Why this call
What is going wrong in a Garland house?
Downtown Garland and the streets just east of it still have pier-and-beam houses from the 1940s and 1950s. The water goes into the crawl space and the floor above it cups. Further east and north the city is slab ranches, heater in the garage, clay under the concrete. A crawl-space smell after the carpet looks dry means the older house. A warm garage slab means the newer one.
- Cupped floors and a wet crawl near downtown Garland.
- Garage heater water on an east or north slab ranch.
- A warm slab edge with no crawl space door anywhere.
Say downtown pier-and-beam or later slab. If you can open a crawl-space door, say whether it is wet before you talk about the carpet. That door is the whole difference.
The houses
What gets wet in Garland?
Downtown Garland and the streets just east of it still have pier-and-beam houses from the 1940s and 1950s. Further east and north, the city is slab ranches and later production houses on black clay. A crawl-space leak in old Garland smells like wet joists. A slab leak in Firewheel-era houses shows up at the baseboards.
The water
How does water usually get into a Garland house?
Duck Creek and Rowlett Creek are the drainage paths. After a heavy North Texas storm they can top low crossings. Inside the house, the common emergency is a burst hose or a water heater in a garage that was closed overnight. Say whether the water is creek water at the door or clean water from the plumbing.
The map
Which parts of Garland does this page cover?
Historic downtown, the neighborhoods off Broadway and Kingsley, and the east side toward Firewheel. Garland shares borders with Richardson, Rowlett, and Mesquite, each with its own page.
ZIP codes
Codes covered on this Garland page
- 75040
- 75041
- 75042
- 75043
- 75044
- 75045
- 75046
- 75047
- 75049
A shared ZIP can sit on a city line. Use the city the house is actually in, not only the number on the mail.