Crawlspace, Slab or Basement: A Treasure Valley House-Type Guide
What your house is sitting on, and where water goes in each.
MERIDIAN · DOWNTOWN MERIDIAN
Water Damage Restoration in Downtown Meridian
An older house near downtown with a wet floor, a damp crawlspace or a line that split in the cold? Say where it's wet.
- Drying, mitigation and repair
- Meridian-area restoration companies
- Ada & Canyon County
Downtown Meridian: Block Notes
- Built: the oldest part of town, with homes from the early twentieth century onward mixed with later infill
- Under the floor: a mix of crawlspaces and older basements, some with stone or block foundations
- Nearest canal or drain: the irrigation laterals that ran past the original town site
- What usually fails first: older supply and drain lines, and lines in outside walls during a freeze
The Village That Started in 1903
Meridian was incorporated as a village in 1903 with roughly two hundred people, according to the city's History Center. The name came from an Odd Fellows lodge that took it from the meridian line Idaho's land surveys are measured from. Some of the houses near the old town center date from the decades that followed, and they tend to have the water problems of their age: galvanized or early copper supply lines, cast-iron drains, small basements that were dug before anyone thought about groundwater, and crawlspaces with little insulation. What you see in an older house is often slow: a stain under a bathroom, a floor that feels soft near the tub, a basement corner that's damp every summer. What it usually means is a leak or seepage that's been going on for a while.
From Downtown Meridian Kitchens and Crawlspaces
Older houses often hide water in places newer ones don't, under old flooring layers or behind plaster. A company will want to check under the house and may take readings in more than one layer of floor.
The pages that fit most Downtown Meridian calls: ceilings, walls and drywall, floors and carpet, crawlspaces and basements, frozen and burst pipes, or the full restoration and mitigation job.
If an older house has a basement that only gets damp in summer, the timing alone is worth mentioning on the call.
Field Notes for Downtown Meridian
The Canals, Laterals and Drains Behind Meridian Subdivisions
The irrigation water running past your back fence, and who runs it.