Cain Road is the neighborhood in southeast Olympia along Cain Road between Henderson Boulevard and Boulevard Road, south of Interstate 5 and north of the Yelm Highway. It was orchards and pasture until the 1960s, and then it filled in over two decades with the ramblers, split-entries, and tri-levels that Olympia's growth years produced: three bedrooms, an attached garage, a low-pitched roof with wide overhangs, and a quarter-acre lot under Douglas firs that are now eighty feet tall. Pockets of 1980s and 1990s houses on cul-de-sacs fill the gaps, and the streets connect to the Chehalis Western Trail on the old rail line.
The ground is glacial till and it holds water. The ramblers were built with low crawl spaces, vents at grade, and downspouts that dump at the foundation, so a saturated lawn in December drains straight under the house, and the November 2021 atmospheric river filled crawl spaces from Cain Road to Boulevard. The water heater is in the garage against a bedroom wall, the hose bib on the north wall runs through unheated space, and both failed by the dozen in the arctic weeks after Christmas 2021 and before Christmas 2022. The tall firs drop limbs on those low-pitched roofs in every southwest windstorm.
This site puts Cain Road homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider who meters before anyone cuts.
A crawl space that filled through the vents in a November storm is a crawl space water extraction, and the fiberglass hanging between the joists comes out with the water. A garage tank that let go against a bedroom wall is a water heater leak cleanup. A fir limb through the shingles and a spreading ring on the family room ceiling is roof leak water damage.
Rebuild permits for drywall, plumbing, and wiring go through the city's Permit Center; the pumping and drying need none. When the crew opens a 1970s wall here, they often find particleboard underlayment under the vinyl and original aluminum wiring in the walls, and both change the scope. Tell the provider what year the house was built when you call so the crew arrives ready for it.
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 Cain Road.
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.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run against daily readings until joists, subfloor, and plaster reach a dry target in a damp Puget Sound winter.
Water pumped out from under a craftsman or rambler after a wet-season storm, then the joists, insulation, and vapor barrier checked and dried.
Cleanup after an old galvanized line or a frozen hose bib split, with the wall, floor, and crawl space below it metered and dried.
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.
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.
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.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried after a windstorm lifted shingles or moss-clogged gutters sent water behind the fascia.