Stevenson is the Skamania County seat, a town of about 1,500 people on the Columbia 20 miles east of Camas on SR-14. George Stevenson bought the townsite in 1893, the county records arrived the same year after a dispute over rent in the old seat at Cascades, and the town incorporated in 1907. The houses climb from the old grid near the waterfront, 1900s to 1940s on crawl spaces, up the slope of Rock Creek to the 1970s through 2010s homes on the benches above.
This stretch of the Gorge is known for its wind. Winter east winds drive rain sideways under shingles and siding, and the same wind is what drops the temperature into the teens and splits pipes.
This site connects Stevenson homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider walks the house and writes the scope from the readings.
A ceiling stained on the east side of the house after a Gorge windstorm is roof leak water damage work once the roofer has stopped it. A line that froze in an exterior wall on the wind side is burst pipe water damage cleanup, and the water usually shows up at the thaw. A 1920s house on the old grid with water under the floor is a crawl space water extraction job.
Rebuild permits inside the city go through the City of Stevenson, and this is Skamania County, so anything outside the limits goes to the county desk here in town rather than to Clark County. The Columbia Gorge Museum on Rock Creek Drive holds the record of the floods, the steamboats, and the wind that have shaped every house on this bank.
Call (360) 226-7395 and tell us what you found. We route you to an independent local water damage provider working in Stevenson.
Standing water pulled off a kitchen floor, a daylight basement, or a garage slab, then metered to see which walls it climbed.
Air movers and dehumidifiers set by the readings, running until fir subfloor, studs, and drywall reach their dry target in a wet Camas winter.
Water pumped out from under a bungalow or a hillside home, wet insulation pulled, joists and subfloor metered and dried.
The rooms a split supply line soaked during an east-wind cold snap, pumped out and dried once the plumber has the water off.
Wet attic insulation, ceilings, and walls dried after a Gorge windstorm or a clogged valley let months of rain inside.
Finding the hidden supply line, drain, or slab leak behind a high water bill or a soft floor before anyone opens a wall.
Mud, creek water, and hillside runoff removed from a house after Lacamas Creek, the Washougal, or a saturated slope let go.
Cupped fir and oak floors in downtown bungalows and newer hillside homes metered and dried before anyone decides to tear them out.