Why this call
What is going wrong in a Addison house?
Addison is offices, hotels, and mid-rise apartments along Belt Line and the Tollway, not a street of bungalows. A failed supply on an upper floor runs into the unit below before anyone sees it on the sidewalk. Garden-apartment heaters sit in interior closets, so the bedroom is wet while the corridor still looks fine. A hotel or an office lobby is only this call when you own the property and the water is standing inside it.
- The unit below already wet from a stack or a hose above.
- A closet heater that soaked a bedroom before the hallway.
- A lobby or ground-floor unit with water that started upstairs.
Say upper-floor supply or closet heater, and whether you own the unit that is wet. Addison does not sit in a floodway. Street splash after a short storm is not the indoor loss.
The houses
What gets wet in Addison?
Addison is a small town built around offices, hotels, and mid-rise apartments along Belt Line Road and the Dallas North Tollway. Most of the housing is garden apartments and a thin band of townhomes from the 1980s and 1990s, not a street of prewar bungalows. Water heaters sit in interior closets, and a failed supply line on an upper floor runs into the unit below before anyone sees it on the sidewalk.
The water
How does water usually get into a Addison house?
The emergencies here are indoor: a burst hose on a water heater, a washing-machine supply that lets go overnight, or a sprinkler head in an office park. Addison does not sit in the Trinity floodway. Standing water in a ground-floor apartment or a lobby is the job. Street flooding after a short storm is a different event, and the caller needs to say which one it is.
The map
Which parts of Addison does this page cover?
Belt Line, the Tollway corridor, Quorum, and the apartment blocks south of Arapaho are where the calls come from. Addison is surrounded by Dallas, Farmers Branch, and Carrollton. Farmers Branch is not on this dispatch list.
ZIP codes
Codes covered on this Addison page
- 75001
A shared ZIP can sit on a city line. Use the city the house is actually in, not only the number on the mail.