Same Trade the Whole Way Up
Geoff Roach didn't set out to run his own company. He started as a fire sprinkler apprentice in the union, learning pipe, code, and layout from people who'd been doing it for decades. From there he made journeyman, then foreman, running commercial crews on jobs that ranged from single-family homes to warehouses pushing 100,000 square feet.
Fourteen years into the trade, he started Rain City Fire Protection to do the work differently: a direct relationship with the person doing the job, instead of a company juggling five trades and a rotating bench of technicians. Today Rain City is licensed, bonded, insured to $1,000,000, and NICET Level 3 Certified, with 95+ residential fire sprinkler systems permitted across the Puget Sound since 2023.
Rain City is now run by two partners. Geoff's partner, Steve Woods, brings 23 years of commercial fire protection experience, and Rain City now designs and installs NFPA 13 systems for commercial buildings alongside the residential work Geoff built the company on.
The motto hasn't changed since day one: do it right or do it twice.
