A fire is over in minutes. The damage keeps working for weeks. Soot is still traveling through the house while the engine is packing up, acidic residue is already etching window frames and fixtures, and the water the crew put through the roof is sitting in wall cavities and under the flooring. United Water Restoration Group of Clearwater runs out of 3734 131st Avenue N, Unit #12, Clearwater, FL 33762, in the Gateway area next to the St. Pete–Clearwater airport. From that door, Pinellas Park is ten or fifteen minutes away, downtown St. Petersburg and downtown Clearwater about twenty, Largo and Seminole twenty to twenty-five, and Palm Harbor about half an hour. Someone answers at (727) 263-3778 at any hour, because the first night decides how much of the house survives. A fire loss is really four jobs stacked on each other: securing the building, removing soot and cleaning the structure, dealing with the contents, and drying the water used to put the fire out. Odor runs through all four. This page walks through each one, and through the parts that are specific to how houses here are built.
Clearwater is the county seat and the only one of our service-area cities with incorporated territory on a Gulf barrier island. That single fact shapes most of the water damage work we do here. Downtown sits on a bluff above Clearwater Harbor, high ground by Florida standards, while Clearwater Beach and Island Estates sit barely above the water that surrounds them. A few miles apart, two completely different jobs. Our shop is at 3734 131st Avenue N, Unit #12, Clearwater, FL 33762, in the Gateway area beside the St. Pete-Clearwater airport. From there, downtown Clearwater is roughly eight to ten miles northwest, about fifteen to twenty minutes on Roosevelt Boulevard or Ulmerton to US 19. We run the same routes out to Largo, Dunedin and St. Petersburg. The phone is (727) 263-3778, and it is answered around the clock, because water does not wait for business hours. This page explains what actually happens when water gets into a Clearwater house: how it moves, what it ruins, and what the work to put it right involves.
Crews dispatch 24/7 from our Clearwater base at 3734 131st Avenue N, Unit #12 and cover all of Clearwater — one local team, no subcontracted call centers. See all services in Clearwater or read more about fire & smoke damage restoration.
