On-site within 90 minutes anywhere in our service area, 24/7. A real person answers every call.
Keep your phone nearby. If water is still spreading, shut off the main valve now, it’s usually in the basement or crawl space, on the street-facing wall.
Across the valley on I-215 to the Highland Drive exits, Holladay is about twenty-five minutes from our West Jordan base. Worth saying plainly: that’s still faster than most companies dispatching from a central yard, and we treat east-bench finishes with the care they were built with.
Holladay’s namesake cottonwoods are magnificent and merciless: their roots have had seventy years to find the clay sewer laterals under these lots, and root-intrusion backups are our most common Holladay call. The stakes are higher here because the basements are beautiful, theater rooms, wine storage, guest suites, and a Category 3 backup into finished space is the most expensive kind of water loss a home can take. If your lot has mature cottonwoods between house and street, scope the lateral annually and treat any drain gurgle as a warning shot, not a quirk.
Holladay is the valley’s mature-tree, mature-plumbing city: gracious lots, older systems, and creek and ditch lines that remember when the whole bench was orchards.
Holladay’s 1950s–70s core still carries original galvanized supply, cast-iron drains, and clay sewer laterals under big trees whose roots find every joint. Slow failures here hide behind plaster and hardwood.
Big Cottonwood Creek and legacy irrigation ditches thread the city. Spring runoff saturates the old orchard soils, and buried ditch lines nobody mapped surface as mystery water in basements.
The canopy that makes Holladay beautiful is fuel in a dry August, and canyon smoke settles here early. Smoke residue in a finished home is a real, claimable loss we remediate.
Many Holladay homes predate modern insulation. Supply runs in original exterior walls and additions over crawl spaces freeze in cold snaps newer homes ignore.
Holladay work is older-home work: plaster walls that wick silently, hardwood over original subfloor worth saving, and plumbing that predates every code cycle since Eisenhower. We bring the preservation mindset here, cavity drying and rescue-mat floor systems before demolition, because a 1958 Holladay ranch loses something real every time a wall comes out. Documentation matters double in these homes; insurers ask harder questions about older systems, and our cause photos answer them.
The other Holladay signature is water history. This bench was orchards, and the ditches, laterals, and creek branches that watered them still move spring water under modern lots. When a basement east of Highland Drive gets mystery moisture in May, the answer is usually geology plus a 70-year-old drain line, not a plumbing failure, and telling those apart correctly is the difference between a covered claim and a landscaping project. We meter, map, and tell you straight.
Original exterior walls freeze first; additions over crawl spaces follow.
Orchard-era soils saturate; legacy ditch lines surface as basement moisture.
Canopy cures and canyon smoke settles early into the bench.
Root-bound clay laterals clog with the first storm-driven surge.
"Roots blocked the lateral and the basement bath backed up. Containment was up fast and they saved the wood floor in the next room."
Steven
Sewage backup, Holladay
A real person answers 24/7, not a call center.
Thermal imaging and moisture mapping find everything that’s wet.
Water out and drying equipment placed on the same visit.
Every reading logged. We bill your insurer directly.
Holladay crews dispatch from our West Jordan HQ and cover the whole valley; the Park City office backs up the Wasatch Back. One number reaches both: (801) 459-2437.
On-site within 90 minutes, any hour of the night.