Rio Vista is the stretch of San Marcos along the river below downtown, around Rio Vista Park and the chutes where tubers put in all summer. The houses on the streets off Cheatham Street and C.M. Allen Parkway are a mix of 1920s to 1950s frame cottages on piers, small brick houses from the 1960s, and converted rentals full of Texas State students a short walk from campus and the square. Live music from Cheatham Street Warehouse carries across the neighborhood on weekends.
The San Marcos River is spring-fed and steady, but it backs up when the Blanco comes down in flood, and the low lots near the park took water in 2015. The older houses have crawl spaces where a leak runs unseen for weeks, and the rentals have the oldest water heaters in town.
This site passes Rio Vista homeowners, landlords, and tenants to an independent local water damage provider by phone. The scope is written from the meter readings, not from a glance.
A musty smell under a 1940s cottage is a leak detection call, and the crew checks the crawl space before the floor. A hall-closet water heater that rusted through in a student rental is water heater leak cleanup, with the slab under the hall and the bedrooms metered. River water across a floor near the park is flash flood cleanup.
The river that runs past Rio Vista comes out of Spring Lake a mile upstream, where the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State runs glass-bottom boats over the springs and studies the aquifer that feeds them. If your house is close enough to the river to have been wet in 2015, say so when you call.
Call (737) 283-4979 and describe what you found. We pass the call to a local water damage provider serving Rio Vista.
Standing water pulled off slab floors, tile, and rental carpet in a San Marcos house, then every room metered to see where it ran.
Dehumidifiers and air movers run against Hays County humidity until drywall, cabinets, and subfloor read dry on the meter.
A warm tile, a meter that will not stop, or a soft wall traced to a slab line or a wall pipe before anyone opens concrete.
Ceilings, walls, and floors soaked when an attic or exterior-wall line split in a freeze, extracted and dried after the valve closes.
Blanco River silt, Purgatory Creek runoff, and street water pulled out of a ground floor, ruined materials removed, and the house dried.
A failed tank in a garage, closet, or attic, with the ceiling, insulation, and walls below it metered and dried.
A sagging or stained ceiling under an upstairs bath, a roof leak, or an attic unit, opened only as far as the meter says.
Hail-cracked shingles and lifted flashing that let a storm into the attic, with the wet insulation and ceiling dried once the roof is covered.