Water Damage Restoration in Broadway, RI
Broadway runs northeast from Washington Square and City Hall out toward Middletown, and the neighborhood around it is Newport's working downtown. The Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House on the corner of Stone Street dates to about 1697, and the blocks behind Broadway hold three-deckers and two-families from the 1880s through the 1920s on stone and brick foundations, with storefronts below apartments along the avenue itself. Newport Hospital sits a block off Broadway on Powel Avenue.
Stacked housing means stacked plumbing. Three kitchens and three baths share one set of risers and drains, and a failure on the top floor reaches the ground floor within minutes. The cellars are stone and take groundwater on the low blocks toward the harbor, and the flat roofs and shallow-pitch roofs common on the three-deckers pond in a nor'easter and leak at the parapets.
This site puts Broadway owners and landlords through by phone to an independent local water damage provider who works three-deckers all year.
Broadway water damage in a three-decker with three kitchens
A failed supply line or a corroded drain in an upper unit is burst pipe water damage that almost always includes the ceiling of the unit below. A stained or sagging kitchen ceiling is a ceiling water damage repair. A ponded flat roof that let go at the parapet is roof leak and ice dam water damage.
The hospital around the corner and the landlord's permit
Newport Hospital at 20 Powel Avenue has served the island since the 1870s, and its neighborhood is the densest housing in the city. Rebuild work in a multi-family after a water loss, including new plumbing or wiring, goes through the city's building desk on the owner's permit, and tenants have to be told before work in their unit begins.
Call (401) 560-5802 and say which unit the water started in and how many floors it reached. An independent local water damage provider serving Broadway takes it from there.
Services Available in Broadway
Water Extraction
Standing water pulled off wide pine boards, tile, brick, and dirt cellar floors on any level of an old Newport house, then the first moisture readings.
Structural Drying
Air movers and dehumidifiers run by daily readings until plaster, lath, old timber, and subfloor come back to dry numbers in salt air.
Storm Surge and Coastal Flood Cleanup
Harbor or bay water that came in during a nor'easter or hurricane pumped out, contaminated material removed, and the ground floor dried.
Stone Cellar Flooding Cleanup
Water pumped out of a fieldstone or rubble cellar, the source traced to a joint, a drain, or the tide, and the stone and framing above it dried.
Frozen Pipe Cleanup
Cleanup after a supply line froze in an uninsulated wall, a crawl space, or a shut-up summer house and split, then drying of what the thaw soaked.
Burst Pipe Water Damage
A failed supply line, corroded fitting, or split radiator line shut off, the water pulled out, and the floors and plaster below it dried.
Roof Leak and Ice Dam Water Damage
Wet attic insulation, plaster ceilings, and walls dried after a slate slipped, an ice dam backed up at the eave, or a nor'easter drove rain under the flashing.
Ceiling Water Damage Repair
A stained, sagging, or dropped plaster ceiling opened, the cavity above it dried, and the source found before anyone patches it.