Water damage in Castro Valley, with no city hall
Castro Valley sits under the East Bay ridge, unincorporated and aging. SOS Restoration of East Bay vacuums the water up and restores the rooms it soaked. You can talk to us in Spanish, and checking it out is free. Call (341) 220-0032.
Somebody answers and a van leaves. Looking is on us. CSLB #1131134 · IICRC #70194273
and the van is loaded before the call ends
the whole arc, from the first hour to the last coat
across Alameda and Contra Costa counties
IICRC #70194273
Who signs off on repairs in Castro Valley?
Castro Valley answers to the county, not a city hall.
Alameda County, because the town never incorporated.
With no city government, the county issues the permits and enforces its own soft-story retrofit rule. A rebuild here files through Alameda County, so we pull the record before drawing a thing.
How old are Castro Valley's houses?
The typical home dates to 1964 — oldest of the valley towns.
70.4 percent of the 21,718 houses predate 1980, on lath and first-run copper. The lead-paint ban did not arrive until 1978. We test a paint chip before opening a wall on a water job.
Which utilities serve Castro Valley?
EBMUD for water; CVSan runs the sewer.
Here it is EBMUD at the tap and Castro Valley Sanitary District on the drain. Different districts run the water from town to town here. We call the pair that covers your street.
Does every Castro Valley leak need a crew?
No — if a meter reads dry an inch into the drywall, you are done.
A small spill you caught and dried may need nothing more. The test is a moisture reading an inch deep, not how the surface looks. We would rather hand you a dry number than sell you fans.
Who runs a Castro Valley job to the end?
One crew, from the first pump to the last brushstroke.
Nobody new shows up for the finish. IICRC #70194273 covers the drying, CSLB #1131134 the rebuild, built for a home of the 1960s. Ask the dispatcher what your Castro Valley street needs.
Which office is not the city's?
There is no City of Castro Valley: permits come from the county, and the sewer belongs to the district.
Castro Valley Sanitary District owns that main. Sending you to a city hall that does not exist would cost you a day, so we name the county counter instead.
A 1964 house. What gets sampled?
Seventy percent of these 21,718 homes went up before 1980, so we test before we cut.
The median sits inside the presumption window for lead paint. Asbestos was still in joint compound and flooring well into that decade too.
Which utility bills the water?
EBMUD supplies it. The sewer is a separate district with its own number.
Two agencies, two responsibilities. We name the right one on the first call rather than telling you to ring your water company and hope.
Water damage
Mold
Fire & smoke
Storm damage
Sewage cleanup
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Where our crews go
Unincorporated, so the county answers the permit desk instead of a city hall. Hillside ranch houses above the boulevard, creek-bottom lots below it, and a crawlspace under most of them.
Rather write it than talk? Leave it here and we call you back.
The number is the part that matters. The rest just tells us which crew to send and how far up the road they are going.
Old ridge-town pipe hides a leak well, so read the wall early. Dial (341) 220-0032 for the nearest crew.
Sewage, storm damage, mold, fire and smoke, water, and the reconstruction that follows them, for Oakland and the twenty-four East Bay cities around it. Any hour, any day. Se habla español.