Water Damage Restoration in Hawks Prairie, WA

Hawks Prairie is the north end of Lacey, the prairie between Interstate 5 and the Nisqually delta that was farms and the county airport's flight path until the 1990s. Then the subdivisions arrived, and no corner of Thurston County has added houses as quickly since. The housing is almost all 1995 and newer: two-story tract houses on small lots off Marvin Road and Hawks Prairie Road, planned communities with homeowners associations around Meridian Campus and the golf course, townhouses and apartments near the freeway, and the warehouses along Hogum Bay Road that employ a good share of the residents. Out toward Tolmie and the Nisqually the lots get larger and older, with 1970s ramblers on wells.

The prairie is glacial outwash gravel and drains fast, so this is not crawl space country. Most Hawks Prairie houses sit on slabs or on shallow crawl spaces that stay dry. Water here comes from inside the house and from the roof. A water heater in the garage lets go against a bedroom wall; a washing machine hose fails on the second floor and the kitchen ceiling comes down; a builder-grade roof from 2002 loses shingles in a southwest windstorm. The December 2021 and December 2022 arctic spells froze hose bibs and garage lines in houses whose owners had never seen a pipe freeze, and the November 2021 atmospheric river overwhelmed gutters and sent water behind the siding on two-story walls.

This site puts Hawks Prairie homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider who meters before anyone cuts.

Hawks Prairie water damage in a house built since 1995

A garage tank that let go against a bedroom is a water heater leak cleanup, and the carpet on the other side of the wall is part of it. A second-floor leak that came through the kitchen ceiling starts with water extraction and a ceiling opened at the low spot. A frozen hose bib that split inside a garage wall in the December cold is a burst pipe cleanup.

Schools, the beach, and the HOA

The neighborhood's families are in North Thurston Public Schools, the largest district in the county, which built several of its newest schools on the prairie to keep up with the houses. On the far side of the prairie, Tolmie State Park puts a saltwater beach and a marsh at the end of the road, and the ground there shows what the prairie looked like before it drained. Rebuild permits go through Lacey's desk, and in a planned community the HOA may want to see the exterior work too; the drying itself needs neither.

Call (360) 364-8868 and tell us which floor took the water and what let it go. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Hawks Prairie.