Water Damage Restoration in Steamboat Island, WA

Steamboat Island is the name the whole peninsula goes by, the long finger of land northwest of Olympia between Eld Inlet and Totten Inlet with the small island itself at its tip. Steamboat Island Road runs the length of it from Highway 101, and the housing along it and the side roads to Gravelly Beach, Carlyon Beach, and Hunter Point is what the South Sound peninsulas grew from the 1960s on: beach cabins from the 1930s and 1940s that were closed in and lived in year round, 1970s and 1980s ramblers and daylight ramblers on the bluffs, and larger 1990s and 2000s waterfront houses down long private drives. Nearly everything is on a private well or a small community system and on septic.

The peninsula gets Olympia's fifty inches of rain and then some, and the ground is glacial till over clay on the bluffs, which drains slowly and moves. Winter water runs off the pasture and the fir forest, saturates the yard, and enters a crawl space through the vents; a daylight basement dug into the bluff takes water at the uphill wall every wet season. The waterfront cabins sit on posts a foot above ground that stays wet from November to April, and the December 2021 and December 2022 arctic spells froze well lines and pressure tanks in unheated pump houses up and down the road.

This site puts Steamboat Island homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider who drives out from Olympia.

Steamboat Island water damage on a wet bluff

A crawl space under a converted beach cabin that fills every January is a crawl space water extraction, and the crew runs the discharge downhill toward the beach, not back under the house. A daylight basement wall that weeps every wet season and finally let go in a November storm gets water extraction first and a long run of structural drying after. A well line that froze and split in a pump house is a burst pipe cleanup.

Griffin, the school on the peninsula

Everything on the peninsula is unincorporated, so rebuild permits go through the county desk in Olympia; the pumping and drying need none. The peninsula's one public institution is the Griffin School District, a single K-8 school on Steamboat Island Road that has served the peninsula's families since the early 1900s and sends its graduates into Olympia for high school. When a house is out of service for a week of drying, the school gym is where the peninsula gathers.

Call (360) 364-8868 and describe where the water is and how deep. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Steamboat Island.