Mountain City is a town of about 700 people tucked between Kyle and Buda off FM 2770, a mile west of I-35. The name goes back to an 1846 settlement that supplied farms and ranches before the Civil War; the present town incorporated in 1984 from a subdivision called Mountain City Oaks. The houses are mostly 1970s and 1980s brick ranches on half-acre and larger lots under live oaks, with a scattering of newer builds where lots were split.
The ground here is on the edge of the Blackland, with clay deep enough to move slabs through a wet-then-dry year. The houses are old enough that their original copper and galvanized lines have reached the end, and most have a water heater in the garage or a hall closet rather than the attic.
This site passes Mountain City homeowners to an independent local water damage provider by phone. Before any scope, the provider meters the floor and the bottom of each wall.
A warm floor and a rising bill in a 1978 ranch is a leak detection job before any concrete is touched. A galvanized line in an outside wall that froze and split in February 2021 is burst pipe water damage. A garage-closet water heater that finally rusted through is water heater leak cleanup, and the slab under the hall and the laundry gets metered.
Permits and lot questions go through the City of Mountain City, which is small enough that the people answering the phone know the streets. Tell the crew whether your house is on the city system or a well.
Call (737) 283-4979 and tell us what the floor feels like. We pass the call to a local water damage provider serving Mountain City.
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.