Water Damage Restoration in Kay-Catherine, RI

Kay-Catherine is the neighborhood of Victorian summer cottages north of Bellevue Avenue between Broadway and Easton's Pond, named for Kay Street and Catherine Street and mapped as the Kay Street, Catherine Street, and Old Beach Road historic district. The houses went up from the 1840s through the 1890s in Stick, Shingle, and Queen Anne styles, with wraparound porches, steep slate or shingle roofs, and full stone cellars, and most have been year-round homes for a century.

These are complicated roofs. Turrets, dormers, and valleys meet in a dozen places on one house, and each meeting is a place for a nor'easter to get in or for ice to dam in February. The plaster below is original and worth keeping. Down in the cellar, the stone lets in groundwater on the low blocks toward Easton's Pond, where the neighborhood drains toward the reservoir.

This site puts Kay-Catherine homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider who reads a Victorian attic before touching the ceiling.

Kay-Catherine water damage under a roof with a dozen valleys

A leak at a dormer or a valley, or an ice dam at a shaded eave, is roof leak and ice dam water damage. The stained parlor ceiling below it is a ceiling water damage repair. A radiator line that split in a corner the steam never quite reached is burst pipe water damage.

An 1864 house that became the art museum

At the corner of Bellevue and Old Beach Road, the Newport Art Museum occupies the Griswold House, a Stick-style summer cottage from 1864 that shows what the neighborhood's roofs looked like when they were new. Houses inside the district need a historic review for exterior repairs, including new slates.

Call (401) 560-5802 and say where the stain is and whether the ceiling is plaster. An independent local water damage provider serving Kay-Catherine takes it from there.