Water Damage Restoration in Governor Stevens, WA

Governor Stevens is the small neighborhood south of South Capitol along Capitol Way, running down toward the Tumwater line and the freeway interchange where Interstate 5 and Highway 101 meet. It is named for the territory's first governor, and it filled in later than its neighbors to the north: a few 1910s and 1920s houses on the blocks nearest the Capitol, then 1930s and 1940s cottages and the compact postwar ranch houses that state workers bought after 1945. The houses are modest, the lots are level, and many still have their original one-car garages and fir floors.

The ground is the same Capitol bluff till as South Capitol and Wildwood, and the crawl spaces under these houses are shallow and wet from November to March. The neighborhood slopes toward Capitol Lake on the west, and the low blocks nearest the lake take groundwater at the crawl space wall every wet season. Galvanized supply lines from the 1930s and 1940s are still common, and the freeway's storm drains, when they back up in a November atmospheric river, put water across the yards on the east edge. The arctic weeks of December 2021 and December 2022 froze lines under bathrooms here as they did across the older city.

This site connects Governor Stevens homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider meters under the house first.

Governor Stevens water damage in a postwar cottage

A crawl space with standing water along the lake-side wall after a December storm is a crawl space water extraction. A galvanized line that split in the cold is a burst pipe cleanup. A stain on a ceiling after a windstorm worked the shingles on a 1940s roof is roof leak water damage.

Buses, permits, and the lake below

The neighborhood's spine is Capitol Way, and the buses of Intercity Transit run it from Tumwater to downtown every few minutes, which is how a good share of these households get to the Capitol and back without a car. Rebuild permits for plumbing, wiring, and structure go through the city's Permit Center; the pumping and drying need none. The lake at the bottom of the hill is on its way back to being a tidal estuary, and the low blocks nearest it will keep their high winter water table either way.

Call (360) 364-8868 and say whether the water is under the house or in it. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Governor Stevens.