Why this call
What is going wrong in a Carrollton house?
Old downtown Carrollton still has modest frame houses and a few pier-and-beam cottages near the square. A leak there is under the floor in a crawl space. North Carrollton, toward the Tollway and Hebron, is slab production housing on clay, and the leak is under the concrete or in a garage heater. The square and Hebron do not share a foundation. A call that only says Carrollton picks one of them at random.
- A crawl space under a frame house near the square.
- A warm clay slab in north Carrollton.
- A garage heater on a Hebron-side production house.
Say near the square or north toward Hebron, crawl space or slab. Pier-and-beam water is under the house. Slab water is in the concrete. Say which one you can already tell.
The houses
What gets wet in Carrollton?
Old downtown Carrollton still has modest frame houses and a few pier-and-beam cottages near the square. North Carrollton, toward the Tollway and Hebron, is slab houses and apartments from the 1980s through the 2000s. A leak in a 1950s cottage wets a crawl space and a wood floor. A leak in a north-side house travels under the slab and comes up at the edges of the tile.
The water
How does water usually get into a Carrollton house?
The indoor jobs are supply-line breaks and water heaters. The outdoor risk is the creeks that feed the Elm Fork, especially after a fast storm on already wet ground. The caller should say whether the water came from a fixture or from the creek.
The map
Which parts of Carrollton does this page cover?
The square, the streets off Belt Line and Josey, and the subdivisions north of Frankford. Carrollton touches Farmers Branch, Addison, and Plano. Only Carrollton’s own streets are this page.
ZIP codes
Codes covered on this Carrollton page
- 75006
- 75007
- 75008
- 75010
- 75011
A shared ZIP can sit on a city line. Use the city the house is actually in, not only the number on the mail.