Split-Levels and Ramblers: Where Water Collects
How the plateau's most common houses take on water, level by level.
RENTON NEIGHBORHOOD · BENSON HILL
Water across a split-level's lower floor, or a washer hose that burst? Get it removed and dried before it spreads under the walls.
Benson Hill voted to join Renton on November 6, 2007, and the annexation took effect March 1, 2008. It brought in about 4.2 square miles and 16,272 residents, and today the area is roughly a quarter of the city's population. Much of it is subdivision housing, and those houses are now the age when original water heaters, washer hoses and supply lines give out. Add big evergreens that drop branches on roofs in a windstorm, and you have most of the water damage calls from Benson Hill.

Split-levels are everywhere here. The lowest level is usually a family room or bedroom with carpet, often with the laundry and water heater close by. When one of those fails, water spreads across the whole lower floor and under the walls. Two-story homes add laundry rooms and bathrooms over living space, so the ceiling is often where it shows first.
Jobs here usually come down to emergency water removal, water damage cleanup, flood cleanup, mitigation & drying or restoration & repair. One number covers every one of them.
Get a Renton restoration company on the line: (425) 584-1660.
Call (425) 584-1660If the water heater and the washer are both near the lower-level family room, they're worth checking before the next failure. Rust at the tank base or a bulging hose is a warning.
How the plateau's most common houses take on water, level by level.
The line items, and what makes each one bigger or smaller.