Water Damage Restoration in Tenino, WA

Tenino was a sandstone town. The quarries opened in 1888 and cut the stone for the old State Capitol, the Thurston County Courthouse, and buildings up and down the coast, and the town of about two thousand people still shows it: a sandstone downtown on Sussex Avenue, a 1914 railroad depot that is now the museum, and a quarry that has been the public swimming pool since 1926. The houses behind the main street are 1900s and 1920s wood frame on crawl spaces, with a ring of 1970s and 1990s ranch houses on the hills and out along Old Highway 99.

Water in Tenino comes from Scatter Creek and the ground. The town sits in a low valley between the Bald Hills and the prairie, the creek runs through it, and the December 2007 and January 2009 storms put water across the low fields on both sides of town. The pre-war houses have the same trouble as Olympia's: dirt crawl spaces a foot or two above a winter water table, and galvanized lines that pinhole in the cold.

This site connects Tenino homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider looks under the house before deciding anything.

Tenino water damage in a quarry town

A crawl space under a 1910 house near the creek that holds water every January is a crawl space water extraction, and the soaked insulation between the joists comes out with the water. A galvanized line that split behind a bathtub in the December 2022 cold is a burst pipe cleanup. Water pooled on a floor from a failed hose or a split line begins with water extraction.

City Hall, the creek, and the wolves

Rebuild permits after a water loss inside the city go through the City of Tenino, and the city also answers for the storm drains that carry Scatter Creek's overflow off the streets. The pumping and drying need no permit.

Just south of town on the prairie, Wolf Haven International has kept a sanctuary for displaced wolves since 1982 on the same Mima prairie soil that drains fast and keeps the ranch houses out that way drier than the ones in the valley.

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 Tenino.