San Gabriel Heights is the older neighborhood on the northwest side of Georgetown along Williams Drive, built from the late 1960s into the 1980s on lots that back up to the North Fork and the ridge above it. The houses are brick ranches on slabs, some with original copper supply lines and cast-iron drains, and a few older pier-and-beam houses on the streets closest to the river. Mature oaks shade the streets and send roots into the drain laterals.
The North Fork below the neighborhood is controlled by the Lake Georgetown dam a few miles upstream, so the river here rises on the dam's release schedule as much as on the rain.
This site connects San Gabriel Heights homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider sees the house before writing a scope.
A cast-iron drain under the slab that rusted through and backed up into the hall bath is sewage cleanup. A water heater in a utility closet that let go is water extraction, with the paneling on both sides of the closet metered. An original oak floor that cupped after a dishwasher leak gets hardwood floor drying before replacement is discussed.
San Gabriel Heights is inside the city, so rebuild permits come from Georgetown and the shutoff is in the meter box at the curb. Homes on the river side should tell the crew if the crawl space or the yard has taken water before.
Call (512) 399-1654 and tell us what you found. We put you through to a local water damage provider serving San Gabriel Heights.
Standing water pumped off a slab, a pier-and-beam floor, or a garage, then the first meter readings to see which walls it reached.
Cleanup after an attic or exterior-wall line split in a hard freeze, then drying of the ceilings, walls, and floors the thaw soaked.
Water pumped from under an Old Town pier-and-beam house, then joists and subfloor metered and dried from below.
Cupped long-leaf pine or engineered wood dried in place with mats and readings before anyone decides to tear it out.
Contaminated water and the flooring, drywall, and contents it touched removed under containment after a drain or main line backed up.
A failed hose or a clogged standpipe drained onto the laundry room floor and into the hall. The water is pulled and the walls metered.
Mud, debris, and contaminated water cleared after the San Gabriel or a creek came up, then wet materials removed and the house dried.
Drywall, trim, flooring, and paint put back after drying, with historic-district rules and city permits handled before the work starts.