Water Damage Restoration in Wildwood, WA

Wildwood is the neighborhood south of the Capitol Campus and South Capitol, between Capitol Way and Henderson Boulevard, running down to the Tumwater line. It was Olympia's first automobile suburb: the streets were platted in the 1920s, and the small Tudor cottages, minimal-traditional houses, and early ranch houses along Wildwood Avenue and the streets around Stevens Field went up between 1925 and 1955 for state workers who could now drive to the Capitol. The lots are bigger than South Capitol's, the trees are younger, and the houses are smaller and simpler, with one bath and a detached garage.

Everything here sits on the glacial till of the Capitol bluff, on a dirt crawl space that is often only a foot and a half tall, and many houses still have galvanized supply lines from the 1930s and 1940s. The ground slopes gently west toward Capitol Lake, so the houses on the west side of the neighborhood take groundwater at the downhill wall of the crawl space every wet season. The coldest weeks, like late December 2021 and the week before Christmas 2022, split galvanized lines under bathroom floors up and down these blocks.

This site puts Wildwood homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider who goes under the hatch before deciding anything.

Wildwood water damage in a 1930s cottage

Water on the dirt under a Tudor cottage after a week of rain is a crawl space water extraction. A galvanized line that split under the bathroom is a burst pipe cleanup, and the fir floor in the hall gets metered from above and from the crawl space before anyone decides whether it stays. A cool spot in the floor with no visible leak points to a pinhole under the house and starts with leak detection.

The school on the hill

Most of Wildwood walks to school. The neighborhood is served by the Olympia School District, whose Lincoln Elementary and the fields at Stevens Field have anchored these blocks since the neighborhood was new. Rebuild permits for plumbing, wiring, and structure go through the city's Permit Center; the pumping and drying need none.

Call (360) 364-8868 and describe what you found under the house. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Wildwood.