Round Rock took its name from the anvil-shaped rock in the bed of Brushy Creek where wagons and cattle crossed in the 1850s, and the town spent its first century as a limestone-and-cotton village of about 1,400 people. Then came the 1970s. The population went from under 3,000 in 1970 to nearly 120,000 by the 2020 census, and almost all of that growth is slab-on-grade subdivisions strung along I-35, US 79, and the creek. Dell moved its headquarters here in the 1990s, and the Round Rock Express have played at Dell Diamond on the east side since 2000.
Two soils sit under those houses. West of the interstate the ground is limestone off the Balcones Escarpment; east of it the Blackland clay begins, and clay moves. That is why slab leaks are a normal call here, why the February 2021 freeze split so many attic lines, and why Brushy Creek can be in a garage an hour after a cloudburst.
This site routes Round Rock homeowners to an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider walks the house before anything is written down.
A warm tile and a doubled bill in Chandler Creek or Forest Creek is a leak detection job before it is anything else. An attic line that let go in a freeze in Teravista or Behrens Ranch soaks the ceiling and the walls below, and burst pipe water damage work follows the water down. When the creek rises, the garages along Lake Creek and Brushy Creek East need flash flood cleanup, which treats the water as contaminated.
The ponds at Old Settlers Park, 670 acres of ballfields on the east side, went over their spillways on Memorial Day 2015, and the same storm put water into homes along Lake Creek Circle and Meandering Way. The city's own water utility can shut a meter at the curb if the house valve will not turn. On the east side, Dell Diamond and the Round Rock Express sit on Palm Valley Boulevard, and the subdivisions around the ballpark are the ones on clay.
Call (512) 562-9101 and tell us what you found. We route the call to a local water damage provider serving Round Rock.
Standing water pumped off slab floors, tile, and carpet in a Round Rock home, then the first meter readings to see where it spread.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run against Central Texas humidity until drywall, cabinets, and subfloor hit their dry target.
A warm spot on the floor, a spinning meter, or a soft wall traced to a slab line or a wall pipe before anyone breaks concrete.
Rooms, ceilings, and floors soaked when an attic or exterior wall line split in a freeze, pumped out and dried once the valve is off.
Muddy creek water and street runoff pulled out of a garage or ground floor, contaminated materials removed, and the house dried.
A tank that let go in a garage, hall closet, or attic and the drywall, flooring, and ceiling it soaked on the way down.
A stained, sagging, or dripping ceiling under an attic air handler, an upstairs bath, or a drain pan, dried and opened only where wet.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried out after hail, a spring storm, or the 2022 tornado season found a way through the roof.