Water Damage Restoration in Shelton, WA

Shelton is the Mason County seat, twenty miles up Highway 101 from Olympia at the head of Oakland Bay, and it was a timber town for a century. The Simpson Timber Company ran its mills on the waterfront from 1890 until the last sawmill closed in 2015, and the town of about ten thousand grew up the hill behind them: 1900s and 1920s mill houses on the flats near downtown and Railroad Avenue, 1940s and 1950s houses in the Hillcrest and Angleside neighborhoods above them, and 1970s and later ranch houses out along Shelton Springs Road and toward Lake Isabella. Outside town the county is waterfront: Hood Canal, Hammersley Inlet, and dozens of lakes lined with cabins that became year-round houses.

Goldsborough Creek runs through the middle of town to the bay, and since its dam came out in 2001 it rises quickly and runs hard in a storm. The December 2007 rain put the creek and its tributaries across the low blocks, and Mason County gets even more rain than Thurston, with the Olympic foothills wringing out sixty to eighty inches a year on the north end. The mill houses sit on dirt crawl spaces with galvanized plumbing, and the lake and canal cabins sit on posts a foot off ground that never dries between November and April.

This site puts Shelton homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider who works across the county line every week.

Shelton water damage in a mill town

A crawl space under a 1920s house near Goldsborough Creek that fills every winter is a crawl space water extraction. A galvanized line that split in the Hillcrest cold snap of December 2022 is a burst pipe cleanup. A moss-lifted roof on a lake cabin that let a windstorm in is roof leak water damage, and the attic insulation is usually wet well past the stain.

The county seat and its hospital

Rebuild permits inside the city go through the City of Shelton, which also runs the water and storm systems and answers for a drain backing up at the curb. Houses outside the limits go through the county desk a few blocks away. The drying itself needs no permit in either case.

When a house is out of service for a week of drying, the town still turns on Railroad Avenue, and the county's hospital, Mason General Hospital on the hill above the mill flats, is where the county's emergency department has been since the 1960s.

Call (360) 364-8868 and say whether the water is under the house, in a room, or from the roof. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Shelton.