Why this call
What is going wrong in a Palmdale house?
Palmdale’s production slabs from the 1980s on keep the heater in the garage and the baths on a short wet wall. A hose failure in dry desert air still floods the garage and the slab edge, and the carpet hides a wet pad that does not flash-dry because the weather is hot. Older houses near the original grid are fewer and show the leak sooner because the plans are smaller and the finishes are thinner.
- Garage heater water running toward the house, not the driveway.
- A short wet wall with the bath and the next room both wet.
- Pad that is soaked under carpet that looked only damp.
Say garage heater or wet-wall bath, and whether this is a tract slab or one of the older houses. Hot weather does not finish the dry. The pad and the slab edge still have to come out or be dried on purpose.
The houses
What gets wet in Palmdale?
Palmdale is high-desert housing, mostly slab production houses from the 1980s on, with garage heaters and baths on a short wet wall. Older houses near the original town are smaller. Wind and big temperature swings stress supply lines and water heaters. A heater failure in a garage is a common way the floor gets standing water.
The water
How does water usually get into a Palmdale house?
Desert storms are short and hard, and streets sheet-flow. That outside water is not a plumbing call. Water from a burst line or a heater, standing in the house, is. Say if you are on a well or on city water if you know, and that you own the house.
The map
Which parts of Palmdale does this page cover?
The original town, the tracts east and west of the freeway, and the west side toward Quartz Hill. Lancaster is the next city north and has its own page. Quartz Hill is unincorporated.
ZIP codes
Codes covered on this Palmdale page
- 93550
- 93551
- 93552
- 93590
- 93591
- 93599
A shared ZIP can sit on a city line. Use the city the house is actually in, not only the number on the mail.