Why this call
What is going wrong in a Irving house?
South Irving is modest 1960s and 1970s slabs, original baths, garage water heaters, clay under the floor. A pinhole in that slab wets the pad from below. Las Colinas is a different city inside the same name: mid-rise and townhome plumbing, ceilings, shared risers, mechanical closets that are not a south-side garage. Sending a garage-heater crew to a Las Colinas ceiling wastes the call.
- Pad wet from below in a south Irving slab ranch.
- A garage heater flood in those same modest houses.
- A Las Colinas ceiling or closet leak with no garage slab at all.
Say south Irving slab or Las Colinas, and floor-from-below or ceiling. They are both Irving. They are not the same building, and the owner has to be the one on the phone.
The houses
What gets wet in Irving?
South Irving still has modest slab houses and apartments from the 1960s and 1970s, with original baths and garage water heaters. Las Colinas is a different city inside the same city: mid-rise apartments, townhomes, and office towers with sprinkler risers and mechanical rooms. A leak in south Irving soaks one house. A leak in a Las Colinas tower can run down several floors before the alarm is anything but a neighbor’s ceiling.
The water
How does water usually get into a Irving house?
The Elm Fork and the dry creeks through south Irving are the outdoor risk. The indoor risk is a burst supply or a water heater. Bear Creek and the Trinity side of the city will collect stormwater in a big rain. The caller has to separate that from water coming out of the plumbing.
The map
Which parts of Irving does this page cover?
South Irving along Belt Line and Story, the Valley Ranch side, and Las Colinas around Lake Carolyn. Irving borders Dallas and Grand Prairie, which have their own pages.
ZIP codes
Codes covered on this Irving page
- 75014
- 75015
- 75016
- 75017
- 75037
- 75038
- 75039
- 75060
- 75061
- 75062
- 75063
A shared ZIP can sit on a city line. Use the city the house is actually in, not only the number on the mail.