Water Damage Restoration in Rainier, WA

Rainier is a town of about two thousand people on Highway 507 between Yelm and Tenino, in the timber and farm country where the Deschutes River comes down out of the Bald Hills. The railroad built it in the 1890s, the old rail line is now the Yelm-Tenino Trail through the middle of town, and the houses along Centre Street and Binghampton Street are a mix of 1900s and 1920s wood-frame houses and 1970s ranch houses on big lots. Outside the town limits the housing is acreage: manufactured homes and stick-built ranches on two to five acres, on private wells and septic, with a barn and a long gravel driveway.

The Deschutes is Rainier's river. The gauge just outside town is the one Tumwater and Olympia watch, because the water that passes here reaches Capitol Lake half a day later. In February 1996, December 2007, and January 2009 the river left its banks across the bottomland along Military Road and Rainier Road, and McIntosh Lake south of town spread into the fields around it. Away from the river, the wet-season problem is a saturated pasture draining into a crawl space through vents at grade, and a well pump and pressure tank in an unheated shed that freezes in a cold week.

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

Rainier water damage on acreage and along the river

Brown water from the Deschutes in a house on the bottomland is a storm and river flood cleanup, and everything porous it touched comes out. A crawl space under a ranch house that fills when the pasture saturates in December is a crawl space water extraction. A line from the well house that froze and split in the arctic week after Christmas 2021 is a burst pipe cleanup, and the pump shed and the crawl space both get metered.

The town desk and the county line

Rebuild permits inside the town go through the City of Rainier, and houses outside the limits go through the county's permit desk in Olympia. Neither one is needed for the pumping and drying. On an acreage lot, tell the provider about the gate, the driveway, and where the well and the septic are, so the discharge hose does not end up on the drain field.

Call (360) 364-8868 and say whether the water came from the river, the ground, or a pipe. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Rainier.