Old Town is the original Pflugerville, the grid of streets around East Main Street and Railroad Avenue where the German farm village stood before the subdivisions arrived. The East Main Street Historic District holds the 1900s storefronts, and the surrounding blocks are 1910s to 1960s frame and brick houses, many on pier-and-beam foundations, with a scattering of new infill houses on slabs. This is the one part of the city where a leak can drip into a crawl space instead of spreading across a slab.
Gilleland Creek runs right past Old Town, and Gilleland Creek Park sits on its bank at 700 Railroad Avenue. The old houses have cast-iron drains, galvanized or early copper supply lines, and additions plumbed in three different decades.
Old Town homeowners who call this line reach an independent local water damage provider. The provider looks under the house as well as inside it.
A kitchen leak in a 1930s pier-and-beam house means water extraction that includes the crawl space, where water sits on the dirt and keeps the joists wet. A 1960s brick house on an early slab with a warm floor is a slab leak detection call. A ceiling stain under an old roof after a spring storm is roof leak water damage, and the roofer goes first.
The Heritage House Museum, run by the city library, keeps the record of the farm town these streets belonged to. Gilleland Creek Park, twelve acres with the city pool, sits on the creek's bank a few blocks away, and when the creek is up over the park's low ground the streets closest to it are next.
Call (512) 855-6202 and tell us whether the house has a crawl space. Old Town calls go to an independent local water damage provider.
Water pumped and vacuumed off slab floors, tile, and carpet in a Pflugerville house, then every room metered to see how far it traveled.
Dehumidifiers and air movers run against Blackland Prairie humidity until drywall, cabinet bases, and subfloor read dry on the meter.
A warm tile, a cupped hallway floor, or a meter that spins with every tap closed traced to the slab line before any concrete opens.
Ceilings, walls, and floors soaked when an attic or garage line split in a February freeze, pumped out and dried once the valve is off.
Gilleland or Wilbarger Creek water and street runoff pulled out of a garage or ground floor, soaked materials removed, and the house dried.
An attic or garage tank that let go and the insulation, ceiling, and flooring it soaked on the way down, dried and documented.
A stained or sagging ceiling under an upstairs bath, an attic air handler, or a drain pan, opened only where the readings say wet.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried after hail, a spring downpour, or wind found a gap in a Pflugerville roof.