Why this call
What is going wrong in a Plano house?
East Plano and the downtown streets are 1970s slab ranches. A leak there is a garage heater or a warm floor. West and north Plano are later two-story production homes, still on slabs, where an upstairs bath comes through a ceiling the east-side ranch does not have. Calling all of Plano a two-story ceiling opens ranch ceilings that are just the roof. Calling all of it a ranch never looks upstairs.
- A 1970s east-side ranch with a garage heater failure.
- A warm slab in an older east or downtown house.
- Ceiling water under an upstairs bath in west or north Plano.
Say east ranch or west two-story, heater or upstairs bath. Plano production houses repeat, but the floor count does not. The floor count is the schedule.
The houses
What gets wet in Plano?
East Plano and the streets around downtown are 1970s slab ranches. West and north Plano are later houses and a large number of two-story production homes, still on slabs, with the water heater in the attic or the garage. An attic heater that fails dumps water through the ceiling of the room below. A slab leak in an east-side ranch stays under the floor until the carpet is already wet.
The water
How does water usually get into a Plano house?
Spring Creek, Rowlett Creek, and the small tributaries flood low bridges in a hard rain. That is surface water. The call is for standing water from the plumbing: a supply line, an attic heater, or a slab leak that has come through the floor. Say which floor the water is on.
The map
Which parts of Plano does this page cover?
Downtown Plano, the east side off K Avenue, and the west side toward the Tollway are different vintages. Richardson and Carrollton are adjacent and have their own pages. Frisco and Allen are not on this dispatch list.
ZIP codes
Codes covered on this Plano page
- 75023
- 75024
- 75025
- 75026
- 75074
- 75075
- 75086
- 75093
- 75094
A shared ZIP can sit on a city line. Use the city the house is actually in, not only the number on the mail.