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.
Murray sits right off I-215 and State Street, call it fifteen minutes from our base, often less against traffic. The mid-century grid between 4500 S and 6400 S is familiar territory; we’ve dried a lot of these floor plans.
Murray combines two vintages of risk. Its pre-1970 homes still run galvanized supply lines that fail from the inside out, pinholes in walls, brown water after vacations. And its glorious mature trees have spent sixty years finding the clay sewer laterals underneath; root intrusion builds slowly until a heavy-use weekend backs sewage into the basement floor drain. If your basement drain gurgles after laundry, that’s the early warning. An annual camera inspection of the lateral costs little; a Category 3 cleanup costs a lot more.
Murray sits at the valley’s crossroads with the Jordan River and Little Cottonwood Creek running through it, century-old neighborhoods beside new towers, and infrastructure spanning both.
The Jordan River and Little Cottonwood Creek both cross Murray. Corridor blocks see high spring water tables, saturated yards, and the valley’s most reliable window-well intrusions in big melt years.
Original Murray cottages carry clay laterals and knob-era wiring; mid-century blocks carry galvanized; new condos carry shared-system risk where one failed valve wets six units.
Pre-war and mid-century walls insulate poorly by modern standards. Supply runs in original exterior walls freeze in the cold snaps that newer construction shrugs off.
Aging electrical in the historic core plus new high-density buildings equals both classic house-fire risk and multi-unit smoke spread. We restore both, and document per unit where walls are shared.
Murray gives us the valley’s widest span of building eras in one city, sometimes on one street. The historic core near State Street needs preservation-minded drying (plaster, original fir floors, clay laterals); the mid-century blocks need end-of-life plumbing triage; the new transit-corridor condos need shared-system documentation where a single supply failure crosses unit lines. We staff Murray calls accordingly, and the drive from West Jordan HQ is about fifteen minutes.
Water history runs deep here, literally: the river and creek corridors kept Murray green for a century, and they still set the spring water table. If your block is between State Street and the Jordan River Parkway, treat April dampness in below-grade rooms as an annual character trait to manage, seal the wells, grade away from the foundation, and keep a sensor at the low point. When something sudden fails instead, we’re minutes away around the clock.
Original exterior walls freeze; old radiators and boilers strain.
River and creek corridors push the water table into basements.
Cooler drips and supply failures; smoke from valley grass fires settles.
Clay laterals clog with roots as fall storms load the drains.
"Galvanized pipe let go inside a wall. They found the whole wet footprint with the thermal camera, stuff we’d never have caught."
Ray
Burst pipe, Murray
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.
Murray 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.