Flood cleanup for houses, shops and warehouses on the Auburn bottomland, from the Green River flats to the Stuck channel and up onto Lea Hill. We pump the water out, take out what cannot be saved and dry the building on logged readings.
Flood cleanup in Auburn, WA means clearing the water out of a building, stripping the materials it ruined, disinfecting what is left and drying what stays on daily readings. Our crews work the same way here as they do on flood cleanup in Kent, WA jobs.
The flat ground along the Green River
King County names Auburn alongside Kent, Renton and Tukwila as the Lower Green-Duwamish cities where houses, shops and industrial buildings carry flood risk. On flat ground the water finds a garage slab, a daylight basement or the crawl space first, and it sits there until something pumps it out.
South Auburn, around Game Farm Park
In 1906 the White River was turned into the Stuck channel near what is now Game Farm Park, which carried that river away from the Kent valley and left Auburn holding two river systems at once. We ask which of them your address sits near before the crew loads pumps.
Under the floor, where nobody looks
A blocked yard drain or a sump pump that quit during a long rain pushes groundwater up under the house before anything shows indoors. We pump the crawl space out, pull the soaked vapor barrier and insulation, and dry the framing from below.
Laundry rooms, kitchens and water heater closets
Plenty of Auburn calls have nothing to do with a river. A split line or a failed water heater runs at full pressure until a valve closes, and that water travels under cabinets and walls. Your plumber repairs the pipe; we handle the water it left and dry the house.
Three parts to the job, in the order we run them.
We drop a submersible pump into the deep water under the house or in a basement, then truck-mounted and portable extractors take the rest out of carpet, pad and flooring. Free water goes first, because no dehumidifier reaches what is still pooled.
River and storm water is Category 3, the contaminated grade under the ANSI/IICRC S500 standard, however clear it runs. The EPA tells owners to bring in a contractor experienced with contaminated-water buildings. We set containment, then clean and disinfect what stays.
We photograph and read every wet room before a single cut, match the number of fans and dehumidifiers to how much wet material is in the building, and log the readings every day the equipment runs. You get that log when we collect the machines.
Three things about this city change how we plan a job, starting with what counts as a flood at your address.
Auburn lies in King County and Pierce County at the same time, which is unusual here and matters on a claim: the county an address falls in decides whose flood maps and rules apply. We take the full street address on the call, never just the town.
The Census Bureau puts Auburn's median year built at 1991, the newest housing stock we work in. Newer framing still soaks through, but suspect asbestos material turns up less often, which keeps a tear-out moving once the survey is done.
Seattle-Tacoma International, the nearest NOAA normals station, averages 39.34 inches of precipitation a year, and King County puts its highest flood risk between October and April. A crawl space that fills in that stretch never dries by itself, so our dehumidifiers stay and get read daily.
We cut only where the readings show wet material, and two rules decide when that cutting can start.
Permits here come from the City of Auburn's Building Services and Permitting division inside Community Development. We check what the work needs at that counter before any structural material leaves the building.
Puget Sound Clean Air Agency rules stop a renovation starting until somebody has checked whether suspect asbestos material sits where the cutting will happen, and the survey summary goes up on site. Owner-occupied houses skip the accredited-inspector step. Demolition never does.
We work out from Kent across south King County and over the line into Pierce County, and where the property sits decides the route.
Next door, miles from Auburn
Federal Way drains off a bluff, so the flood crews in Federal Way spend their time on hillside seepage and blocked drainage.
Puyallup is a different county with a different river, and flood cleanup in Puyallup, WA follows Pierce County's flood regime.
Renton's flood water comes off the Cedar River, and Renton flood cleanup calls cluster along that corridor and the lake shore.
The Puyallup River empties into Commencement Bay, and water removal in Tacoma covers the flat industrial ground behind the waterfront.
Four things you can do safely while the crew is on the way.
The line is answered around the clock, nights and weekends included. Tell us the address and which rooms took water, and the scope and cost reach you in writing before a single board comes out.
Call (253) 368-0431Five questions Auburn callers ask, plus our note on flood risk on East Hill up the valley in Kent.
Yes. Both county sides are on our normal run. We bring the pumps, fans and meters with us, so nothing needs dropping off anywhere.
Often, and the City of Auburn's Building Services and Permitting division is who decides. Puget Sound Clean Air Agency rules also call for a check on suspect asbestos material where the cutting will happen before a renovation begins.
Yes. Outside water is Category 3 under the ANSI/IICRC S500 standard however clean it looks, and the EPA tells owners to bring in a contractor experienced with contaminated-water buildings.
It comes out. Soaked batts and the plastic sheet below them hold water against the joists, and the EPA warns that porous materials are often unsalvageable once mold starts. Material the readings show is drying stays put.
Call us while the water is still in the building, then your insurer. We photograph and log room-by-room readings before anything is removed, and that is the record a claim is built on. See calling your insurer first.
Readings and photographs come first, before a single cut, and you keep that record. Tell us the address in Auburn and which rooms are wet.
Call (253) 368-0431