Water Damage Restoration in Common Fence Point, RI

Common Fence Point is the neighborhood on the northern tip of Aquidneck Island in Portsmouth, on a low neck of land between the Sakonnet River and Mount Hope Bay, north of Island Park and east of the Mount Hope Bridge. It was platted for summer cottages in the 1920s, and the small houses on small lots that resulted have mostly become year-round homes, many of them added onto, raised, or rebuilt since.

Water surrounds it on three sides and the ground barely rises above it. Bay water came through in 1938 and again with Hurricane Carol in 1954, when a cottage from the point drifted out into the bay. A nor'easter on a spring tide still puts water on the low streets, and the wind off the bay in January finds pipes in cottages that were never meant to be heated.

This site puts Common Fence Point homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider.

Common Fence Point water damage on a neck of land in the bay

Bay or river water in the house is a storm surge and coastal flood cleanup. A pipe that froze in a converted cottage with a crawl space is a frozen pipe cleanup. Once the water is out, structural drying runs until the framing under a cottage floor reads dry, which takes longer in air this damp.

What to tell the crew about a converted cottage

Say whether the house sits on piers, a crawl space, or a full foundation, because water under a cottage floor behaves differently from water in a cellar. Portsmouth's building office handles the permits, and the flood zone here can affect what a rebuild is allowed to do.

Call (401) 560-5802 and say whether the water is salt and how deep it got. An independent local water damage provider serving Common Fence Point takes the call.