Sorento is the DR Horton and Pacesetter neighborhood less than a mile from Lake Pflugerville on the east side of the city, built out by 2015 with homes from 1,100 to 3,000 square feet around a pool, a clubhouse, and trails. It is one of the newer slab neighborhoods on this site, with PEX plumbing throughout, attic water heaters in the two-stories, and lots that back to the open land between the subdivision and the lake.
The houses are young enough that the first water heater is still in place, and the clay under them is still in its first decade of swelling and shrinking under the slab. That is when PEX fittings and slab edges show their first faults.
We route Sorento homeowners to an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider takes meter readings first and writes the scope from them.
A PEX fitting that let go under the slab and lifted the laminate is a slab leak detection call, and PEX leaks are quieter to trace than copper. An attic line that split in the January 2024 freeze is burst pipe water damage, and the walls below get metered with the ceiling. After a storm puts street water in the garage, creek flood cleanup treats it as contaminated.
Sorento sits on the flat ground west of Lake Pflugerville that drains slowly toward Wilbarger Creek, and a storm that stalls over the east side puts water in the streets before the creek has risen. The homeowners association handles dumpster and contractor rules, and rebuild permits go through the city.
Call (512) 855-6202 and tell us what the floor is doing. An independent local water damage provider serving Sorento takes it from there.
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.