Water Damage Restoration in Shady Shores, TX

What does a 1920s fishing camp leave behind in a modern town?

Not the cabins, necessarily. We found no source that says any original camp building survives, and this page will not suggest it. What the history leaves is a pattern: a settlement that began small, beside the water, and filled in over decades, so lots near the shore tend to be older and smaller than those further in.

Older houses can have older supply lines, cast-iron or galvanized drains and original sewer laterals, and those can fail in ways newer plastic and copper do not. If the house predates the 1980s, ask about asbestos in joint compound, textured ceilings and old flooring before anything is torn out, and think about lead paint on pre-1978 walls.

Small footprints also tend to grow by additions: a room added on, a garage converted, a porch enclosed. An addition has its own roof tie-in and its own plumbing branch, and those joints are where leaks start. The crew checks where old and new meet before it calls a wall dry.

Why did Shady Shores incorporate, and why does that matter today?

The town incorporated in 1960, mostly to avoid annexation by Denton, according to Wikipedia and Texas Escapes. The result is a small, independent town of its own, with its own offices, not a neighborhood of a larger city. Plumbing and electrical permits for a repair are a matter for Shady Shores.

The 2021 permit-fee waiver was Lewisville's decision, covering Lewisville's own storm repairs, and no source we found extends it here. Call the town office, and keep a copy of the permit and the inspection with your moisture readings and photographs, since your insurer may ask for the paper trail.

A small independent town is quick to reach by phone. Stopping the damage does not wait for a permit, but a permit is needed when plumbing or electrical repair begins, so make the call early.

Its neighbor Lake Dallas is a separate city with its own offices, which is why the street address, not the lake view, decides who issues the permit.

How does the lake's rise and fall affect a north-shore lot?

The lake's normal conservation pool is 522 ft, its spillway top is 532 ft, and on May 31, 2015 it reached a pool of record of 537.02 ft. The lake took its present form in the late 1950s, so the shoreline here has changed within living memory.

No source says Shady Shores homes took lake water in 2015, and we make no such claim. What owners should know is that lake water is flood water, handled as Category 3 and generally outside a standard homeowners policy. Our flood damage cleanup page explains how it is cleaned and dried.

For a north-shore owner, a plan looks like this: know the main valve, photograph the lowest floor and its contents once a year, and ask your agent whether a separate flood policy makes sense. Flood policies generally take about 30 days to take effect, so the time to ask is before wet weather.

What does the crew do first in an older house?

It asks for the age of the house, then checks for hidden moisture with a meter and a thermal camera before opening anything. If the wall or ceiling material may contain asbestos, the work pauses until it is tested. Wet carpet and pad come out early, and drying equipment goes in on the remaining materials.

A lab tests a sample, and the result decides whether wet drywall can come out with an ordinary crew or needs a specialist abatement contractor. Asbestos and lead abatement are not part of this service, and the crew will say so instead of guessing. The wait costs a day or two and avoids spreading fibers through the house. Drying goes on in parallel where it can, and the readings, photographs and a list of removed materials go to the homeowner.

If the wet drywall turns out to be a sewage backup instead, see sewage cleanup for how that job differs.