Bardmoor grew up around its fairways. The neighborhoods that spread out from Bardmoor Golf and Tennis Club through the 1970s and 1980s gave this corner of mid-Pinellas — between Largo and Seminole, near the Bryan Dairy and Starkey Road corridors — some of the county's most comfortable family homes: generous single-stories and two-stories on landscaped lots, block below, frame above, wood trim everywhere. Forty-plus years on, those exteriors are due, and bringing them current is a specialty of ours.
What Forty Florida Years Look Like
Homes of this vintage share a predictable list. Original single-pane aluminum windows that sweat, rattle and offer no storm protection. Wood fascia, soffit returns and gable siding that decades of humidity — and the neighborhood's enthusiastic irrigation — have softened at the ends and edges. Stucco with hairline cracking at bands and corners. And roofs on their second or third cycle, now the first thing every insurance carrier asks about. None of it is dramatic on any single day, which is exactly why it compounds: Bardmoor's mature oaks and steady sprinklers keep shaded elevations damp, and damp wood in Florida never gets better on its own.
