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Quick Dry Restoration provides restoration services in Leander, TX: water damage restoration, mold remediation, fire and smoke damage restoration and the rebuild afterward, for homes and businesses. Mold jobs run under Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation license RCO 1589, the phone is answered 24 hours a day, and we can bill your insurance carrier directly. Call (512) 540-4747.
We work all over Leander, from Old Town around N Brushy St to Crystal Falls, Mason Creek, Vista Ridge and Travisso west of US 183, and in neighboring Cedar Park and Georgetown too.
The first visit is a free on-site evaluation. We take moisture readings, photograph the damage for your adjuster, and leave a written line-item estimate before anything is torn out.
Leander treats Lake Travis water at two plants, and in February 2021 only one was running. BCRUA had been offline since a raw-water intake line broke in December 2020. Sandy Creek lost power 15 times during Winter Storm Uri. The whole city went on a boil-water notice from February 16 to 23 and was warned of two days or more without water. Not the only one: nine boil-water notices in 2019, a six-day notice in July 2020 at peak summer demand, about seven weeks of Phase 4 conservation in early 2024 while BCRUA’s underwater pipeline was repaired. When a line lets go here, the crew stops the source, runs industrial water extractors, meters every wall, and sets commercial dehumidifiers. See burst pipe cleanup and water damage restoration.
Storms are different. The North Fork San Gabriel gauge at Ronald Reagan Blvd, about 8 miles north of downtown, hit a record 44,500 cfs on July 5, 2025. That weekend Big Sandy Creek shifted the only bridge into the Sandy Creek neighborhood, unincorporated Travis County with Leander addresses, and cut off about 200 homes.
Quick Dry Restoration holds Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Mold Remediation Company license RCO 1589, and a TDLR-licensed Mold Remediation Contractor leads every job. The Leander mold work we see most often started as water that sat. A pipe that split during the February 2021 freeze, in a house where the family had no running water for days, stayed wet long past the 24 to 48 hours the EPA gives before mold takes hold in drywall and insulation. A slow water-heater leak does the same thing over months. The evaluation is free and on site: a technician looks at the growth, takes moisture readings, and writes a line-item estimate. At 25 contiguous square feet or more, Texas requires an independent licensed mold assessment consultant to write the protocol and confirm the clearance. We work from that plan. Read mold remediation in Leander for the step-by-step version, or licensed mold remediation for the full service.
In one summer, 2011, three brush fires burned inside Leander neighborhoods. The Grand Mesa Fire on June 16 burned 60 acres, evacuated 100 homes and threatened 700. The Horseshoe Fire on August 15 burned 30 acres and destroyed 15 mobile homes. The Moonglow Fire on September 5 destroyed 11 homes and damaged nine in Mason Creek North. The city keeps a Community Wildfire Protection Plan, Travisso has been a Firewise community since 2020, and Fire Station 5 opened at the Travisso entrance, 2800 Travisso Pkwy, in September 2021. A kitchen fire and a brush fire that reaches the siding need the same work: board-up, smoke and soot removal, contents pack-out, and rebuild. Fire damage restoration.
Once the structure is dry, our reconstruction crew rebuilds it. In homes this new the scope is usually drywall, insulation, baseboard, flooring and paint back to the builder’s finish, plus cabinets when a leak ran under them. Permits come from the City of Leander Permits & Building Inspection Division at 201 N Brushy St (512-528-2733), and applications and status checks go through the city’s online Development Hub. Leander builds to the 2021 ICC code package, and an application expires 180 days after filing if it goes quiet. In a mapped floodplain, finished floor must sit two feet above base flood elevation, a rule the city adopted with Atlas 14 rainfall data on June 18, 2020. Reconstruction services.
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All of Leander’s drinking water is surface water from Lake Travis, treated at two plants. The city owns the Sandy Creek plant, run by the Brazos River Authority at about 9 million gallons a day. The BCRUA plant is shared with Cedar Park and Round Rock. Together they treat about 24 million gallons a day. When BCRUA shut down for underwater pipeline repairs in February 2024, Leander’s capacity fell to 9 MGD and customers went to Phase 4 conservation for about seven weeks. One plant down means the smaller one carries the whole city. For a homeowner that means pressure that drops and returns, then air in the lines that the city flushes out of hydrants afterward. Sandy Creek also shuts down on schedule for capacity work, with the city leaning on BCRUA under Phase 2 conservation while it does. Know where your main shutoff is before the next notice, not during it.
Leander runs from the 1882 railroad townsite around N Brushy St out to Hill Country subdivisions west of US 183, and the build year tells us what to expect behind the walls.
Most of the houses we work in here are on their first owner. About 62.6 percent of Leander’s housing was built in 2010 or later, and 17.3 percent in 2020 or later. Next door in Cedar Park, that share is about 31 percent. A house that new still floods. Water heaters fail, supply lines split, and a builder punch-list leak can sit behind a wall until the drywall shows it. What a new house lacks is a loss history, so nobody knows where the water travels or which wall holds it. Moisture meters and infrared cameras show us.
We document the loss the way adjusters want it: photos before and after, moisture readings by room and by day, and a line-item estimate. We talk to your adjuster directly and can bill the carrier when the claim is approved. One Leander note. A burst pipe or a failed water heater is usually a sudden, covered loss. Rising water from a San Gabriel fork or the creek behind the house is a flood, and a standard homeowners policy does not cover flood. That takes a separate flood policy, so check which one you hold before you call the carrier.
What happened to Leander’s water during the February 2021 freeze?
Leander went on a citywide boil-water notice from February 16 to 23, 2021. The city’s only working plant, Sandy Creek, lost power 15 times that week, and the BCRUA plant had been offline since a December 2020 intake line break. The city warned customers they could be without water for two days or more and said refilling tanks and mains could take five to seven days. A pipe that split that week in a house with no water to test it may not have shown itself until pressure came back.
My house was built after 2015. Can it really have water damage?
Yes, and in Leander that describes most houses. About 62.6 percent of the city’s homes were built in 2010 or later. Water heaters, supply lines, and dishwasher connections fail on a schedule that has nothing to do with the age of the framing, and a new house has no record of where water went the last time. We meter the walls instead of guessing.
Who issues the permit to rebuild after a loss in Leander?
The City of Leander Permits & Building Inspection Division, 201 N Brushy St, 512-528-2733, through the online Development Hub. If the house is in a mapped floodplain, City Engineering at 512-528-2766 answers floodplain questions and the finished floor rule is two feet above base flood elevation. We pull the permit as part of the reconstruction scope.
Can you sample or test for mold in my Leander home?
No. Quick Dry Restoration does not test or sample; we provide a free on-site evaluation and a written estimate for remediation. Sampling, the written protocol, and the clearance on jobs of 25 contiguous square feet or more are done by an independent licensed mold assessment consultant, and Texas keeps that role separate from the company doing the removal. We coordinate with the assessor from the first visit to the clearance.
Call (512) 540-4747 and tell us what is wet, burned, or growing. We will ask where the water came from, if it is still running, and what has been shut off, then confirm when a crew can leave Pflugerville. Quick Dry Restoration, 1019 S Heatherwilde Blvd, Suite 120, Pflugerville, TX 78660. TDLR Mold Remediation Company license RCO 1589.
