Water Damage Restoration in Old Town, TX

Old Town is the Georgetown that predates the slab: the blocks around the courthouse square, the Belford district north of it, University Avenue and Elm Street east toward Southwestern, and Olive Street south of the campus. The houses are frame Victorians and bungalows from the 1870s through the 1930s, most built by the Belford Lumber Company, standing on cedar posts and stone piers with long-leaf pine floors and a crawl space under them. The cast-iron and clay drain lines under many of them are as old as the houses.

The Beaux Arts courthouse at the center, designed by Charles H. Page and built between 1909 and 1911, was restored and rededicated in 2006. The San Gabriel runs just north of the district, and the July 2025 flood stopped short of the houses but not of the park below them.

This site connects Old Town homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider walks the house before any scope is written.

Old Town water damage under a pine floor

Water that went through the floor of an 1890s house is a crawl space water extraction job first and a drying job second. The pine floor above gets hardwood floor drying mats and daily readings rather than an automatic tear-out. A drain backup from a root-choked clay lateral is sewage cleanup, and the crew treats the crawl space as contaminated too.

Design review before the siding goes back on

Any rebuild visible from the street in the historic districts goes to the city's Historic and Architectural Review Commission for a certificate of appropriateness before the permit issues. The Texas Historical Commission tells the story of the courthouse restoration that set the standard for the square, and it is a good place to see what the review expects of a period-correct repair.

Call (512) 399-1654 and say what got wet. We put you through to a local water damage provider serving Old Town.