Five Corners is the unincorporated ground north of Vancouver's city line and south of Brush Prairie, named for the junction where five roads meet near Padden Parkway and Andresen. About 21,000 people live here, up from under 7,000 in 1990, so the housing is mostly 1990s and 2000s subdivisions on slab and crawl space, with 1960s and 1970s ranches on bigger lots along the older roads and apartment complexes near the parkway. It is suburban in every way except that the permits and the roads belong to Clark County rather than the city.
Flat ground, clay soil, and a lot of roof and pavement draining into it. The storm ponds fill first, then the low yards, then the crawl spaces.
This site connects Five Corners homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider walks the house and writes the scope from the readings.
A crawl space that filled from the ground after a month of rain is a crawl space water extraction job, and the crew will look for the downspout draining at the foundation. A water heater or a washer hose that flooded a slab-on-grade family room is water extraction, then drying of every wall it reached. A garage supply line that split in the January 2024 cold snap is burst pipe water damage cleanup once the plumber has it fixed.
Five Corners is outside the Vancouver city limits, so rebuild permits go through Clark County Community Development, while water service comes from either the city or Clark Public Utilities depending on the street. Tell the crew which utility is on the bill, because it tells them where the shutoff is and who to call about a leak on the street side of the meter.
Call (360) 226-7395 and describe the water. We route you to an independent local water damage provider working in Five Corners.
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.