Water Damage Restoration in Westside, WA
The Westside is everything across the Fourth Avenue bridge from downtown Olympia, from the older blocks along Harrison Avenue and Division Street out to the Capital Mall, Black Lake Boulevard, and the edge of the Cooper Point peninsula. The blocks nearest the bridge date from the 1900s to the 1930s, but most of the Westside is what Olympia built after the war: 1950s ranch houses on the flat ground near Harrison, 1960s and 1970s ramblers and split-entries on the rolling ground toward Yauger Park and Ken Lake, and the 1978 Capital Mall that pulled the city's shopping across the water for good.
The ground is glacial till, wetter than the outwash gravel under Lacey, and the postwar houses were built with low crawl spaces, vents at grade, and downspouts dumping at the foundation. In a wet winter a saturated lawn drains straight under the house. The ramblers carry the water heater in the garage on a wall shared with a bedroom, and the hose bib on the north wall runs through unheated space. The arctic weeks after Christmas 2021 and before Christmas 2022 split those lines across the Westside, and the November 2021 atmospheric river filled crawl spaces from Division Street to Black Lake.
This site connects Westside homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider meters before anyone cuts.
Westside water damage in a postwar rambler
A crawl space that filled through the vents in a November storm is a crawl space water extraction. A garage tank that let go against the bedroom wall is a water heater leak cleanup, and the bedroom carpet is usually part of it. A frozen hose bib that split inside the garage wall is a burst pipe cleanup.
The hospital on Black Lake Boulevard
The Westside's landmark after the mall is MultiCare Capital Medical Center, the hospital on Black Lake Boulevard that opened in 1985 as the city's second, and the medical offices that grew up around it employ a good share of the neighborhood. Rebuild permits go through the city's Permit Center; the pumping and drying need none.
Call (360) 364-8868 and say which part of the house is wet. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving the Westside.
Services Available in Westside
Water Extraction
Standing water pulled off fir floors, tile, and concrete on any level of an Olympia house, then the first moisture readings on the walls it reached.
Structural Drying
Air movers and dehumidifiers run against daily readings until joists, subfloor, and plaster reach a dry target in a damp Puget Sound winter.
Crawl Space Water Extraction
Water pumped out from under a craftsman or rambler after a wet-season storm, then the joists, insulation, and vapor barrier checked and dried.
Burst Pipe Water Damage
Cleanup after an old galvanized line or a frozen hose bib split, with the wall, floor, and crawl space below it metered and dried.
Storm and River Flood Cleanup
Mud, debris, and outside water removed after the Deschutes, the Chehalis, or a king tide came into the house, with soaked materials cut out and the rest dried.
Leak Detection
The source of a stain, a damp floor, or a high water bill traced with meters and thermal imaging before anyone cuts into plaster or lath.
Water Heater Leak Cleanup
A tank that let go in a garage, a utility closet, or a crawl space, with the floor and the walls around it dried before the new tank goes in.
Roof Leak Water Damage
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried after a windstorm lifted shingles or moss-clogged gutters sent water behind the fascia.