Picture Rocks sits on the west side of the Tucson Mountains, over Gates Pass or around by Ina and Sandario Roads, where the Avra Valley opens out toward the Silver Bell range. About 9,000 people live in the unincorporated community, most on acre-plus lots with a 1970s to 1990s site-built or manufactured home, a well or a small water company hookup, and a septic tank. There are no curbs and no storm drains; Picture Rocks Wash and the sheet flow off the west slope of the Tucson Mountains cross the roads and the driveways as they please every monsoon.
A manufactured home on a permanent foundation has a crawl space, one of the few places in the Tucson area where water can collect under the floor instead of spreading across a slab. A site-built ranch out here sits on a slab like everything else, with a flat roof and a cooler on top.
This site routes Picture Rocks homeowners to an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider meters the floor and the crawl space before a scope goes on paper.
A well line or pressure tank that split in a hard freeze is burst pipe water damage, and the floor of every adjoining room gets read. A home on the low side of a lot where sheet flow came through the door in a July storm is monsoon flood cleanup. A cooler pan on a flat roof that overflowed into the ceiling is ceiling water damage repair.
The Tucson Mountain District of Saguaro National Park runs along the community's southern and western edge, and its road closures during a storm are the local sign that the washes off the range are running. Rebuild permits in Picture Rocks go through Pima County, and a septic system that took on floodwater is a separate conversation with the county health department.
Call (520) 422-6139 and tell us what the sheet flow carried into the house. We route the call to a local water damage provider serving Picture Rocks.
Standing water pulled off saltillo, tile, and carpet on a Tucson slab before it wicks into block walls and the bottom of the drywall.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run until block, stucco, drywall, and cabinets read dry, even after a monsoon week pushes the humidity up.
A spinning meter, a warm patch of tile, or a damp baseboard traced to a pinholed copper line under the slab before concrete is cut.
Rooms soaked when an exposed hose bib line, a cooler supply, or an attic pipe split in a hard desert freeze, pumped out and dried.
Silt and wash water pulled out of a garage or ground floor after a monsoon storm, contaminated materials removed, and the house dried.
A tank that let go in a garage, laundry closet, or outdoor alcove and the flooring and drywall it soaked before anyone noticed.
A stained or sagging ceiling under a rooftop cooler, a package AC unit, or a pooled parapet section, dried and opened only where wet.
Wet insulation, ceilings, and walls dried after a flat roof ponded, a scupper clogged, or a July storm drove water under the coating.