Carmel is the newest large neighborhood on this site, the master-planned community east of SH 130 along Weiss Lane and Pflugerville Parkway where Ashton Woods, Pulte, Gehan, Brohn, and Brightland have been building since 2016 and are still building. The houses are one- and two-story slab homes on 40- to 60-foot lots with PEX plumbing, tankless or attic water heaters, and spray-foam attics in the newer sections. Much of the land was farm fields five years ago.
New slabs on Blackland clay go through their sharpest movement in the first decade, as the soil under a freshly graded lot settles into its wet-and-dry cycle, and that is when the first hairline cracks and the first PEX fitting failures appear.
Carmel homeowners who call this line reach an independent local water damage provider. The provider walks the house with a meter before anything is decided.
A PEX fitting under the slab that let go in a 2019 house is a slab leak detection call, and the crew will want the builder's plumbing diagram if you have it. A supply line in an attic that was not spray-foamed and split in the January 2024 freeze is burst pipe water damage. A washer hose that failed across the utility room is water extraction first, then drying.
The Pflugerville Community Development Corporation, funded by a half-cent city sales tax, has spent the last decade recruiting employers to the SH 130 corridor that Carmel sits on, which is why the fields east of the highway are filling in so fast. Carmel is inside the city, and rebuild permits go through Pflugerville's building inspections desk.
Call (512) 855-6202 and tell us how old the house is. Carmel calls go to an independent local water damage provider.
Water pumped and vacuumed off slab floors, tile, and carpet in a Pflugerville house, then every room metered to see how far it traveled.
Dehumidifiers and air movers run against Blackland Prairie humidity until drywall, cabinet bases, and subfloor read dry on the meter.
A warm tile, a cupped hallway floor, or a meter that spins with every tap closed traced to the slab line before any concrete opens.
Ceilings, walls, and floors soaked when an attic or garage line split in a February freeze, pumped out and dried once the valve is off.
Gilleland or Wilbarger Creek water and street runoff pulled out of a garage or ground floor, soaked materials removed, and the house dried.
An attic or garage tank that let go and the insulation, ceiling, and flooring it soaked on the way down, dried and documented.
A stained or sagging ceiling under an upstairs bath, an attic air handler, or a drain pan, opened only where the readings say wet.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried after hail, a spring downpour, or wind found a gap in a Pflugerville roof.