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65+ Puget Sound communities. One hour, most of the time.

We dispatch from Alderwood Manor, Washington and cover Snohomish, King and Island County. Emergency water damage response is available 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

  • On site in an hour or less
  • IICRC certified crews
  • Based in Alderwood Manor, Washington
  • We bill your insurance direct
Technician setting up drying equipment on a Puget Sound job

20+

Years restoring Puget Sound homes

< 60 min

Typical arrival, day or night

65+

Communities covered

24/7

Owner-answered phone line

Response times by area

Where our trucks are, and how fast we reach you.

We are based in Alderwood Manor, Washington, which is why South Snohomish County gets us fastest — but we run the whole Puget Sound footprint, day and night, storm or not.

South Snohomish County

Home base — typically 20 to 40 minutes

  • Alderwood Manor
  • Lynnwood
  • Edmonds
  • Mountlake Terrace
  • Brier
  • Mill Creek
  • Everett
  • Mukilteo

North Seattle & Shoreline

Typically 25 to 45 minutes

  • Shoreline
  • Seattle
  • Lake Forest Park
  • Kenmore
  • Bothell
  • Woodinville

Eastside

Typically 35 to 55 minutes

  • Kirkland
  • Redmond
  • Bellevue
  • Sammamish
  • Issaquah
  • Renton

North Sound & Island

Storm season coverage

  • Marysville
  • Arlington
  • Stanwood
  • Camano Island
  • Snohomish
  • Monroe
  • Lake Stevens

South King County

Typically 45 to 70 minutes

  • Burien
  • SeaTac
  • Tukwila
  • Kent
  • Federal Way
  • Auburn
  • Des Moines
  • Maple Valley

Not sure if you are in range?

Call and ask. If we cannot get to you fast enough to matter, Ray will tell you who can — that is still a better phone call than waiting.

Service area

Based in Alderwood Manor. Rolling across the whole Puget Sound.

From Stanwood to Federal Way, Camano Island to North Bend. If you are inside this footprint, we are typically at your door in under an hour.

Alderwood ManorLynnwoodEdmondsMountlake TerraceBrierBothellKenmoreMill CreekMeadowdaleWoodwayShorelineLake Forest ParkEverettMukilteoMarysvilleSnohomishMonroeLake StevensGranite FallsSultanGold BarArlingtonStanwoodCamano IslandSmokey PointLake GoodwinTulalipSeattleBallardFremontGreen LakeQueen AnneMagnoliaCapitol HillMontlakeMadison ParkUniversity DistrictLake CityWest SeattleBellevueMercer IslandMedinaKirklandJuanitaRedmondWoodinvilleSammamishIssaquahRentonKennydaleNewcastleNewport HillsSnoqualmieNorth BendFall CityCarnationDuvallKentDes MoinesBurienNormandy ParkSeaTacTukwilaFederal WayAuburnMaple Valley

Field notes

A loss, hour by hour, in Ray's own words.

Four photographs from real Alderwood Manor, Washington area jobs, and what was happening in the minutes around each one.

Technician extracting water from a wet hardwood floor with a commercial machine
Hour one

The wand does not stop until it comes back dry.

Most of the water you can save a floor from is gone in the first two hours. This is why Ray loads the extractor before he even knows what he is walking into — every minute of pumping is a board you do not replace.

Technician inspecting exposed wall framing with a flashlight and moisture meter
Hour three

Every stud bay gets a light and a meter on it.

Water travels sideways through framing and sill plates. If a bay reads wet and gets closed anyway, you are paying for the same repair twice next spring. So we check them one at a time and write the numbers down.

Technician securing a microbial hazard containment barrier with blue tape
Contaminated losses

Plastic, tape, negative air, and a sign on the zipper.

Sewage and mold work is isolated before anything else happens. Tools get decontaminated on the way out. Your kitchen, your kids' rooms and your HVAC never meet what is behind that barrier.

Technician pushing a commercial dehumidifier through a doorway with the branded van outside
Every job

That is our van in your driveway — not a franchise sub.

Family owned for 20+ years. When you call the number on this page, the man who shows up is the man who answered. He unloads his own dehumidifiers and he is there when the readings hit dry standard.

Talk to Ray now

Every call goes to the owner's cell

What is on the truck

The equipment that decides whether your floors get saved.

Trucks stay loaded so nothing has to be picked up on the way to you. This is what rolls up to a Alderwood Manor, Washington driveway at 3am.

Technician carrying an air mover beside the branded vanTechnician moving a commercial dehumidifier through a doorway

Truck-mount extraction

Pulls standing water out at volume so drying can actually start on day one.

LGR dehumidifiers

Low grain refrigerant units pull moisture out of the air, not just move it around your framing.

Air movers

Placed to a plan and angle, so evaporation happens where the readings say the water is.

Infrared cameras

See temperature differences behind walls so we open only what has to be opened.

Penetrating moisture meters

Numbers instead of guesses — logged daily and sent to your adjuster.

Hardwood floor drying mats

Pull water up from underneath boards so floors can often be saved instead of replaced.

Negative air and containment

Keeps contamination and dust inside the work area and out of the rest of your home.

Air scrubbers with HEPA

Cleans the air your family is breathing while the work is happening.

Before & after

Two houses Ray was called into on their worst day.

Same homes, a week or two apart. No staging, no stock photography — just what a documented drying plan and a crew that shows up in the first hour actually produces.

Before and after comparison of a water damaged living room restored by Absolute Water Damage

7 days

water out to finished room

Lynnwood · supply line failure

Two inches of water on the floor Friday night. Family back in the room the next week.

A second-floor supply line let go while the homeowners were at dinner. Water came down through the ceiling and across the entire living room. When Ray walked in, the carpet was floating and the baseboards were already wicking.

  • Truck-mount extraction started within 40 minutes of the call
  • Ceiling opened only where readings demanded it — the rest dried in place
  • Six air movers and two LGR dehumidifiers on a documented drying plan
  • Daily moisture logs sent straight to the adjuster; claim approved without a fight
Before and after comparison of a mold damaged basement remediated by Absolute Water Damage

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square feet unnecessarily gutted

Everett · long-term basement seepage

The basement nobody wanted to go into — cleared, sealed and handed back.

This one had been wet for months before anyone called. Microbial growth had spread across the framing and the smell hit you at the top of the stairs. Two other companies quoted a full gut.

  • Containment and negative air before a single piece of material moved
  • Antimicrobial treatment on every square inch of salvageable framing
  • Non-salvageable porous material bagged and disposed of to IICRC standard
  • Air quality and odor verified before the containment came down
Partially collapsed living room ceiling with insulation and drywall piled on the sofa and ottomanBefore
Restored living room with new ceiling, paint and hardwood floorAfter

Case study · Bothell

A Bothell home, 11 days of water, one crew from first call to final walkthrough.

A catastrophic freeze caused extensive water damage throughout a Bothell home while the owner was out of the country. The heat had been turned down, allowing the home's piping to freeze and rupture. Water ran for 11 days before a neighbor noticed it flowing out of the roof soffits.

11 days
Water ran before a neighbor noticed
Same evening
On site the night of the call (Jan 19)
93%
Relative humidity in the living room

On camera

Watch what an hour-one response actually looks like.

Most restoration companies show you a finished room. We would rather show you the middle of the job, because that is where losses are saved or lost. Tap for sound.

Real job · 0:05

What was behind the drywall

Opened one wall, found this. Mold starts in days — this is why we check every cavity before anything gets closed up.

Real job · 0:18

Extraction, up close

Black water pulled straight off the subfloor at the toilet flange — the wand doesn't stop until the meter reads dry.

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  • Black water, burst pipes, mold — handled the same night, not next week
  • Every reading and photo goes into the file for your insurance adjuster
  • Ray answers his own phone and is usually on site inside the hour
Call (206) 856-3173

Turn the sound on — it's the real job site.

Before we get there

Five things to do in the next five minutes.

Do what you safely can, and leave the rest to us. Nothing here is worth getting hurt over — Ray is already on the way.

Technician extracting water from hardwood flooring
  1. 01

    Stop the water if you can do it safely

    Main shutoff, appliance valve, or the toilet stop behind the base. If you cannot find it, call and we will talk you to it.

  2. 02

    Kill power to wet rooms

    Only from a dry spot at the panel. Never stand in water to reach a switch or breaker.

  3. 03

    Lift what you can

    Get furniture legs, rugs, electronics and boxes up off wet flooring. Photograph everything before you move it.

  4. 04

    Do not start tearing out

    Cutting drywall or pulling carpet before it is documented can cost you on the claim. Let us photograph and measure first.

  5. 05

    Call Ray

    (206) 856-3173. Any hour. He will tell you what is urgent and what can wait, even before anyone is dispatched.

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Open 24 hours — every day of the year

IICRC certified crews

On the job

Real crews, real equipment, real Puget Sound homes.

Every photo below is our own team on an actual loss — not stock footage of somebody else's trucks.

Ray extracting standing water from hardwood floors in a Puget Sound living room
Extraction
Truck-mount extraction on wet hardwood before the boards cup
Ray unloading a commercial air mover from the Absolute Water Damage van
Arrival
The van shows up loaded — air movers, dehus, hose and hand tools
Moisture meter reading of 17.3 taken under a water stained ceiling
Moisture reading
17.3 on the meter. That ceiling is not dry, whatever it looks like
Ray positioning an LGR 7000XLi dehumidifier in a gutted room with wet hardwood
Dry-out
LGR dehumidifiers sized to the room, not guessed at
Technician kneeling with a flashlight and moisture meter checking an open wall cavity
Inspection
Every stud bay checked before anything gets closed back up
Technician scanning a mold stained wall and ceiling with a meter
Mold
Mold can start in five days. We find it while it is still small
Ray carrying an air mover from the Absolute Water Damage van into a garage
First minutes
Equipment off the van and through your door in the first few minutes
Ray setting a DriZair 1200 dehumidifier on a wet hardwood floor with air movers running
Drying plan
DriZair 1200 set on wet hardwood, air movers already pushing
Ray documenting a stained ceiling on a tablet next to containment sheeting
Documentation
Ceiling stains photographed and logged on the tablet as we go
Ray pulling wet baseboard trim away from a water damaged wall
Controlled demo
Baseboard comes off so the wall cavity can actually dry
Ray taking a 15.6 moisture reading on a hallway wall with a dehumidifier behind him
Daily readings
15.6 in the hallway — equipment stays until that number drops
Ray extracting standing water from a flooded basement floor with a carpet wand
Basement flood
Flooded basement in Alderwood Manor — wand down, VELO PRO dehu already staged
Ray inspecting a rotted sink cabinet base with a flashlight and moisture meter
Hidden leak
Slow supply-line leak under the sink. Found it before the subfloor was gone
Ray rolling a VELO PRO dehumidifier out of the Absolute Water Damage van
Rapid response
The van is the warehouse — dehus come off it the minute Ray parks
Ray cutting out water damaged ceiling drywall over a protected bedroom
Ceiling repair
Ceiling opened above a bedroom, furniture covered before the first cut
Ray logging drying readings on a tablet beside an LGR 7000 dehumidifier
Insurance file
Flood-cut wall, LGR 7000 running, every reading logged for your adjuster
Before and after of a water damaged living room restored by Absolute Water Damage
Before / after
Living room: standing water to move-in ready
Before and after of a mold damaged basement remediated by Absolute Water Damage
Before / after
Basement: microbial growth removed and rebuilt clean

Neighbors who called Ray

The reviews all say the same thing: he showed up.

5.0

Rated by Puget Sound homeowners

“Had a tree fall on my roof, nightmare situation but Ray helped out more than Allstate ever did!”
Daniel Grabstein

Daniel Grabstein

Seattle, WA · Google

“Our water heater let go at 11pm and Ray answered his own phone on the second ring. Crew was in the driveway inside the hour with extractors. He walked me through the insurance claim line by line and we were dry in five days.”
Megan Ellsworth

Megan Ellsworth

Lynnwood, WA · Google

“Supply line burst under the kitchen sink while we were out of town. Ray found water two rooms away with an infrared camera that nobody else would have caught. Saved us from a mold problem, no question.”
Marcus Whitfield

Marcus Whitfield

Bothell, WA · Google

“What I appreciated most was how little they tore out. Other companies wanted to gut the whole basement. Ray dried it in place, documented every reading, and the insurance adjuster accepted it without a fight.”
Grace Tanaka

Grace Tanaka

Mill Creek, WA · Google

“Sewage backup in the downstairs bath — awful. They showed up in full gear, sealed it off, sanitized everything and the smell was completely gone. Ray checked in on us for a week after. Genuinely kind people.”
Alicia Moreno

Alicia Moreno

Edmonds, WA · Google

“Christmas morning, dishwasher line split, water under the whole kitchen floor. Ray picked up on a holiday and was here in 45 minutes. Who does that? He never once talked about money until the claim was already approved.”
Brett Callahan

Brett Callahan

Everett, WA · Google

“Our crawl space had standing water for who knows how long. Ray crawled under there himself with a light, showed me photos of every joist, and explained what was salvageable. Zero pressure, zero upselling.”
Linda Nakamura

Linda Nakamura

Shoreline, WA · Google

“Upstairs toilet overflowed into the ceiling below. They had containment up in twenty minutes and the drying equipment running before I finished making coffee. Daily readings emailed to me and to the adjuster.”
Diego Ramirez

Diego Ramirez

Kirkland, WA · Google

“I am 71 and I was panicking. Ray talked me down on the phone, told me exactly which valve to shut off, and stayed on the line until he pulled into the driveway. He treated my house like it was his mother's.”
Carol Whitby

Carol Whitby

Mountlake Terrace, WA · Google

“Small kitchen fire, smoke through the entire house. The odor was gone completely — not covered up, gone. They cleaned the ducts, sealed what needed sealing, and coordinated the rebuild with a contractor they trusted.”
Renée Adjei

Renée Adjei

Bellevue, WA · Google

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