Serenada is the large-lot neighborhood on the north side of Georgetown along Williams Drive, built from the mid-1970s into the 1980s on lots from a third of an acre to an acre and a half under old oaks and pecans. The houses are custom brick, stone, and limestone ranches on slabs, some with 1970s copper and cast-iron plumbing that has never been replaced. Many lots are outside the city limits and on septic. The original owners are aging out of these houses now, and the buyers who follow them inherit galvanized nipples at the water heater, a slab drain that has never been cleaned, and an irrigation system that was added in the 1990s with its own backflow valve out by the street.
The neighborhood sits on limestone above the North Fork, so the yards drain, but a forty-year-old slab holds water against the bottom plate the same as a new one.
This site connects Serenada homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider sees the house before anything is decided.
A cast-iron drain under the slab that failed and backed up into the hall bath is sewage cleanup. A water heater in a utility closet that let go is water extraction, and the crew meters the paneling and drywall on both sides of the closet. An original oak floor that cupped is hardwood floor drying before it is replacement.
Some Serenada streets are in the city and some are in the county, so the rebuild permit comes from whichever one the house sits in. Homes on septic need the crew to know that before a backup is diagnosed.
Call (512) 399-1654 and tell us what you found. We put you through to a local water damage provider serving Serenada.
Standing water pumped off a slab, a pier-and-beam floor, or a garage, then the first meter readings to see which walls it reached.
Cleanup after an attic or exterior-wall line split in a hard freeze, then drying of the ceilings, walls, and floors the thaw soaked.
Water pumped from under an Old Town pier-and-beam house, then joists and subfloor metered and dried from below.
Cupped long-leaf pine or engineered wood dried in place with mats and readings before anyone decides to tear it out.
Contaminated water and the flooring, drywall, and contents it touched removed under containment after a drain or main line backed up.
A failed hose or a clogged standpipe drained onto the laundry room floor and into the hall. The water is pulled and the walls metered.
Mud, debris, and contaminated water cleared after the San Gabriel or a creek came up, then wet materials removed and the house dried.
Drywall, trim, flooring, and paint put back after drying, with historic-district rules and city permits handled before the work starts.