Why this call
What is going wrong in a Sierra Madre house?
Cottages stepped against the San Gabriels take water two ways, and only one of them is a crew call. An early-1900s cottage with a wood floor stains and cups from a supply line in a wall. A house higher on the slope takes runoff at the uphill foundation after a winter storm, which is a different event and a different sentence. Mixing them up sends the wrong equipment onto a narrow foothill street.
- Cupped wood floors in an older cottage below the canyon streets.
- Water entering at the uphill side of a house cut into the slope.
- A mechanical closet on a tight lot that has already overflowed downhill.
Say whether the water started inside a wall or came in from the slope, and whether the cottage has a wood floor or a later slab. Standing water inside the house is the job. A damp garden after a storm is not.
The houses
What gets wet in Sierra Madre?
Sierra Madre is a small foothill town of early-1900s cottages and later houses stepped up against the mountains. Many of the older cottages have wood floors and crawl spaces. The lots are tight, and a water heater often sits in a back porch or a hall closet rather than a garage.
The water
How does water usually get into a Sierra Madre house?
The mountains are the water story. Debris and runoff come down the canyons in a hard winter storm and push at the uphill side of houses. A burst supply line in a cottage is a different call: clean water on the floor, owner on the phone, crew to schedule. Say which one you have.
The map
Which parts of Sierra Madre does this page cover?
The streets off Sierra Madre Boulevard and the canyon edges above Grand View. Pasadena and Arcadia are the neighbors, and both have their own pages.
ZIP codes
Codes covered on this Sierra Madre page
- 91024
- 91025
A shared ZIP can sit on a city line. Use the city the house is actually in, not only the number on the mail.