Why this call
What is going wrong in a Arlington house?
South of Interstate 20, a lot of Arlington is still pier-and-beam near the old downtown. A supply line there wets a crawl space and cups a wood floor you can see. North and west, production slabs on clay hide the leak until the floor is warm, and the clay moves with the weather so a pinhole under the slab does not look like the crawl-space house. Entertainment District apartments add a third path: a riser into a neighbor’s ceiling.
- A crawl space and a cupped floor south of I-20.
- A warm slab in a north or west production house.
- A ceiling in an Entertainment District unit from the riser above.
Say pier-and-beam, slab, or apartment riser. Clay slabs and crawl spaces are both Arlington. They are not the same first hour, and Johnson Creek water in the street is a different sentence from either.
The houses
What gets wet in Arlington?
Arlington stretches from older neighborhoods south of Interstate 20, many of them pier-and-beam near the original downtown, to slab-on-grade production houses filling the north and west sides. The clay under those slabs shrinks in a dry summer and swells in a hard rain, and a plumbing leak under the slab shows up as warm spots in the floor before it shows up as a puddle. Entertainment District apartments are a separate building type: stacked units, shared risers, and water that crosses into a neighbor’s ceiling.
The water
How does water usually get into a Arlington house?
A standing-water call in Arlington is usually a burst line, a water heater in a garage, or a slab leak that has already come through the flooring. Johnson Creek and the low streets around it can hold stormwater, and that outside water is not the same claim as a pipe. The owner needs to say where the water is sitting and whether it is still rising.
The map
Which parts of Arlington does this page cover?
Downtown Arlington, the neighborhoods along Division and Park Row, North Arlington toward the stadiums, and Pantego’s edge are different houses. Pantego itself is its own city and is not on this list. Arlington is on it.
ZIP codes
Codes covered on this Arlington page
- 76001
- 76002
- 76003
- 76004
- 76005
- 76006
- 76007
- 76010
- 76011
- 76012
- 76013
- 76014
- 76015
- 76016
- 76017
- 76018
- 76019
- 76094
- 76096
A shared ZIP can sit on a city line. Use the city the house is actually in, not only the number on the mail.