Water Damage Restoration in Camas, WA
Camas began in 1883 when the LaCamas Colony Company picked the mouth of the Washougal River for a paper mill, and the mill ran the town for the next 140 years. The streets between the waterfront and Prune Hill filled with bungalows from the 1900s through the 1940s, most on short crawl spaces with fir floors. Incorporation came in 1906, a downtown fire in 1923 rebuilt the main blocks in brick, and from the 1990s on the growth went up the hill and around Lacamas Lake, where the population climbed by a third between 2010 and 2020 to about 26,000.
Rain here runs from November to March with barely a break, and the ground stays saturated the whole time. Water in a Camas house is usually a crawl space or a hillside story before it is a plumbing story.
This site connects Camas homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider walks the house, takes readings, and writes the scope from those.
Camas water damage, from the mill streets to the hill
A bungalow off Fourth Avenue with water under the fir floor is a crawl space water extraction job, and the fix includes the footing drain that silted up decades ago. A daylight basement on Prune Hill with a wet uphill wall in February needs water extraction and then drying of the framing behind the drywall. When the Gorge east wind drops the town into the teens, as it did in January 2024, a split line in a garage ceiling is burst pipe water damage work once the plumber has the water off.
Who signs the rebuild permit in Camas, and what the schools know about the weather
The city's own Building Division handles permits for any rebuild inside the city limits that touches framing, plumbing, or wiring, and the About page explains how the visit goes before that point. The Camas School District closed its schools for several days in the January 2024 ice storm, which is a fair measure of how hard that cold snap hit the town's pipes.
Call (360) 226-7395 and describe what the water did. We route you to an independent local water damage provider working in Camas.
Services Available in Camas
Water Extraction
Standing water pulled off a kitchen floor, a daylight basement, or a garage slab, then metered to see which walls it climbed.
Structural Drying
Air movers and dehumidifiers set by the readings, running until fir subfloor, studs, and drywall reach their dry target in a wet Camas winter.
Crawl Space Water Extraction
Water pumped out from under a bungalow or a hillside home, wet insulation pulled, joists and subfloor metered and dried.
Burst Pipe Water Damage
The rooms a split supply line soaked during an east-wind cold snap, pumped out and dried once the plumber has the water off.
Roof Leak Water Damage
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried after a Gorge windstorm or a clogged valley let months of rain inside.
Leak Detection
Finding the hidden supply line, drain, or slab leak behind a high water bill or a soft floor before anyone opens a wall.
Flood Cleanup
Mud, creek water, and hillside runoff removed from a house after Lacamas Creek, the Washougal, or a saturated slope let go.
Hardwood Floor Drying
Cupped fir and oak floors in downtown bungalows and newer hillside homes metered and dried before anyone decides to tear them out.