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St. Petersburg and the rest of Florida: when a wall or floor stays wet long after the leak, one call puts it with a local pro.

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Many of these jobs start under the air handler or along a slab.

Why a Florida building stays wet: the four things that set that clock, laid out once for the whole state.

What keeps St. Petersburg buildings wet

Water in a ceiling, wall or slab in St. Petersburg, from Crescent Lake, Bay Breeze Cove, and Heritage Oaks across town, is one call away from a local restoration pro. St. Petersburg's Roser Park district sits along Booker Creek's ravine, its banks walled in concrete block since 1914 to keep them from subsiding.

The age of the buildings

1969 is the median build year in St. Petersburg, and 80 percent of the stock went up before 1990, an age that tends to settle whether the ductwork runs overhead through the attic or below the floor. More than a quarter of the homes here are in buildings of ten or more units, and in an apartment building of the late 1960s whose crank-out awning windows have lost the grip of their gaskets, outdoor air seeps past each closed sash onto a frame the cooled room has chilled, and water beads there and runs down into the sill and the wall below.

The humid season

August is the wettest month in St. Petersburg, with 9.33 of 52.48 inches, and it falls inside the stretch, from July through September, when the normal dewpoint holds at 70 or above, peaking at 76.1 in August; rain recorded at ST PETERSBURG 1.1 miles away and dewpoint at ST PETERSBURG INTL AP 10.6 miles away. Above Booker Creek, Roser Park's bluff-top houses stand on soil held back by block revetment walls, and through August, the wettest month, rain soaking into that bluff can leave only slowly, through or under the wall, so the ground beneath the houses' creek-side foundations stays wet between storms.

Where water settles in St. Petersburg

  • Crank-out awning windows in late-1960s apartment buildings, whose hardened gaskets let humid air reach a frame the room has chilled
  • Bluff-top houses in Roser Park above Booker Creek, on soil held back by block revetment walls that the wettest weeks soak from behind
  • Garage apartments behind older houses, their cooled floors laid over garages open to the summer air, where water condenses on the underside of the floor

Water Damage Restoration services in St. Petersburg

Start from what you found - a stain, a wet floor, or a wall that will not dry. Local pros working St. Petersburg pick it up from there.

Areas covered around St. Petersburg

More Florida towns are on the locations page.

Frequently asked questions

Why do the crank-out windows in an older St. Petersburg apartment drip?

More than a quarter of St. Petersburg homes are in buildings of ten or more units. Where one of the late 1960s still has crank-out awning windows, their gaskets harden over time, and the closed sash no longer seals. Outdoor air seeps in onto the metal frame, which the cooled room has chilled, and water beads on it and runs into the sill and the wall below. New gaskets stop the seepage.

What holds up the ground under the bluff-top houses of Roser Park?

Concrete block walls. In 1914 the neighborhood's developer walled the ravine banks along Booker Creek, 5 to 6 feet high, to keep the soil beneath the houses above from subsiding, and some sections were later rebuilt as concrete slab walls. Through August, rain soaking into the bluff behind those walls drains only slowly through or under them, so the ground at the houses' creek-side foundations stays wet.

How does the floor of a garage apartment behind an older St. Petersburg house get damp?

In Roser Park most houses have an outbuilding, usually a garage apartment, garage or shed, built at the same time and of the same materials. A garage apartment's floor is the garage's ceiling. With the apartment cooled, the underside of that floor runs colder than the humid summer air in the garage below, and water condenses on it and soaks into the boards. Insulating and sealing the garage ceiling keeps that air away.

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If water is still coming in, close the main shutoff, or switch the air handler off if the water is coming from it, before calling.

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