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 Seminole 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.
Seminole is a small city — about five square miles, mostly flat, crossed by Park Boulevard and US 19, sitting along the lower portion of Lake Seminole with Long Bayou and Boca Ciega Bay off to the southwest. It is not a beach town. Madeira Beach sits immediately west and Indian Rocks Beach to the northwest, and both are separate cities out on the barrier islands. That geography matters when water gets into a house here, because Seminole's exposure comes off the bayou and the bay side rather than the open Gulf, and because the housing is mainland housing: single-story concrete block on a slab. United Water Restoration Group of Pinellas County works out of 3734 131st Avenue N, Unit #12 in Clearwater, over in the Gateway area beside the airport. From the shop to Seminole is roughly nine to eleven miles, twenty to twenty-five minutes by Park Boulevard or by Ulmerton to Seminole Boulevard. The phone is answered around the clock at (727) 263-3778, and the rating on that work currently stands at 4.93 stars across 169 reviews.
Crews dispatch 24/7 from our Clearwater base at 3734 131st Avenue N, Unit #12 and cover all of Seminole — one local team, no subcontracted call centers. See all services in Seminole or read more about fire & smoke damage restoration.
