Storm & Flood Damage Recovery in College Station, TX

Two things, and both are cheap. Leave the air conditioning set to a moderate temperature rather than off, because indoor humidity in a closed Texas house climbs high enough to support growth on interior surfaces without any leak at all. And shut off the water supply if nobody will be there, since a slow leak in an empty house runs for weeks. A monthly walkthrough catches what neither prevents.

On this soil they are entangled and the order of investigation matters. Clay movement breaks lines under slabs, and leaking lines wet clay and drive more movement. Start with a pressure test rather than a foundation opinion. If the lines hold, the water is arriving from outside and the answer is drainage. If they do not, locate and repair the leak before anyone evaluates the slab, because the assessment will be wrong while a leak is running.

Because the clay is at its most open. A dry spring cracks these soils to depth, and the first inch of a May storm goes straight down those fissures to beam level, wetting soil that then swells against the foundation. Once the clay closes, later storms mostly run off the surface. The damaging rain is often not the largest of the season but the first one after the ground has dried out.