Kyle was a railroad stop laid out in 1880 when the International-Great Northern line came through, and for a century it was a farm town of a few thousand people along the tracks. Then I-35 filled in. Kyle passed 50,000 residents in the 2020s, and few cities in Texas have added people faster; nearly every house in it is a slab-built home in a subdivision platted after 2000, from Plum Creek on the east side to the newer sections west of the interstate.
All of Kyle sits on Blackland Prairie clay, and the Blanco River runs along its south edge. The river crested at 36.52 feet at the Kyle gauge on May 24, 2015, the highest since 1929, then beat that at 37.24 feet on October 30, 2015. Plum Creek, which gives the big neighborhood its name, floods low crossings in any hard rain.
This site passes Kyle homeowners to an independent local water damage provider by phone. No scope gets written until the provider has read the floors and walls.
A cracked tile and a damp baseboard that appeared together in a 2005 house is a leak detection job, because the clay under the slab has been working the line. A line that split in the attic in February 2021 is burst pipe water damage, and every wall below the break gets metered. Because the air here stays humid most of the year, structural drying runs on dehumidifiers rather than open windows.
Plumbing, electrical, and framing repairs inside the limits go through the City of Kyle, which also runs the city water system, so tell the crew who sends your water bill if the curb valve is stuck. The Plum Creek Watershed Partnership monitors the creek from Kyle down to Luling and is the place to look if you want to know what was in the water that came into the garage.
Call (737) 283-4979 and say which rooms are wet. We pass the call to a local water damage provider serving Kyle.
Standing water pulled off slab floors, tile, and rental carpet in a San Marcos house, then every room metered to see where it ran.
Dehumidifiers and air movers run against Hays County humidity until drywall, cabinets, and subfloor read dry on the meter.
A warm tile, a meter that will not stop, or a soft wall traced to a slab line or a wall pipe before anyone opens concrete.
Ceilings, walls, and floors soaked when an attic or exterior-wall line split in a freeze, extracted and dried after the valve closes.
Blanco River silt, Purgatory Creek runoff, and street water pulled out of a ground floor, ruined materials removed, and the house dried.
A failed tank in a garage, closet, or attic, with the ceiling, insulation, and walls below it metered and dried.
A sagging or stained ceiling under an upstairs bath, a roof leak, or an attic unit, opened only as far as the meter says.
Hail-cracked shingles and lifted flashing that let a storm into the attic, with the wet insulation and ceiling dried once the roof is covered.