Water Damage Restoration in Downtown Camas, WA

Downtown Camas is the grid the mill built. The main blocks along Fourth Avenue went up in brick after the 1923 fire, and the residential streets around them, from the mill fence up to the base of Prune Hill, hold the bungalows and small foursquares that mill families put up between the 1900s and the 1940s. They sit on short crawl spaces with vertical-grain fir floors, and many still carry galvanized supply lines and clay footing drains that stopped working generations ago.

The neighborhood is low, close to the Washougal River mouth and the Columbia, and the water table in a wet January rises to the dirt under the houses. A damp smell in February is the usual first sign.

This site connects downtown Camas homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. In these houses the provider pulls the crawl space hatch before writing anything down.

Downtown Camas water damage under a fir floor

Water between the piers under a 1920s bungalow is a crawl space water extraction job, and the crew will say whether it came from a pipe or up through the ground. A fir floor that cupped over that wet crawl space is hardwood floor drying work, and those old floors dry well from below if air can move under them. A pinhole in a galvanized line that has been dripping under the floor for months, showing up only as a rising water bill, is a leak detection call.

The association that keeps the old blocks standing

The Downtown Camas Association looks after the 1920s brick blocks and the tree-lined streets around them, and the same age that gives the neighborhood its look is what makes the plumbing and the drains under it a question. Any rebuild that touches framing or pipes goes through the city's permit desk.

Call (360) 226-7395 and tell us what you found under the floor. We route you to an independent local water damage provider working in downtown Camas.