Water Damage Restoration in Dunbar, TX

Dunbar is the historic African American neighborhood of San Marcos, a few blocks south and west of the square and less than a mile from the Texas State campus. Freed families settled it after the Civil War, a freedmen's school opened in 1863, and by the early 1900s Martin Luther King Jr. Drive carried a row of Black-owned businesses. The city designated it a historic district in 2003. The houses are small frame homes from the 1900s to the 1940s on piers, a few 1960s brick houses, and a growing number of rentals and new builds filling empty lots.

Pier-and-beam houses have a crawl space, and a leak under one soaks the joists and the dirt instead of running across a slab, so it hides longer and smells first. The neighborhood sits on the limestone side of the fault near the river, and the old lines in these houses froze in February 2021.

This site passes Dunbar homeowners, landlords, and tenants to an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider checks every room with a meter before setting a scope.

Dunbar water damage under old floors

A damp smell and a soft spot in the floor of a 1920s house is a leak detection call, and the crew goes under the house before opening anything above. A pipe that split in the crawl space during the freeze is burst pipe water damage. Once the source is stopped, structural drying means air movers under the floor as well as in the rooms.

The 1873 jail, the students next door, and the rules in a historic district

The Calaboose African American History Museum keeps the neighborhood's story in the 1873 jail building on MLK Drive, and the district's historic rules can shape how an exterior repair is done. Many Dunbar houses are rented to students, and Texas State's Housing and Residential Life office publishes the off-campus resources a tenant can lean on when a landlord is slow to respond.

Call (737) 283-4979 and describe what you found. We pass the call to a local water damage provider serving Dunbar.