Water Damage Restoration in Historic Hill, RI
Historic Hill climbs east from Thames Street and the harbor up to Bellevue Avenue, with Spring Street running along its middle. Trinity Church has stood on the slope since 1726 and Touro Synagogue since 1763, and the streets between them hold colonial houses from the 1700s next to Victorian two-families from the 1870s and 1880s. Cellars here are cut into ledge and laid up in rubble, and the hill drops steeply enough that a house on Spring Street can have a cellar door at grade in back and a full story of stone in front.
Water on Historic Hill mostly comes from above and behind. Groundwater runs downhill toward the harbor through every cellar in its path, and a heavy rain on frozen ground sends it through the uphill wall. The lower blocks near Thames Street took harbor water in 1938, 1954, and 2012, and slate roofs on the Victorian houses higher up leak at the valleys in every nor'easter.
This site puts Historic Hill homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider reads the uphill wall first.
Historic Hill water damage on a slope that drains through your cellar
Groundwater through the uphill stone wall is a stone cellar flooding cleanup, and the crew wants to know whether it happens every spring or only after this one storm. A slipped slate or a failed valley is roof leak and ice dam water damage. Once the water is out, structural drying runs until old timber and plaster read dry.
The oldest lending library in the country is up the hill
At the top of the slope on Bellevue Avenue, the Redwood Library and Athenaeum has been lending books since 1747, which makes it a fair example of what a well-kept eighteenth-century building looks like after 275 years of Newport weather. Most houses on the Hill are inside the local historic district, so exterior repairs go through a review before they start.
Call (401) 560-5802 and say which wall the water is coming through and whether the cellar is stone. An independent local water damage provider serving Historic Hill takes the call.
Services Available in Historic Hill
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.