Water Damage Restoration in Lacey, WA

Lacey incorporated in 1966 with a few thousand people and now has more than fifty thousand, and few cities in the South Sound have grown as quickly. Almost all of its housing went up after the city was born: ramblers and split-entries from the late 1960s and 1970s around Long Lake, Hicks Lake, and Pattison Lake, two-story subdivisions from the 1980s and 1990s off Ruddell Road and Mullen Road, and the newer tracts north of Interstate 5 in Hawks Prairie. The ground is glacial outwash gravel, which drains well, and that is both the good news and the trap.

Well-drained gravel means the lakes and the water table move with the rain. In a wet winter Long Lake and Pattison Lake rise into low yards, Woodland Creek spreads across its flats, and crawl spaces that stayed dry for a decade take water the one December the ground finally fills. Most Lacey houses have low crawl spaces with vents at grade and a water heater in the garage on a wall shared with a bedroom.

This site puts Lacey homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider who takes readings before setting the scope.

Lacey water damage in a 1970s rambler

A garage tank that let go against the bedroom wall is a water heater leak cleanup, and the carpet on the other side of the wall is usually part of it. A crawl space that took water through the vents when the lawn saturated in a November storm is a crawl space water extraction. A hose bib on the north wall that froze during the arctic week after Christmas 2021 and split inside the garage is a burst pipe cleanup.

Who inspects the rebuild and where the lakes drain

Rebuild permits for drywall, plumbing, and wiring after a water loss go through the City of Lacey, which also runs the city's water and storm systems and is the right call for a storm drain backing up at the curb. Lacey's drinking water comes from wells in the same gravel that carries the winter groundwater into crawl spaces.

The Benedictine campus of Saint Martin's University has sat on its hill above College Street since 1895, and the neighborhoods that spread out below it after the 1960s are the ones providers work most in a wet winter.

Call (360) 364-8868 and say which room or which part of the house is wet. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Lacey.