Water Damage Restoration in San Marcos, TX
San Marcos grew up around the springs. The San Marcos River comes out of the Edwards Aquifer at Spring Lake at a steady 72 degrees, and the town was laid out beside it in 1851. The Victorian houses along Belvin Street date from the 1880s and sit on pier-and-beam, the ranch houses east of campus went up on slabs in the 1960s and 1970s, and the subdivisions climbing the hills west of Ranch Road 12 are mostly younger than 2010. Texas State University puts nearly 40,000 students in the middle of all of it, and a large share of the houses within a mile of campus are rentals.
The Balcones Fault runs under the city. Limestone to the west, Blackland clay to the east, and the Blanco River sweeping around the south side on its way to join the San Marcos. The May 2015 and October 2015 floods damaged more than 1,500 homes here, and Winter Storm Uri in February 2021 split lines in attics from one end of town to the other.
This site passes San Marcos homeowners, landlords, and tenants to an independent local water damage provider by phone. Readings first; paperwork after.
Water damage in San Marcos, from the river lots to the hill subdivisions
A warm tile and a doubled water bill in a 1970s house off Hopkins Street is a leak detection call before anything else. Silt across a Blanco Gardens garage after a night of sirens is flash flood cleanup, and the carpet it touched comes out. A stain spreading under an attic tank in a two-story off Wonder World Drive is water heater leak cleanup, and the ceiling is metered before it is cut.
The river that defines the town, and who looks after it
The San Marcos River Foundation has worked since 1985 to keep the river clean and flowing, and its volunteers are the people pulling debris out of it after every flood. If your house sits close enough to the river or the Blanco to have been wet in 2015, say so when you call; the crew will want to know whether the water was clean or came from outside.
Call (737) 283-4979 and tell us which part of town and which room. We pass the call to a local water damage provider serving San Marcos.
Services Available in San Marcos
Water Extraction
Standing water pulled off slab floors, tile, and rental carpet in a San Marcos house, then every room metered to see where it ran.
Structural Drying
Dehumidifiers and air movers run against Hays County humidity until drywall, cabinets, and subfloor read dry on the meter.
Leak Detection
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.
Burst Pipe Water Damage
Ceilings, walls, and floors soaked when an attic or exterior-wall line split in a freeze, extracted and dried after the valve closes.
Flash Flood Cleanup
Blanco River silt, Purgatory Creek runoff, and street water pulled out of a ground floor, ruined materials removed, and the house dried.
Water Heater Leak Cleanup
A failed tank in a garage, closet, or attic, with the ceiling, insulation, and walls below it metered and dried.
Ceiling Water Damage Repair
A sagging or stained ceiling under an upstairs bath, a roof leak, or an attic unit, opened only as far as the meter says.
Roof Leak Water Damage
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.