Skamania is the unincorporated community on SR-14 between Prindle and North Bonneville, about 12 miles up the Gorge from Camas, at around 100 feet on the Columbia's north bank with Beacon Rock standing just east of it. The first Oregon Trail settlers came through in 1843, and the community grew up as a river landing and a stop on the railroad. The houses are scattered along the highway and up the side roads toward Hamilton Mountain, 1930s to 1970s cabins and farmhouses on crawl spaces and 1990s to 2010s homes on acreage, on wells and septic, in one of the rainiest stretches of the county.
The Gorge wind and the Gorge rain both hit here first. Water gets driven under siding on the east side of a house, and a cold outbreak splits pipes that were never meant for it.
This site connects Skamania homeowners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. The provider walks the house and the slope before writing anything.
A ceiling stained on the east end after a windstorm is roof leak water damage work once the roofer has been up. A frozen line in a pump house or an exterior wall on the wind side is burst pipe water damage cleanup, and the water shows up at the thaw. A 1950s cabin with water between the piers after weeks of rain is crawl space water extraction.
Beacon Rock State Park covers more than 4,000 acres around the monolith Lewis and Clark named, and the same cliffs that make the view are what funnel the wind onto the houses below. This is Skamania County, so rebuild permits go to the county desk in Stevenson, not Clark County, and the provider who takes your call works both counties.
Call (360) 226-7395 and tell us what the storm did. We route you to an independent local water damage provider working in Skamania.
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.