Why this call
What is going wrong in a Dallas house?
East Dallas and Oak Cliff still have pier-and-beam bungalows. A supply line wets the crawl space and cups plaster and wood while the yard looks ordinary. North Dallas and the later suburbs inside the city are slabs on clay. The floor goes warm and the baseboard stains with no crawl space to inspect. Apartment stacks in Uptown and Oak Lawn add ceilings. Dallas is not one foundation, and the crew is scheduled for the one you actually have.
- A wet crawl space under an East Dallas or Oak Cliff bungalow.
- A warm clay slab in a later north or east ranch with no crawl.
- A ceiling in a stack apartment from the unit above.
Say the part of Dallas and the foundation: pier-and-beam, slab, or apartment ceiling. Trinity flood water in the street is not a plumbing call. Water from a line, a heater, or a stack is.
The houses
What gets wet in Dallas?
Dallas is not one housing stock. East Dallas and Oak Cliff still have pier-and-beam bungalows with plaster, crawl spaces, and floors that cup when a supply line runs all night. North Dallas and the neighborhoods east of White Rock are dominated by slabs, where a hot-water leak under the concrete shows up as a warm room and a rising water bill before the water reaches the hall. Older apartment courts in Oak Lawn and East Dallas have galvanized risers. A break on the second floor is standing water in two units.
The water
How does water usually get into a Dallas house?
The Trinity and its floodway will put water in the streets of West Dallas, Cadillac Heights, and parts of Oak Cliff during a major rise. That is river water. The call this line is built for is water standing inside because a pipe, heater, or supply failed. The two get confused after a storm, and dispatch has to hear which one it is. A slab leak that has already surfaced in a North Dallas ranch is the indoor job.
The map
Which parts of Dallas does this page cover?
East Dallas, Lakewood, the M Streets, Oak Cliff, Kessler, Bishop Arts, Oak Lawn, Preston Hollow, and Lake Highlands are all Dallas and they do not leak the same way. Highland Park and University Park are separate cities and are not on this list. Carrollton, Garland, Irving, and Mesquite have their own pages.
ZIP codes
Codes covered on this Dallas page
- 75201
- 75202
- 75203
- 75204
- 75205
- 75206
- 75207
- 75208
- 75209
- 75210
- 75211
- 75212
- 75214
- 75215
- 75216
- 75217
- 75218
- 75219
- 75220
- 75221
- 75222
- 75223
- 75224
- 75225
- 75226
- 75227
- 75228
- 75229
- 75230
- 75231
- 75232
- 75233
- 75234
- 75235
- 75236
- 75237
- 75238
- 75239
- 75240
- 75241
- 75242
- 75243
- 75244
- 75245
- 75246
- 75247
- 75248
- 75249
- 75250
- 75251
- 75252
- 75253
- 75254
- 75258
- 75260
- 75261
- 75262
- 75263
- 75264
- 75265
- 75266
- 75267
- 75270
- 75275
- 75277
- 75283
- 75284
- 75285
- 75286
- 75287
- 75295
- 75301
- 75303
- 75310
- 75312
- 75313
- 75315
- 75320
- 75323
- 75326
- 75334
- 75336
- 75339
- 75340
- 75342
- 75343
- 75344
- 75346
- 75353
- 75354
- 75355
- 75356
- 75357
- 75359
- 75360
- 75363
- 75364
- 75367
- 75368
- 75370
- 75371
- 75372
- 75373
- 75374
- 75376
- 75378
- 75379
- 75380
- 75381
- 75382
- 75386
- 75387
- 75388
- 75389
- 75390
- 75391
- 75392
- 75393
- 75394
- 75395
- 75396
- 75397
- 75398
A shared ZIP can sit on a city line. Use the city the house is actually in, not only the number on the mail.