Sewage backup cleanup in Texas

Partner coverage for sewage and biohazard cleanup in Texas includes 684 ZIP codes, with local pages for Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Irving, Plano, Garland, Frisco, McKinney, Denton, Houston, Katy, Spring, Pasadena, Baytown, San Antonio, Grand Prairie, Richardson, Mesquite. Call with your ZIP to confirm a company serves your address.

In Garland: Original cast-iron sewer lines in 1950s–70s homes are past their typical service life. Backups and under-slab leaks often trace back to them. In McKinney: Homes near McKinney's historic square often have century-old clay or cast-iron sewer laterals. Tree roots from mature pecans and oaks get into the joints and cause backups that come up through floor drains and tubs. A camera inspection of the line is worth doing after any backup. In Houston: Decades of groundwater pumping caused subsidence across the Houston area. Combined with shifting clay, that movement cracks older cast-iron and clay sewer lines under slab homes, which leads to backups and slow under-slab leaks. In Sugar Land: Levee systems protect much of Sugar Land, but extreme river levels, as in 2016 and 2017, and local drainage backups still cause flooding concerns.

Most homes are slab-on-grade with water lines and HVAC equipment in the attic, from post-war ranches to large master-planned communities.

Texas doesn't license general contractors statewide, but it licenses mold assessors and mold remediation contractors through the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) for projects of 25 contiguous square feet or more.