by extent and moisture rather than by how it looks. Sellers on the water want the mold damage repair finished and photographed so the buyer's inspector sees a completed job, not an open wall.

Permits, city water from next door, and the license question

The City of Lighthouse Point Building and Zoning Department takes permit applications online and in person and posts inspection results through its public portal. Water is not a city service; it comes from the City of Pompano Beach Utilities Department, which serves Lighthouse Point along with Pompano Beach and Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.

Florida issues one license for mold assessors and a separate one for mold remediators, and state rules restrict the same company from assessing and then remediating the same home. Both licenses can be looked up at MyFloridaLicense.com.

Call (954) 519-7189 now and tell us what you see in your Lighthouse Point home.