Cypress, TX

Cypress is not one house. Closer to Cypress Creek and the older commercial strips, you see ranches and two-story houses from several decades, mostly on slabs. In the newer master-planned sections, the houses are larger, the kitchens are open, and a lot of the slabs are post-tension, with cables in the concrete. Cutting a post-tension slab to move a drain is not the same job as cutting an older slab. We locate the work before anyone cuts.

Cypress Creek is the flood story. Sections near the creek have taken storm water. A detention pond in a new subdivision is how that section holds rain. It is not a promise that a street never ponds. A house that took creek water and a house with a burst washing-machine hose need different drying and, often, different insurance conversations. Your insurer decides coverage. We document the path we can see.

Northwest Harris County sees spring hail. Roofs on these houses are mostly asphalt, some of them large and cut up with dormers. We look at the slopes that face the storm, not only the elevation. Wind lifts ridge caps. A tarp belongs on an opening. A roof that is bruised but closed is an inspection, then a repair or a replacement, said after the walk.

Two-story plans put water heaters and supply lines in attics. A freeze or a failed pan dumps water into the ceiling. The garage heater is the other common one: it floods the garage and then the room next to it if the slab is flat. We trace that path. Drywall that wicked water at the base comes out where it is wet. A wall is not closed wet.

Kitchen remodeling in the newer houses is often a finish and layout tune: cabinets, a larger island, lighting, flooring that crosses into the living room. In the older houses it can be a closed kitchen and a wish to open it. Baths in the new houses are large primary suites. Baths in the older houses are tighter. Both get waterproofing before tile. A glass panel does not make a shower waterproof.

Flooring in the new houses is often tile on the slab and carpet upstairs. People call when they want the carpet gone or the tile replaced with a wood look. Vinyl plank does that if the slab is flat. Real wood needs a dry slab and time in the house before it is fastened. After a creek flood, the first question is whether the slab and the walls are dry, not which sample you liked.

Parts of Cypress are in the City of Houston, parts are in Harris County, and some nearby streets fall under other cities. The address picks the permit. Associations in the planned sections usually care about the roof and the exterior. Call (713) 909-0034. The drive is US 290 or the Beltway. We set a window because the freeway changes the time.